Thing 10

I am very much an amature with this Voicethread thing...

I created a powerpoint http://screencast.com/t/22LCae0T6 to import into Voicethread, and it really didn't work the way I thought it would.  I had music and animation in the powerpoint, but it is all lost in Voicethread.  Also, one of the fractions did not copy well and the graphs are really wacky!  I have to play around more to get this figured out... but I have a start. http://voicethread.com/share/1569353/ 

I think in my math classroom I would most likely be using this type of digital story telling to teach a lesson that I am not able to do in person.  I also know that it would be very helpful for those kids that are absent on any given day. 

I'm also thinking it would be fun, but time consuming for the kids to take a lesson and creat a digital story of their own to teach the class.  I have done this without the digital piece before and it's great for the kids, but takes at least twice as long to get through.

After talking with my son, a high school sophomore about this idea, he suggested it would be a great extra credit assignment!  I think I may just offer that for the end of this coming marking period.  I will have to look through the suggested rubrics for something I can follow to base a score on.  As a math teacher, most things are pretty black and white.  The more "stories" that I can collect the better!  I will certainly be saving all that get turned in to me and will use and or post the ones that I think would be helpful for other students and teachers.  I look forward to the great works my student will hand in!