Collaborative Project between
2nd grade general ed., ELL and Special Education teachers – 2nd
grade Animal Research
Together the adults met to discuss how we were going to
teach it and the process involved. We started by using keynote presentation to
introduce the project to the students. Carlie and Nan (from class) came in to
help us with the special education students. The students were paired with an
adult to help them search for pictures and record their report into Shadow
Puppet.
We learned that you need to play around with the app until
you are comfortable with it. You also need a quiet place to record their voice,
because it picks up a lot background noises. It is so sensitive that it even
picked up the noise of turning the paper. Students were very excited about it
and enjoyed presenting it to their peers. Paula and I also had to problem solve
how to set up email on the iPads we were using and how to share it via email. We
found it frustrating that if a mistake was made while recording you had to redo
the entire recording again.
As we regrouped and talked about the final project we
discussed how next time we would like the students to reflect on one another’s
work and give them feedback. We decided
that we would have the students practice reading it over and over again before
recording it. This would save time in the end in the event that we had to redo
the recording piece over and over again. This was a great way for students to
share their presentation without having to speak in front of a large group of
students.
I would love to share this and create a Shadow Puppet with my students during research next year! Great idea!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a great project for kiddos! I agree that you do have to feel comfortable with an app before using it with kiddos. I, too, have felt the frustration of having to start over when recording (Educreations). Great work!
ReplyDeleteI used Puppet EDU and learned the exact same things! Lots of background noise and they need to practice before reading it. It was also challenging for students to decide which sentence to change their picture at. Overall, I enjoyed it and plan to use Puppet EDU in the future. I had issues with setting up email on the iPads I used, so I ended up putting google sheets app on and pasting all of the links into one document. I'm sure there's a better way to do this, but that's how I made it work! Love that you were able to collaborate with so many teachers!
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