Wednesday 18 March 2009

animoto

Having registered for animoto about two weeks ago I was really pleased when one teacher said that she would like to try creating some book trailers with a small group of Year 9 students. The students were thrilled with their results. We did feel that it would be very difficult to manage this activity with a class of 30 students!

Ray Mears trailer

Lemony Snicket trailer

Maria's trailer

Brandon's trailer

Book trailers

Saturday 14 March 2009

Using web 2.0

Success this week, or at least the seeds of it. A history teacher is going to use voicethread for a two lesson module on turning points of World War II. For the past 14ish years they have been using a prepared ppt with maps of Europe on to write 40 words about each turning point. This group are going to try doing a similar thing with voicethread.
I just hope the technology works on our pcs.