tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:17:50 +0000http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Lisa)Blogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-3383551359392863676Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:37:00 +00002010-12-14T20:50:25.932-06:00I meant to post this earlier when I gave my description about a project I used to do with my seventh graders. I used to ahve the students work in teams to create a radio show. One option that the students had as a segment to produce was that of interview/talk show. Students could write questions, interview someone in the school and record it for inclusion in the radio show. Here is a rubric http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-rubric.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-895898676666356095Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:17:00 +00002010-12-14T20:31:28.133-06:00I think that requiring students to do critiquing of websites is a really important thing to do because, for whatever reason, kids seem to think that whatever is on the web is good. They often fail to look into design features, use of space, and reliability. In college I had to do a big project evaluating five different websites and I found the critiquing process so valuable and eye opening that Ihttp://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/website-evaluation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-8031841628990907183Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:25:00 +00002010-12-14T04:25:36.027-06:00Web 2.0 Accessibility Issues for the Visually ImpairedWhen we think about accessibility we often don’t consider is, in this rapidly changing technological world that we live in, which seems to rely heavily on web 2.0 tools for bridging our global community, how this affects those with disabilities. Why should we think about accessibility on the web?Accessibility is important to consider whether http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/final-final.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-5222916885403468840Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:08:00 +00002010-12-14T04:02:00.791-06:00Below are links to my presentations for this class. I guess my VoiceThread got too long and I had to split it... at least I think that is what happened.http://voicethread.com/share/1596170/http://voicethread.com/share/1596340/http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/finally-final-project.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-6653779278588897024Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:56:00 +00002010-12-06T22:21:51.659-06:00Blog/Ning post: Treating your blog as a portfolio, review back over your blog posts and reflect on your own learning/changes in the course: what have you learned? how have you changed? what more do you still need to learn? It has been quite a semester and I must say that I have learned a lot over the course of the semester. First, I think I came into the course viewing digital writing tools as a http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-as-portfolio-semester-in-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-2740165161419044925Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:32:00 +00002010-11-27T21:39:39.963-06:00I have been a user of PowerPoint presentations as a teacher for the history of my teaching career, not because I like them as a learner myself, but out of necessity to accommodate the visual learners in my classroom. At first I needed A LOT of help even putting together a simple PowerPoint. It was comical really. Most of my help came in the form of eager advice tidbits from my seventh graders. I http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/11/check-out-this-powerpoint.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-3860460892215059421Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:38:00 +00002010-11-23T22:52:19.887-06:00I find the melding of images and poetry to be fascinating. I enjoyed viewing the work of Thom Swiss because one could "read" his poetry numerous times and never have the same outcome. My poem is nothing like that, very linear because I lack the technical know-how to create something interactive, but I think it would be neat to learn how to do something like that. I see the use of digital poetry http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/11/digital-poetry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-6854939506180389841Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:03:00 +00002010-11-22T18:14:14.743-06:00Using Comic Life I created the following comic strip about our family's Christmas 2009 experience. I kid you not, our entire family came down with the flu within about 3 minutes of one another and were up the entire night before Christmas doing laundry and cleaning up after sick kids. Needless to say, Christmas was not very jolly at our house last year. We are keeping our fingers crossed that http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/11/comic-about-non-comical-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-6254276840044285100Tue, 09 Nov 2010 02:40:00 +00002010-11-08T20:59:36.824-06:00Hi everyone,Okay, so finally I figured out my whole podcast issue. You can listen to the podcast at:http://teachermomof4.podomatic.com/entry/2010-11-08T18_35_51-08_00As for this week's assignment, incorporating the use of podcasts in the classroom, I thought about this quite a bit. Here are some things that I thought would be good ways to use podcasting.-For a few years I had the kids create a http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-promise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-6510678869695126791Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:11:00 +00002010-11-02T18:11:57.599-05:00Hi there!!I know you were waiting anxiously to hear my first podcast. Here it is!!! Visit me on PodOmatic!http://teachermomof4.podomatic.com/http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-know-you-were-waiting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-7762348997156674348Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:15:00 +00002010-11-01T21:20:06.348-05:00So I really liked making my podcast. Once again, I struggled with choosing a topic, but once I did, I felt really comfortable. I took up the topic of book recommendations. I LOVE talking to people and finding out what they are reading/have read/would recommend, both for themselves and for children. So my podcast was called "Love Books?" and it highlighted four books that we hold in our library athttp://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/11/podcast.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-129666908373127529Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:08:00 +00002010-11-01T21:15:11.884-05:00So for this week's adventure I explored iMovie. I really struggled with a topic for a movie because I'm not in a classroom (besides to observe practicum students) and no other part of my own life is that exciting that it is worthy of a movie. I wanted the movie to serve a purpose as well. My son was just diagnosed with a Pervasive Developmental Disorder about two weeks ago. For those who may not http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/11/imovie-and-podcasting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-3668251941997355752Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:44:00 +00002010-10-26T14:58:45.976-05:00I didn't realize that there were some questions that I should have included in my initial post on role play so here are my responses for those:1. What were some things that you did to create your role through use of language, information in/images used for your bio?I played the role of a private school administrator. For me, I made language choices that would be things that I could imagine our http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-thought-id-say-more.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-2061486851690206851Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:50:00 +00002010-10-19T17:53:49.928-05:00After our role play activity in class I have a lot of thoughts on using this in the classroom. I think there is a lot of potential, especially for students who may not speak up in a face-to-face debate, students like me. It is quite a bit easier (in some ways) to take on a role that you may not necessarily agree with and push an agenda associated with that role because everyone knows everyone is http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/10/online-role-play.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-234874088544174306Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:19:00 +00002010-10-08T21:24:57.067-05:00A few years ago I tried using a wiki in my classroom with my students related to the Holocaust. It didn't work, not because the kids weren't capable of adding content, but because the limited access to computers required that all of the students were posting at the same time in our school's computer lab. Because of the synchronous posting, many posts didn't show up and it became a frustrating http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/10/wiki-ing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-7275332708822485430Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:28:00 +00002010-10-04T22:31:24.451-05:00For my next trick... no, just kidding. This class does make me feel like a magician of sorts realizing all of the cool things that can be done with all of the free technology tools that are out there on the web. This week's endeavor, the voice thread story. I struggled to choose a topic. I was just going to talk about how awesome my kids are, and though to me that would be a completely fulfillinghttp://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-way-of-telling-story.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-2958112484698770746Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:47:00 +00002010-09-28T12:54:37.083-05:00Whom do you think is the audience for this vlog and, in terms of “visual rhetoric,” what aspects of the vlog are designed to appeal to this audience? What video/editing techniques are employed in this vlog post and how effective are they?I had an opportunity to view the vlog "A Girl Like Me" which featured female teens talking about race and identity. I chose this video because I am extremely http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/09/girl-like-me-vlog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-1967408279424796611Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:13:00 +00002010-09-27T20:20:54.312-05:00Today I took the next big step in digital media exploration. I created a vlog. This experience for me became a family affair because, to be fair to my children, I can't do much of anything without them being far from my mind... or in this case, the screen. So, sit back, relax, and get ready to meet me and the real stars of my Vlog.And, while we're in the mood of sharing videos, here's a video http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/09/from-blog-to-vlog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-7297097632020102967Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:51:00 +00002010-09-20T21:17:02.272-05:00Scarcely three weeks into this course on the myriad of options available for the teaching of digital writing and my head is already spinning. It is hard to fathom what the teaching of English will look like in ten years, especially when most of what we are learning in this class wasn't even on the radar of my professor for two Educational Media and Technology courses eight years ago. While all ofhttp://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/09/so-many-choices.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-8704897855750117156Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:17:00 +00002010-09-14T18:20:26.084-05:00Here's a video that I think speaks volumes about why embracing the use of not just digital writing tools, but technology in general is essential to the education of our children. They need this!!!http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/09/we-need-to-learn-this-stuff.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642553344320242.post-8499220965218773293Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:07:00 +00002010-08-26T20:46:53.970-05:00When thinking about the question, "how have I/could I use blogs in my everyday life?" at first I thought, I am not a blogger. It didn't take me long to realize, however, that I indeed am a blogger and have been actively doing so for the past three years. In January of 2007 my second child was born prematurely. Instead of bringing home a baby after a few short days in the hospital, our family was http://idigdigitalwriting.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-initial-thoughts-on-blogs-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa)1