Thursday, March 19, 2015

21st century Literacy

Technology enables students read and write with more creativity. In my class of Instructional Technology this week, my students are required to create their own virtual classes on Edmodo.
The classes are created based on lesson plan with google doc, outline with cacoo.com, presentation with voki.com as an audio introduction and slides with powtoon/prezi/google slides/storybird, self-designed assessment and a survey of the class teaching for students with google form.

The outline created with cacoo.com is new introduced recently. Students had made a couple outline/diagram with it last week, the attached is one example:


Another fresh product is the audio introduction with voki:



users can select characters from available options, change backgrounds and edit words with typing or speaking through microphone. For the spoken language, there are many options of languages, English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean so on and so forth, besides the various languages, users can also choose accents and gender of speakers. 

5 comments:

  1. Nan, you are doing some amazing things with technology in your class! Thank you for sharing these resources in your blog and in class.

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  2. oh, what is voki! how does it different with educrations! I have the feeling that i am overwhelmed by all these apps and websites and definitely would cling to a few!

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  3. oh, what is voki! how does it different with educrations! I have the feeling that i am overwhelmed by all these apps and websites and definitely would cling to a few!

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  4. Thank you for introducing me to the Voki app. I know my students would really enjoy using it! I will have to figure out a way to integrate it into the curriculum.

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  5. I really liked your graphic organizer. Thanks for showing me that app. I would like to use it with some of my 4th graders next year as a pre-writing activity.

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