TIE BLOG 2

The students had a ton of fun doing the activity. They really enjoyed inferring about each piece of evidence and working as a group. I told the class at the beginning of the lesson that we would be recording on the IPAD for our voicethread. I also informed them that I would be looking for two students from each group that were making the right descisions to come and record. The students seem to take it as a challenge and tried really hard to stay on task so they could be the ones to record. I havent showed them the full finished voice thread yet but I cannot wait to see their faces when they see it.

What worked well:
The students really enjoyed recording on the IPAD because alot of the students had not been able to use a IPAD before. They really did good with recording on their own and were doing a great job of going in and rerecording if they thought they messed up. Having the students read over what they were going to read a couple of times before recording seemed to help them not be so nervous. I really liked using the IPAD because I was able to upload the pictures right then and there.

What I would change for next time:
I wish I would have had what they need to say written out before they recorded so I was not rewriting it for every group.  Next time I want to try it on multiple computers so that the students will be able to record at the same time, instead of one group at a time.

Here is the finished voicethread that my 1st graders did:

Full Screen Voice Thread

Your Challenge:

1. How would you enhance this voicethread interactive activity through vertical or horizontal spiraling curriculum?

2. Could we use parts of the documents that we have to create another voicethread?


While I was looking through my class mates different voicethread I stopped at three to comment on their  blogs. Laura's voicethread came out so cute and I liked how she involved all her students in some way.