Journal entry and Doodle Buddy

Today I decided that rather than do our journals with a paper and pencil, we would create a journal entry using Doodle Buddy. Students worked in groups of two (because I love the collaboration) to draw a picture using the Doodle Buddy app. As I walked around the classroom, the conversations were music to my ears. I listened as students negotiated different ideas and tried to figure out (problem solve) the different functions of the app.

At the end of the project, students had to take a 'screen shot' of their picture and sentences. Then they had to email it to their individual evernote-notebook (eportfolio). These tasks require a lot of different knowledge/skills and I am impressed that my grade ones are able to do all of these things on their own, but they CAN!! (Just as a side note-this project was about the content of their writing and connecting the picture to some vocabulary. Students are still at the emergent writing stage so they are writing words phonetically and therefore there are errors)

Videolicious and Plant Discovery

We took our iPads OUTDOORS!! Yay! We have this great forest outside our school so we decided to explore it with our iPads. Students took photos of plants, leaves, stems, and roots. They were so excited and it was so nice to be outside.

Students worked together in groups using the Videolicious app. Students recorded their voices and added music to create fun and interesting videos about plants.

Students took it upon themselves to write down the dialogue before recording. It was really interesting to see all the different skills students required to create videos collaboratively. It was amazing to watch how students decided to both speak and record videos at the same time. It was amazing to see the problem solving.

My only real issue is the background noise. It is really hard to record audio in a classroom because you end up with a lot of voices :(