Posts Tagged ‘EdTech’

Video Content We’ve Been Watching

29, Mar 2010

Over the past couple of weeks, we have viewed several video programs and clips which connect with the content we’re studying. In this post, I’m embedding several of the videos we’ve seen. Please understand that I – as a teacher – and DreamExtreme – as a class – are not fully endorsing these videos. They [...]

Xtranormal Animation

11, Dec 2009

Students in the DreamExtreme classroom have been exploring a web-based tool called Xtranormal.com. Xtranormal allows a person to use text to create an animation sequence. The user is able to select a character, background, voice, and other video and audio elements. It also allows you to add actions, camera angles and other semi-cinematic elements. Above, [...]

Video Connections and Literature Circles

4, Dec 2009

As we barrel toward the Christmas break, we’re feverishly trying to tie up loose ends and bring projects to a satisfying and successful close. We’re also throwing some new irons into the fire just to keep things interesting. This week we had the wonderful opportunity to connect with artist Lonnie Powell from Missouri. Along with [...]

A Bug’s Life: Up CLOSE!

29, Oct 2009

Bugs. They’re kind of tricky. Some people love them. Love to look at them and catch them and play with them and learn about them. Other people just like to squash them as soon as they amble across their paths. Today, in the DreamExtreme classroom, we had the extraordinary opportunity to look at bugs up [...]

New Video: DreamExtreme Goals

29, Sep 2009

Our school Open House and Barbecue is this week. It’s a great opportunity to expand our classroom to the entire family, bringing what we do during the day directly to parents. It’s also a wonderful chance to focus on where we’re going the rest of the year. We wanted something to share with families that [...]

VoiceThread in the DreamExtreme Classroom

12, Sep 2009

I had a bit of wonderful news today. As I mentioned in an earlier post, a classroom subscription for VoiceThread was being given away by the company itself and Lee Kolbert of the GeekyMomma Blog. In a Twitter update and blog post today, Ms. Kolbert announced that the DreamExtreme class had been selected to win [...]

Finding Our Voice(Thread)

28, Aug 2009

Survive. It’s a good goal for all of us. I mean, it’s pretty obvious that to accomplish anything in life we’ve got to survive just to be able to start the next day…right? As a teacher, my first several years in the classroom could be described as survival years…just getting through each day so we [...]

Stepping into the ActivArena

7, Aug 2009

When my ActivBoard was installed last fall, it came with two ActivPens. I expected, being inexperienced with the workings of the interactive whiteboard (IWB), that two pens meant two people could write at the same time. I was a bit disappointed when I realized the second pen was only a spare. It turned out that [...]


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