1- Well, originally my project was to create a Voicethread. I’ve been working with my grade 12s to produce a Voicethread about Cochrane and its different shops. Well, it’s just about finished (it has taken forever!) We still have a few students to add. Hopefully, we will finish this week. I had to delete another Voicethread because I forgot to get permission (Ooops!) to post pictures of the students. I was unable to get a hold of the parents before Easter Break. Oh, well. Have a look at what we’ve done so far on the Cochrane Voicethread.
2- The next project was to use a blog in my English classes. I’ve got a few more students subscribed to “Voices of Cochrane”. I have asked that all journal entries be done on the computer. I only have one student who does not want to post his journal entries. That’s fine. I’m hoping the more I get them to use it, the more they will want to use it.
3- I’ve created a staff wiki. Marlene stated that her project was to create a staff wiki. What a great idea. I put together some Screencast Tutorials for Gradebook for my teachers. I will eventually be doing the same for SIRS. I have invited our Learning Council to be members and I hope we will use it to communicate and post relevant information for our staff. I know I will!
4- My grade 9 students completed a project on ComicLife (Mac). I haven’t figured out how to upload it to the student blog (Voices of Cochrane). Hopefully, I will figure that out by the end of the week. If not, I will produce a Voicethread that will show everyone what they produced. I might have to contact Kyle for assistance since he is a wizard on a Mac.
That’s it for now.
Shaun Loeppky said,
March 31, 2008 at 2:08 pm
I think I have mentioned this before, but your screencast tutorial was the final inspiration to create a series of screencasts for my project. Question…did you approach your staff if they would be interested in the development of this project? If you mentioned this in a previous blog post, I apologize. Reading these blogs as of late has contributed to much information overload!
Corey Terry said,
April 1, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Awesome job the voice thread! I would like to try it sometime, was it hard to set up? I think your blog work is incredible and very tenacious! You should be proud of what you put together profiling Cochrane, what a great school.
Kimberly Brown said,
April 6, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Have you used the RBE webfiles? You can take files, podcasts etc from your computer and upload to the RBE site and get a URL. I don’t see why you couldn’t use it with ComicLife. Email Marnie and she should be able to help.
Kimberly Brown said,
April 6, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Great VoiceThread!