First grade students used a variety of Web 2.0 resources to create presentations addressing issues of integrity, virtue, and general uprightness of character. A wide variety of acceptable project outcomes were accepted that utilized the following Web 2.0 resources: Recite, Shadow Puppet, ABCYa Paint, and Padlet. Please feel free to explore the final presentations created by my students on our Padlet project page. Below you can find an embedded screencast discussing the project. In the event that you would like to view the screencast in another tab, click here: http://www.screencast.com/t/r5eAptxA. Additionally, to get a more in depth look at the project you can access the Prezi used in my screencast, a clip of a student working with Shadow Puppet and a clip of a student working with Recite and Padlet.
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12/7/2014 10:30:03 am
Adam, the projects look fantastic and I am amazed at how young these kids are and how easily they make use of the web 2.0 tools that we struggle with sometimes. The recite this website was cool and I would love to make some posters like that for my classroom or my gym. How much of the project would you say was done without help from an adult? You mentioned make sure you take enough time for the project, how many days and how much time per day was devoted to this? I love teaching character because you never know who might not ever get these lessons. I would love to see a way for the students to give real life examples of where they saw other students do the right thing, or have your students nominate a student of the week from another class to recognize good character and integrity, just a thought. Great project.
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Adam Meador
12/7/2014 12:14:57 pm
The students definitely took to Recite. They could work with that very easily. Getting Recites posted to the Padlet page required a lot of assistance. Posting the Shadow Puppet slideshows to the Padlet was too difficult. I did that for them. Unfortunately, due to a tight schedule I only devoted about two weeks to this project. I see classrooms on a cycle and I think 2-4 sessions as oppose to 1-2 would of been better. The students would've had more time to make more in depth Shadow Puppets. Thanks for the kind comments Brian!
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Kelli
12/7/2014 11:42:22 am
Adam,
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Adam Meador
12/7/2014 12:24:08 pm
You definitely need to put Shadow Puppet on your cart. It is a free app. When you download the app you get an online account as well. Here is mine: http://get-puppet.com/p/jW62w9s2fVU. It is super easy to get Shadow Puppets onto the web. It is just a couple of swipes and after a few times practicing, first graders could definitely handle uploading Shadow Puppets. Getting things onto Padlet with them was a challenge and I did my fair share of posting for them when they couldn't handle it. I typically discourage right-clicking. So copying and pasting was a brand new concept for them at this stage in the year in computer lab. I haven't really shared the Padlet with anyone outside of KSU. I have been thinking it would be fun to post some Recites to the school Twitter account. I think that would be pretty cool for parents to get a cool Recite tweet. lol! Thanks for the nice comments Kelli!
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Chris Rogers
12/8/2014 11:04:30 am
Adam,
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Claire
12/11/2014 10:34:41 am
Hi Adam,
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Nikolas Fleming
12/14/2014 09:34:31 pm
I enjoyed watching your presentation! Recite seems to be a fun tool to use with students and with the way your 1st grade students were able to use it, I definitely see it as a potential tool to use with my high school students.
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