Although there are thousands of apps on itunes, there are not many apps that are both appropriate and follow our curriculum. I have sent many hours looking for apps that students can use. It was well worth the effort when I see the students and the ipods. The apps are organized on the ipods by content area or because they are similiar. There is a page for letter recognition, songs, math, puzzles, misc etc. This helps teachers guide students to a page during the different instructional periods. They are a hit!!

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This is my first attempt at using imovie. Ms Donalson filmed her pumpkin lesson using the flip video camer. We decided to try and down load it to the ipods. Since it was 24 minutes long I wanted to see how difficult it would be to edit it on imovie. Can't say it was complicated, but I will admit that it took me four hours one night to get a final product. The final product included adding music and titles. I was excited about how it turned out and couldn't wait to take it to school do down load it to the ipods. This would be the first video students would watch on the ipod. They took it like fish to water! Ms. Donalson has promised to film them watching the video and post it.
Posting the video on the blog was not as easy as the other videos I posted since it was larger that 100MG and it wouldn't load. I went to the Apple store and had a tutoring session. We tried saving it as "tiny" but that was to fuzzy so we tried "mobile". That is what you see below. Next step is to have the teachers try using imovie and of course my ultimate goal is to have the kids use imovie.

Flipvideos in classrooms

Teachers are using their flipvideo cameras in the classrooms to record students working in different centers. Ms. Donalson was able to record a student at the reading center. This was taken only a few weeks into the new school year. The video demonstrates how quickly students begin to demonstrate reading behaviors. We love our flipcameras!!

The flipvideo cameras have allowed us to easily capture what we are going at Panda Path. They were very easy to learn how to operate. This is the first time I post a video to the web. After a few false starts I was able to figure it out. I also plan to down load this video to the ipods for students to view.

Animal homes

Kids are learning about some animal homes.  They are exploring the environment around the school to find some creatures like ants, birds.  Using the flip cameras the students enjoy this field investigation.  They took a video about trees, ants, plants.  The next step is to learn how to use the macBook to observe their wonderful job.

macs are fun!

It was a good session after school today, the macs are great, I see everyone has left Twitter-style snippets here so I'm going to save the rambling for another page.

Glad to be here, looking forward to this year, very encouraging to have others around with this level of enthusiasm!

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