Resources

I was looking through Pinterest today and found this site. The site seems like it is a similar idea to Pinterest, but this particular section has lots of tips and helpful articles/tools for educators on how to incorporate technology, such as ipads, into the classroom. It especially looks at using technology when teaching students with learning disabilities. Hope some of you get a chance to search through it and find some great tools too!

Teach Task 6, Part 2: ds106

The second tool I looked at after Alan Levine's session was ds106. I thought this was a fun site to use. It was pretty easy to navigate around and the assignments were interesting and fun to do as well.

The site would be fun to do with different grades, but it might not be as easy for younger students. The younger students may need more assistance, so either you need to do it with only a few students at once or have some older students in to help. Older students would easily be able to do these assignments on their own. It would be fun to do art projects and have students pick one of the visual assignments then have it printed. It would also be fun for them to experiment with the different types of assignments and the tools that they could use for them.

Here is the description for the first assignment I tried out.

• Have you ever heard and song and a particular lyric stood out to you right away?  I think all of us have had the feeling at least once.  For this assignment use one of those lyrics that stood out to you and make it into a visual.  Use some kind of background that represents the lyric and place the lyrics over it in some way.  Be creative! But make sure that your visual product evokes the same kind feeling that the lyric of the song does.

Here is what I came up with!

And the instructions for the second assignment:

• Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green apple on a table. Think of the Girl in the red dress from Schindler's List.
  
  You can do this in a number of ways with photo editing software or using mobile apps. The answer lies in the Google

Here's what I came up with for this one!

Tech Task 6, Part 1: Five Card Flickr

After listening to Alan Levine's session from my Ecmp class on Wednesday, I took a look at some of the story telling/ story making devices he shared with us. The first site I looked at was Five Card Flickr. I though the site was really to use and pretty much any age could do this. It is very straight forward and allows for you to create a story in your own mind. The best part is that you can have so many different stories with the same five pictures.

This would be a great tool to use with any grade level. It would be fun to see what students would come up with for stories. You could either create the sequence of the pictures and allow each student to tell their own story or you could allow students to pick their own 5 pictures and create a story to them.

Here are the two links to the stories I created.

http://5card.cogdogblog.com//show.php?id=32086

http://5card.cogdogblog.com//show.php?id=32087

Stay tuned for part 2!

Fight against cancer

Last night was the Lumsden Relay for Life. So many people showed up from various towns and fundraising teams for the event. It was an awesome night full of great entertainment for an amazing reason. So much money was made to help find a cure for various kinds of cancer.

The Lumsden Elementary School teachers had their own team and area set up. I think it was a great idea for the school to put in a fundraising team and support the cause. Awesome job LES!