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Finding Your Voice: Using VoiceThread in and Elementary Classroom Blair Boghetich

Finding Your Voice: Using VoiceThread in and Elementary Classroom Blair Boghetich Hyer Elementary-4 th grade Highland Park ISD. Interactive, multimedia slide show Users can work collaborative and actively over documents, pictures, and videos

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Finding Your Voice: Using VoiceThread in and Elementary Classroom Blair Boghetich

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  1. Finding Your Voice: Using VoiceThread in and Elementary Classroom Blair Boghetich Hyer Elementary-4th grade Highland Park ISD

  2. Interactive, multimedia slide show • Users can work collaborative and actively over documents, pictures, and videos • Students can participate and work at their own pace • Flexible • Easily accessible

  3. Who Can Benefit From It? • General Ed Students • Students with special needs • Learning disabilities • Attention deficit hyperactive disorder • Emotional or behavioral problems *Layout and features are designed for engagement, motivation and promoting independent learners

  4. LANGUAGE ARTS • Create sentences with spelling words • Identify/label types of speech • Identify/label/create figurative language • Demonstrate understanding of vocabulary • Brainstorming for writing • Peer editing/revising • Working with Quotations (adding them to a picture) • Analyze “good writing samples”

  5. READING • Analyze/create story maps • Complete Venn-diagrams • Discuss story elements • Book clubs/book discussion • Character analysis (inferencing) • Work on fluency by listening to themselves read

  6. MATH • Identify/label geometric shapes • Solve problems, showing work and discuss thinking • Demonstrate understanding of concepts • Describe probability • Estimate and measure items around the school • Interpret graphs

  7. SCIENCE • Identify layers of soil • Identify and discuss cycles (moon phases, water, rock) • Identify and analyze causes/effects (ex. Weathering and erosion) • Identify and discuss animal adaptations • Describe an experiment/discuss scientific process

  8. TEXAS HISTORY • Create/identify timelines of Explorers • Compare and Contrast Native American Tribes • Discuss battles of the Texas Revolution • Report on Explorer from their point of view

  9. OTHER IDEAS… • Have students create a Voicethread to teach other kids concepts • Classmates can create lessons for students who were absent • Pre-assessment- students can tell you what they know about a topic • Use to create a KWL • View and discuss videos • Upload pictures from a field trip and have students discuss what they learned, enjoyed, would have preferred • Digital portfolio of student work (peers, parents, teachers can comment)

  10. Presenter Information • Visit my weebly for all handouts and more information on getting started with Voicethread. http://boghetichclass.weebly.com/teacher-technology-tips.html • Email me with any questions boghetb@hpisd.org • Resources Brunvand, S. & Byrd, S. Using VoiceThread to promote learning engagement and success for all students. Teaching Exceptional Children. (43)4, 28-37. http://tinyurl.com/3ngq5uo

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