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Project 1: Tool Box 1-4 1. Exploring Microsoft Word Documents: A quick table was created to show how to scheduled reading groups easier. A title was created for the reading chart using word art to make it more eye appealing. Lastly, a pie chart was created to show how much time is spent in a day on curriculum areas. Using MS Word makes organization easier, more creative looking and students can also use the program for projects of their own. 2. Puzzle Maker: Puzzle Maker was designed for 5th grade math. Two objectives for this crossword puzzle is to help learn and memorize hard to remember geometry vocabulary terms, and to learn the correct spelling of the terms. This type of media can be used in the classroom by encouraging students to use this program to help with spelling words each week. 3. Digital Story: This was a collaboration of photographs I personally took. The subject is Science and the theme is the seasons. The images are of different parts of nature throughout the seasons. This Digital Story can be used to for any grade level in elementary education. Ways this type of media can be used in the classroom is endless. Two ideas students can use this media are by taking pictures of the steps they took to complete a science. They can also tell a story about their life. 4. A Storybord was created to use for 1-3rd grade literacy. Students can read the story created about Father's Day. In the story, the reader learn that sometime we dream big when we want to so something special for others (our father in this story). In the end of the story the reader learns that even though it is exciting to dream big, it is more practical and very appreciated by the receiver when we plan things that are really possible. This media can be used to create stories on topics the teacher wants to use in the classroom. Students can also create their own imagination to write stories.

Project 3: Creating a Wiki Classroom Wiki Classroom: The Wiki Classroom was named: Expanded Classroom. It was designed for 4th and 5th grade classrooms. The purpose is to encourage students to use Web 2.0 and the great programs that wiki provides to use literacy outside the typical lecture style of teaching. Students are assigned 2 projects. The first project, students are asked to go to the Scholastic online website. They are required to choose an article they found interesting to them. After reading the article, they will use the discussion tab wiki has available and begin a discussion about their article. They are required to pose a question and hold a conversation about their chosen article online with other classmates. The second assignment, students are required to go to Kids Notational Geographic and choose an animal from the list of images put into a slide show with information/facts about the animal. They then, choose an animal, any animal they want, and find 3-5 pictures, and 6 to 10 facts to create a Voicethread. In this assignment, students are experiencing and learning different types of digital stories, and ways of learning information using web 2.0. It also provides them with the know how to be creative with technology as well as science.

Project 4: Creating a Voice Thread The Voice Thread created was for 2-4th grade levels. The objectives are to learn about a what beavers eat, how they build their home, and what a beaver and its damn looks like. This type of media is to inspire the non traditional learning. It allows students to learn using technology and become interactive with what they are learning. The voice thread images were taken myself at two local parks in the area. This teaches students that this particular animal is common in our area and is something they can go see either in a class trip or with family or friends. A voice thread is a fairly easy program to create. Students can make their own using their own narration and pictures they research on any topic. This gets them using web 2.0 programs and more comfortable with technology.

Project 5: Creating a Movie using Movie Maker or iMovie Creators: Ju ﻿ lie Anderson Bakos, Hanna Stetler, Kathy Bernhardt Program: We began with Movie Maker because the three of us have PC computers in the districts we work in. We thought that using the program available to us would benefit us. We found that Movie Maker is not very friendly or compatible with any camera. We had to change over to iMovie, which was a breeze compared to the trouble encountered Movie Maker. Subject matter: Literacy -using/defining a vocabulary word. Lucubrate: to study hard late at night. Objectives: Learn new vocabulary and act out the skit using the word to show correct usage. This project was fun and exciting to create. We were able to be creative and silly while teaching a new word and its meaning by making it into a movie with scenes and lines. Students would be able to prepare a skit and make a movie as well. They would have fun writing a skit and taping each other. Students can make a movie on a social studies lesson by acting our a part of our history (3-6 grades), by acting out part of a story from a literacy book read (2-6 grades), or pretending they're an animal from a science lesson they're learning (k-1st grades). Students would learn from each other, learn technology, become more comfortable and confident with available programs, and be able to share their skills of creativeness, intelligence and technology with others.