The Second Grade Wildlife Experience

My class and all of Kemp's primary students got to visit the Wildlife Experience in Parker, CO. As part of our project we learned some vocabulary prior to going, practiced documenting with video and still cameras, then I set the students loose in teams at the Wildlife Experience to learn and photograph the parts they were most interested in so that we could create our PowerPoint presentations.
We found some exhibits with QR smart barcodes and phone in features that we explored only superficially given time constraints. I imagine a future in which students in the classroom go to their "Centers" with a mobile device and scan the barcode on the table for the center activity.
Anyway, we have been practicing with students building files in Smart Notebook which has been a lot of fun. We decided to use the Smart Notebook export to Powerpoint feature for our powerpoints. It is definitely easier for my second graders than making slides in Powerpoint. One draw back as you can see in the attached Slideshares of our presentations is that when you convert files you get some strange font size changes. We messed around with it for a while trying to fix it. Ultimately by the last Powerpoint we found that if we took a screen capture of the page we had built in Smart Notebook and then deleted the original page it uploaded all the content as an image.

Wild 1

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Wild 2

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Wild 3

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153 Educational Uses for the iPod

I’ve used my iPod to provide PowerPoints for my students. It makes for a great flash card tool. Great for first grade since I have a couple of students who need more help with sight words. I found this article on Yahoo tech which points to a couple of other educational resources (Online Education Database and Kottke.org) and I thought I'd share it:

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/raskin/18019

The sites they mention are:

http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/100-ways-to-use-your-ipod-to-learn-and-study-better and

http://www.kottke.org/plus/50-ways-ipod/

This link is for some really cool podcasts on Smartboards:

http://pdtogo.com/smart/ This is a cool link too. This is one I use for keeping up on my Spanish. It's a series of free podcasts (costs if you want the transcript) called NotesInSpanish:

http://www.notesinspanish.com/ Its a fun way to learn on the go. Other languages resources from OpenCulture:

http://www.oculture.com/2006/10/foreign_languag.html -sadly there is nothing under Icelandic languages.This site has tons of resources for podcasting:

http://www.podcasting-tools.com/
Okay so that's more like 154 resources.So how are you using your iPod?


crossposted on http://principianteglobal.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html
Photo from Louder: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hermida/390819852/