Today was our first unscheduled meeting of computers and check. I had my weeks confused I'll still meet next week too but today it was just myself Kevin and Brooke. Screencast-o-matic
Myself and some of the other art teachers have been looking at how to record our lessons for when we have substitute. Kevin has been using this in his class for his app development elective.
Using screencast-o-matic students are able to learn at their own pace by listening to Kevin instructions while watching what he's doing on the screen and they're able to pause playback whatever they need until they understand.
This was a very simple looking program to use it's downloadable or you can use it online and it gives you options but is very straightforward I think it's definitely something I'll play with.
Google Docs and Read/Write Google
In read/Write, students are able to use the playback feature to listen to their writing . This often helps the student identify where they are missing words missing punctuation, or have awkward sentences. They have almost all the features here as in read write gold . Also in Google Docs, are the teacher I can go in and comment, edit, suggest and leave voice notes for a student. Students have told me this is very helpful and they've noticed or I've noticed their quality of writing vastly improve.
Audible
Brooke shared about audible, available through Amazon. It is all audio books and a huge benefit to students who have difficulty with novel reading. Brooke is able to download the book for the student and during class they can listen to the novel as they follow along reading. This way they're able to hear the tone and inflection while following along with their fingers . it's $15 for a monthly subscription or you have to pay per book it's a good thing to suggest to parents.
Dictation
Another great feature through Google is the dictation app I just looked it up and tried it. This is my first try. I've done this entire blog entry simply by talking none of it was typed it's found in the Google app store. My new best friend for comment writing!
Note that the Read/Write app for Google Docs is actually an app for /Chrome/, and we did not find a corresponding app for Firefox. But it attaches to Chrome pretty easily and seems to provide full-featured RWG.
ReplyDeleteI also mentioned today how I am beginning life without H: drive and Horizon View. I'm finding my planning time at home to be so much less of an ordeal already. I hope to share about this soon.
ReplyDeleteMichelle Huynh has also shared with me that the calgary public library also has a tone of audio book available online. All you need is a membership and they are free. :)
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