All About Seuss! Digital Story

All About Seuss! from Abbey Menard on Vimeo.

Here is my digital story I was FINALLY able to upload.  I created this video and showed it to my students to honor and celebrate Dr. Seuss for Read Across America Day.

Literacy Project

Here is the link to my literacy project.  I used an iPad app called StoryKit to launch our new unit on opinion/persuasive writing.  We worked on the project as a class.  Each student chose a kind of shoe they believed to be the best; sneakers, boots or flip flops.  Each student then drew a picture of their opinion and gave a reason to match.  The students wrote their own "scripts" which they recorded to go along with their picture.  Each student had their own page.  While we did go over some specific vocabulary, much of this activity was also used as a pre-assessment.  This is app is not only awesome because its free, but I was also able to email our work to parents.  The students and I really enjoyed this, and I found it very user friendly.  I will definitely be finding more opportunities to use this app again!

Digital Song Stories!

Found some great digital "song stories" on youtube from havefunteaching.com Check this one out on skip conting by 10's. My first graders would totally love this!  If you search youtube, you'll find plenty more!

Great to use for random motor breaks throughout the day without feeling guilty too!

What Makes for an Awesome Digital Story?!

Here's a quick video on the 7 elements of a powerful digital story.  It makes me rethink my definition of a digital story and what actually qualifies as a digital story.  Any thoughts?

Digital storytelling- A new adeventure

Digital storytelling is definietly something I would like to try out with the students in my classroom.  So far I have found a bunch of iPad apps that are great for students to use, but am wondering what would be the best way to implement this using laptop computers.

Here is a link to FREE digital storytelling tools/resources.