Voice Thread Mission Accomplished! :)
After having to rethink of a different lesson and having to change a few things, I have finally finished using Voice Thread with my students.
I was not too sure how it would all play out, I knew my PreK class would be capable of doing it, I just was not sure how it would all be manageable. Of course my students needed instruction the whole time. I had the students in groups, and only used a few students to use the doodle feature on Voice Thread. I was thinking of recording the students but they were too shy and would not say anything so I had to take that off. While a few of the students worked on Voice Thread, I had the other students in their groups work on separate activities which of course kept them entertained and learning at the same time but not only that many times they would want to finish quickly and would ask if they can work on Voice Thread as well. Unfortunately, due to time I was not able to use a lot of students. I noticed they would take their time even if they were just doodling.
Overall, I think Voice Thread was a neat experience for my students as well as for myself. My students were very interested on what they were doing and I could tell they were enjoying it very much.
Here is the end product! :)
How would you be able to incorporate Voice Thread in a more efficient way in a PreK classroom?
Where you able to use Voice Thread with all students, if so how did you do it with time management?
I enjoyed watching your VoiceThread! It's very interesting to see how preK works with technology. I bet they had fun! And as for your questions:
ReplyDeleteThat is pretty tough to think of ways to incorporate VoiceThread into preK, I think I would use it as a review for lessons that were just taught. It would probably be hard to introduce a lesson that way, I like how you did it!
I was able to get all my students to participate, but that was just because it was during their centers time. whenever they rotated to the computers, they would go participate.
Props for successfully incorporating VoiceThread into preK!!
Awesome Job Jahazia! Your voicethread looked really fun and interesting. You did a great job in doing a voicethread with math. I know it was a challenge for us because we both had pre-k classes where some of the kids can't read or write yet...but we were able to work with them and accomplish great voicethreads!
ReplyDeleteYou used the IDs well, Jahazia. The questions you posed, however, are closed-ended. Once one student answered the question, the need for more input from other students was over. Open-ended questions were stressed to allow a greater degree of higher-level thinking skills and collaborative interaction among students.
ReplyDeletePerhaps have a single slide with the ordinal numbers and then asking students to model placement of ordinal numbers would have been better. For example, students could have simply used audio response or video response to explain and possibly exemplify (video) their placement of four different items while describing each position placement.