Conference Screencasts

We are having a lot of fun in school, but our favorite thing so far is creating our conference screencasts.  For our conference screencasts, we are using iPads and an app called Explain Everything.  It is a really cool app!  You can work on your project, and then save it to work on later.  The app costs $3.00, but it was worth it!

We had to do a storyboard and write a script before we got to work on the iPads.  Once Ms. Diem approved our script, we got to work on the iPad to create the presentation.  We had to take pictures and explain how to do things.  It was a lot of work, because sometimes we had to record a slide a few times!

The conference screencasts are to show our parents at conferences.  They were really fun to make!

By Gavin and Shay

Space Podcasts!

The 4th graders in Ms. Diem's class made podcasts about space.  We learned a lot about space.  We enjoyed drawing our slides in Pixie.  The past part was it felt like we were going up into space!

You can watch our Space Podcasts by clicking HERE.

A new beginning!

The idea for this blog came to me in the wee hours of the morning, when I'd much preferred to have still been in a deep cycle of REM sleep. But since that wasn't the case, I'm glad that this blog popped in, as it made it slightly easier to be awake so early on a Saturday morning.

This blog is going to be an attempt at showcasing ways to integrate technology into the ever-changing elementary school classroom. The first project to go public is being dubbed "TweetWrite" as I attempt to introduce my fourth graders to the art of tweeting.

While this may or may not be a successful experience, the key word is experience. We can all learn loads from experiences- positive and negative. In fact, as Thomas Edison said, "I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." Well, we're going to hold that as our motto of the moment and see how much we can learn in the process!

Enjoy!
Ms. Diem