ANY COUNTING CROWS FANS??????
IT IS BAYFEST THIS WEEK IN MY HOME TOWN AND COUNTING CROWS ARE COMING THURS. NIGHT, ONE OF MY FAVORITE BANDS CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THEM!!!!!
OH YEAH OUR LADY PEACE AND STONE TEMPLE PILOTS ARE COMING SAT. GOING TO SEE THEM AS WELL!!!!!! GOING TO BE A GREAT WEEKEND!

WE BROKE A WORLD RECORD.....

Last year our school and numerous other schools in our area were determined to break a world record. The world recored we were determined to break was having our students reading/listening to Robert Munsch at the same time for 40mins. The students also had to read the books in a specific order. So what I did was I went to the http://www.robertmunsch.com/storytime.cfm website and I played the stories in order on my smartboard so that all my students at once could listen and read the stories. They loved it and I have never seen my students be more enganged in a story like they were when it was on the smartboard.

Just a thought for all of you that have smartboards out there it is a great site and it doesn't matter how old your students are everyone at one point enjoys litening to a Robert Munsch book! Even I do.....lol

Cori Forbes

How I Made My PodCast

It took a really long time and a lot of patients to figure this out. I thought it would have been a lot easier but I will give you the steps on how I did it. Here it goes!!!

1. I recorded my voice with Audacity
2. Once I finished that I had to use another piece of software called "Switch" for Mac to make it an .mp3 file. I had to do this because Audacity would only save as a .WAV and that format is way to large to upload.
3. Next I researched how to post an audio file on a blog and I found out the hard way that blog spot does not have a gadget for it. So I searched and searched the internet till I found the HTML code which is " < embed src="audio file name" autostart="false" loop="false"/>.
4. The only downside to this html code is you have to create a website with your audio file posted on it. Luckily I have a friend that owns his own business and was willing to let me upload my .mp3 file to their website so I could point the html code there.
5. Lastly there is a gadget on blogspot called html/java script I added that, then went to the edit link and pasted the html code with the proper website source.
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Here is my Podcast!!!

I Made My Own Podcast WooHoo! This is my podcasting in education assignment.. hope you all enjoy it!!

If anyone has a simpler way please let me know because this way was very hard and took me a very long time to figure out

Here are some cool sites I found to help with digital audio and digital storytelling in education:

Screencasting you can watch one at weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/umlaut.html

Advantages for students learning different languages. They can hear their own dialogues and compare their voice to someone else’s.

Digital storytelling resources:
http://techteachers.com/digitalstorytelling.htm this is a great site with a ton of information

http://themoonlitroad.com this was a really cool site that tells you ghost stories

Ideas for Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum http://techteachers.com/digstory/ideas.htm


Digital storytelling introduction
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/

Examples of digital storytelling, I really liked the one on “Art cars” at this site you can go to all different topics and different areas of the curriculum. It is a really good site!
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/art.html

This is a digital cookbook
http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html

Information on how to use digital storytelling in the curriculum
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/02/02/digital-storytelling-curriculum/

This website has links to great music curriculum ideas
http://www.alexaholic.com/topsites/category/Top/Computers/Multimedia/Music_and_Audio/Software/Educational

Hope you enjoy them!

Podcasting in Education

This is an excellent on podcasting in the classroom you should all check it out!!



If video does not work....
Click this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL1bX1gepEc

Acceptable Use policy

Peter asked..... How many of you are familiar with your board's version of this policy? If a parent calls with concerns, can you respond accordingly? How would you deal with an offense?

This is the LKDSB Computer Policy. I can respond accordingly to the policy if there is ever any discretion. I would warn the student one time and then after that i would get them to sit at the back of the computer lab. Also in my classroom i let the students use the computers 2 times a month and if they brake the policy they will loose there computer time for the month.

http://www.lkdsb.net/program/vlearning/Acceptable%20Use%20of%20Computers.pdf

O Canada!

Happy Canada Day to all my classmates