Lesson Planning

My partner and I have agreed to do a combined lesson on nursery rhymes for our book "Once Upon a Time". We already have the lesson half way done along with the assessment portions. It's all coming together very well. I'm very excited for our lesson and cant wait to present it to the class. We are going to incorporate the smart board into our lesson and I'm very excited yet nervous about using the smart board because I'm not used to it. But I'm open to new technologies and will have a lot of fun!

Final Day in the Lab

Ok today my partner and I are going to decide whether or not we are going to team teach our lesson. It sounds like fun and I'm looking forward to it.

My day in the Computer Lab

The time in the lab went by really fast. Although, I accomplished everythinhg on my to do list and more I would of really enjoyed more time. My partner and I created the five questions about the story to ask our students. We also came up with lesson plan ideas. I'm having so much fun with my lesson, I was getting carried away with all the things I wanted to do Dr. Luongo had to bring me back to reality. I'm focusing my lesson on fairytales. I personally love fairytales so I'm really looking forward to my lesson.

Questions

These are the questions I would ask my students about the stoty, "Once Upon a Time":

1. Where have you heard the title Once Upon a Time before?
2.Since the picture of the three little pigs and the wolf are on the cover how does the sory of the Three Little Pigs go?
3.Does anyone know what rhyming words are?
4. Can someone give me and example of two words that rhyme?
5. Can someone name some of the fairytale characters in the story?

Lesson Plan

Today my partner and I are going to come up with a few ideas to create our lesson plan on the book "Once Upon a Time". We have completed our podcast and are moving onto the next step. We will hopefully get a jump start on our lesson plan, and work together on ways to make it a creative educational experience for our students.

Post-Recording

Ok we have completed our recording, we recorded the story three times. We even added a picture to our podcast episode. It was very fun yet frustrating to record because we had to practice at which distance to hold the microphone so you could hear our voices loud and clear.We got the hang of it. And our podcast was successful.

Recording

Ok the sound effects atctually worked YAY!!!!!

Pre-recording

We have just selected two sound effects to add to our podcast. One is of a baby crying the other is of a wolf howling . We will see how well this works!

Pre-Recording

Rebecca and I are podcasting the book "Once Upon a Time" by John Prater. We have decided to read the book one page each. We are about to scan for words that can include sound effects, to try and incorporate sounds with our podcast, we will also search for pictures to add to our podcast.

Trial and Error in Podcasting

I'm feeling a bit frustrated because I had to switch computers because the first one is was on wasn't working, and it's extremely hot in this room. But I've noticed that podcasting is like Facebook which is cool. This was my little welcome speech to the world of podcasting: Hello, Welcome to our podcast. We are unsure of what we are doing. I hope you have patience enough to follow us. Enjoy your weekend. This is the URL to my podcast I'm still practcing so bare with me.

http://rebeccaandstacey.podomatic.com/entry/2009-09-18T07_27_12-07_00

Podcasting

Podcasting is a series of video or audio clips. It's a new medium that generates a new form of creativity. I would like to learn the basics of podcasting and how it works. I believe podcasting allows people to be creative which is a good thing it also allows for people to experiment with different forms of media. The drawbacks would be accessing the proper equipment, and getting them to work properly. But I look forward to podcasting it will be a first for me.