Yesterday I used the document camera to ahve the kids share their annotations. For homework they had to do a close re-reading of 5 pages of their choice in Night. I had a volunteer start the discussion and then kids jumped up and added their comments with their own notes on the SmartBoard.
Problems to work out:
1) time to capture the pages--there must be a better way than the way I'm doing it--but I did have the kids re-read the passage that would be discussed while I captured the picture and saved it in the scratch pad--made them more prepared to discuss annotations
2) still working on how to get them into Smart Notebook pages--kids couldn't highlight and the 4 color pens on my Smart Board all kind look the same
3) pencil doesn't show up well. . . need to play with the settings to figure that out
Will be able to post these on website (upcoming. . . one day) so kids can see how others annotate their texts.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Starting a Blog
OK, so I'm starting this blog to see how it works. I eventually want to have this blog set up through my school website, but I can't seem to access my school website. Oh well. I'm curious to see how students use the blog and if it will be an effective way to assess what my students know and how much they understand. I don't want it to be graded, but I do want to see what they are thinking. We'll see. . .
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