My Principal was kind enough to excuse me from my Back to School night duties at Glenwood so I could attend my own kids' classrooms tonight. I did make a DVD of videos I put together at the end of last school year along with an explanatory hand-out (we teachers love us some hand outs, right?) and contact information in case any of the parents are interested in the World Language program at our school. I just set up a laptop on a desk and with help of the Media Specialist with whom I share an office, will show the DVD as parents are roaming the halls. I have no idea if anyone will even watch, and what they'll think if they do. Yipes.
I may post a couple examples of their work as Quicktime movies. I had actually used the Flip camera to tape them, then loaded all the .avi files into iMovie and made very simple movies for them to watch. The kids love to see themselves speaking, and it's good for them to hear. While I'm posting things, I think I'll post the link to the WL Departments Wiki that I administer. I also have some Voicethreads that the kids did last year that I think are cool. I'll post those, too.
Honestly haven't made a whole lot of progress with the Nokia. This week is killer for meetings for me. One thing after another every night. I can't keep away from Twitter though, so I did find some great blog resources. Follow @lthumann if you're into educational technology. She's a prolific tweeter (and I mean that in the best possible sense.) She posts a lot of great information.
Because of a class blog requirement as well as recent tweets from lthumann, I also keep thinking about blogs and wikis in the classroom for younger students and wish there were some way around the whole email issue. I know pbworks allows classroom accounts without having to have an email address...don't know of any blog applications (?) that do so. I like the idea of blog for younger kids because it is a little less "open" for lack of a better word.
Anyway, posting links then catching up on pesky emails.
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