1. In the new edition of The Reading Teacher it has an article about creating Wiki's within the classroom. I thought it sounded like a cool thing to do when researching and studying science topics like animals or history time periods. Does anyone have any prior experience with these or does anyone know anything about how this would work?
2. The comic strip maker web site that Heartland AEA had in their newsletter was www.makebeliefscomix.com. I am going to check it out since we do not have Comic Life and I love Chad's idea that he posted on this blogg.
3. We are doing a fun project in my class right now with Kid Pixs. We are studying communities and how a school is a lot like a community. We got into pairs or triads and chose a community worker within our school to interview regarding the job they do for our school. Examples would be the principal, custodian, lunch ladies, secretary, counselor and the nurse. We also had a group interview a teacher's associate. They they used Kid Pixs to make a slide presenting the information they learned about the job that their person does. We added pictures too. Next, we are going to invite the people we interviewed to view our slide show either by putting it on a drive that is available to the whole school to use or have them join us in our classroom. We are also going to share it with the other 2nd grade classrooms. It has turned out to be a really cool thing and I thought I would share it with all of you!
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Deb...I just got done playing around with that comic strip site you shared and I loved it! I liked the frog character and since we read a lot of Froggy books in first grade I could have my students make Froggy comic strips. Thank you so much for sharing that site because my school doesn't have comiclife either so this will be a great resource!
Wiki employs the concept of social networking.
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser.
Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage.
Like google doc, it can very good for a group to compose or work on a common project together under the direction of their teacher.
I am doing a research on how a French class here in ISU is using technology such as Wikis to learn French language and culture.
it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.
The first ever wiki site was created for the Portland Pattern Repository in 1995. That site now hosts tens of thousands of pages.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiDesignPrinciples
I think it is a great piece of technology. We can explore this together some day
Thanks for sharing all of these ideas and resources with us! I hope our 556 blogs do become mechanisms to share these types of ideas! I really love your Kid Pix idea - would you be able to show one example in our class sometime? Also, here is another online comic strip maker you might want to look at....
http://comiqs.com/ - doesn't look too bad.
Richmond has provided a great definition of a Wiki - it is very similar to a blog. Here's a free site where you can create your own wiki - Try it!
http://wiki.com/
Thanks for the great resource about making comics. I am going to have to try it to see if it will work with my project. The project is going slow, but the kids are enjoying it.
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