Been pretty tech busy this week. At home I've been stumbling as previously stated and trying to keep up with everyone's blogs and delicious and assorted quiktopics. There's so much I want to read and contribute to, so I'm trying to learn how to "dance" as Bette put it. So far...two left feet but I keep plugging. As I tell my students, practice makes almost perfect and that's plenty good enough. It's the process that counts. Right?
In school I have my kids doing things on Amimoto and they are amazing. We've had some great laughs and some great learning. I also have them reading into Garageband and listening to and gently critiquing each other. Since they are struggling readers I'm hoping this makes them more conscious of their fluency. They love doing it and always want to try again to make it sound better. It's also opened their eyes to the importance of punctuation in reading - something I have heretofore been unsuccessful in convincing them of. (Please pardon the dangling preposition. That sentence had me in knots.)
I also started a digital storytelling project with one group. May have bitten off a little too much here. They want to tell the history of the world in three minutes. Always a problem with young writers - choosing a small topic and writing in detail. They want to tell their whole life story rather than choose one small event, person, place, etc and really speak from the heart about their connection. Live and learn. I'll keep you posted.
I stumble on. Literally and figuratively. It's fun!
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