3 Comments on “Session 6”

1. Jayne Hanley Says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 7:25 am

   I attended the workshop lead by Peter Reynolds. He is the author of The Dot and Ish and many other favorite children books. He spoke about incorporating creativity, innovation, and six essentials into the classroom. I loved the idea of using a tablet for drawing at the computer center. We were also introduced to a great program called animation – ish. http://www.animationish.com/

2. msradden Says:
   November 2nd, 2009 at 5:44 am

   The Diigo and Voicethread workshop was interrupted by technical difficulties – it is tough to demonstrate an audio-based program when your speakers do not work! But the presenter went with the flow, and adjusted.
   Diigo is a plug into your web browser that allows you and your students to mark up and annotate and save clips from web pages. A teacher suggested that MCAS prep writing examples could be posted as a web page (or taken from the DESE site) and your 3rd graders could annotate it. I need to look into the tool some more myself to be convinced.
   I was mainly there to learn more about voicethread, and unfortunately because the Diigo part went longer than expected and the audio problems, I did not get a lot out of this session. Basically voicethread helps kids respond to reading through speaking, video, text or drawing. See ed.voicethread.com/help/manuals on how to get started.

3. Josh McGuire Says:
   November 8th, 2009 at 6:33 pm

   I went with Jane to this one as well. And everything she said I agree with. Instead of reprinting what she said I want to share one thing he said that really resonated with me. He was talking about how we are all artists and at one point he said he hated when adults say they can’t draw when they are drawing something for children and how disheartening this is for kids to hear because they are struggling with everything they do and while our attempts can be less than lifelike, calling them “bad” creates a precedent that children are struggling to compete with. I don’t know if I said that right, but it was one of those epiphanic moments that make a difference in the way I will talk to people for the rest of my life. trying to draw a straight line
   ps Jane won an original Reynolds print too!

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