In class today our group created a VoiceThread. In my group was myself, Carey, Mindy and Christina. Our topic was over "Life Coping Skills". The first slide was a picture of Carey and her dog the caption was "Get a Friend". Mindy, Christina and I commented on her picture with "text". The second picture was one I picked and it was a quote about what to do when times get stressfull. Some examples are Go for Long Walks, Take Long Baths, Count your Blessins and Just Let Go. There were three text comments on this picture. The third slide Mindy put up a picture of food that had smiley faces on them. The caption on this picture was "Smile", There were 3 text comments and I commented with a video. The last picture was another quote and there was one text comment.

I really enjoyed doing this VideoThread, it showed how fun doing these threads will be in the classroom. Here is our VoiceThread....

Technology Intergration Experience (TIE) Thoughts

I really enjoyed watchinng Courtney Barrington's voicethread. I could definetley do something like this in my first grade class. I liked that she had the children read their sentence about what they were thankful for. It gives the children a sense of ownership because they can come back and watch the voicethread and feel good about their work. I also liked that she didnt show the children's faces and just showed the picture they drew and the sentence they wrote. The other voicethread I watched was Mariselda Moreno's Exploring Bodies of Water. I really liked that she did her lesson in groups and the chidlren were all reading what they found out about the different types of water. None of the students feel left out when they all get to read together in a group. I also enjoyed that she would ask a question about what kind of body of water they were talking about and asked for an example of one. The students were to go into the voice thread and type in a example of a body of water. One thing I dont think I would do would be to add a video on the side of the main voicethread, I think I would of just kept it with the main picture of the body of water, the voices and the question.