Watching the way the groups used Kurzweil today to make activities accessible to their students for so many different types of activities and levels was really great! Nice job everyone! I hope we do have the chance to share some of our work to explore each other's ideas and topics more closely. I know that I had fun with the working hands-on like this and imagine our students will too. It reminded me that our students often learn as much from each other as they do from us, as we did today.
The value in the reading and writing task analysis that we did these past couple of weeks is evident when we see how many of these skills we take for granted. As teachers we are the successful learners of our childhood classrooms, and need to be reminded that even if we did struggle, most of these literacy skills are now pretty automatic. We may think we know how sophisticated the act of written expression is, especially as we explore literature and authors with our students, but seeing the list of skills and concepts on the charts we were handed out today really amazed me. What amazing brains we have! I have enjoyed seeing the Writing webs that have been posted in my classmates blogs showing many of these concepts and skills and how they are linked.
FYI If anyone is interested, the link for the youtube video downloader we used to show our video clips today is http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/
2 comments:
Thanks for posting the link for the Youtube downloader. It will be a really helpful tool. Everyone did a fantastic job on their presentations. The detail was great. It is really interesting to see the possibilities.
Sorry I missed this class Anisa. I heard that your information was very valuable when it came to figuring out how to include video into your presentation. I will definitely visit the website to learn more.
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