Podcasts for School Website

I had a great conversation with my principal before spring break about our school website which she has now put me and my colleague in charge of to maintain and organize. Woohoo! We had a discussion about the website and how it can be more user friendly for parents when presenting information on the website that they can have access to when needed in relation to parent meeting topics we have once a month during the school year. I brought up the idea of using podcasts and her reaction to the idea at first was inquisitive but interested, which I expected and so when the conversation continued with me explaining how it would work and benefit parents and teachers that cannot make those meetings by having access to an archive library of podcasts of the meetings for parents which can be access throughout website for the year. She really likes the idea of using podcasts and using technology to offer flexibility to access information about our school and programs to parents and anyone else who may use our website. So, it looks like we will be adding podcast to our school website!

Heartfelt Digital Video Assignment

Digital video is great for students to learn how to create stories, important messages, psas, with information and turn them into visual and audio presentations. I also believe that students benefit using digital video in relation to a lesson and activity to use for prior knowledge in order to make additional connection to the information in order to solve authentic problems. I had a student that passed away from cancer in the month of March and he was a great student and I enjoyed my three years with him so very much. The students and I decided to make a get well and missing memoir digital video for Ryan and the students really felt a great duty to make the video was awesome and why they wouldn’t. They made sure they took in all the information on how to use a flip cam and we all filmed and edited the video together. Even though the students were not aware that their peer Ryan journey was coming to they still felt a since of urgency and responsibility to ensure Ryan he missed and hope to see him soon. It was a great learning experience and heartfelt journey shared with my students that I will never forget.