Okay, so Technology sometimes give me fits. I think I'm doing everything right and then suddenly, something doesn't happen that I think should happen. Case in point was I tried to comment on another blog. I thought it was great, but the spam blocker made you do a math problem. It was basic math, so I didn't add incorrectly. When I posted my response it sent me to a page that said I couldn't do math. I tried word form as well as standard form for the number and I just couldn't make it work for me. However, I did copy my response, so you can read what I wanted to post and then visit the site I tried to post to.
Here's what I tried to post:
Wow! I too am an elementary school teacher. I could definitely see creating a comic strip as a class in order to teach the kids how to do it. After we created a few as a class I could see putting students in groups to create some. By the end of second grade, we could have quite a few posted to our classroom website. It would be an interactive way of testing expository knowledge. Since I can see primary students creating one as a class and then as a small group I could definitely see the potential this has for older students. It could be an excellent homework assignment when students study history or science. I don't see math or English being quite as successful though those teachers might find a way to make it work. http://teachertechblog.com/student-made-comics-with-pixton/378/
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I was having fits technology this week as well. I could not find the blog I posted to originally. Then I tried to post a comment today and the verification word would not work and I lost the whole comment. Hopefully this will get easier!
ReplyDeleteFor the first course we took, I read an article in the Reading Teacher about web 2.0 and creating comics. It sounds similar to your post. If you are interested, I can send you the link to the article.
Yes, please! The idea of creating comics really intrigues me. I never liked the idea of actually drawing comics freehand because so many students would feel self-conscious about their drawing ability. Taking the drawing ability out of the equation equalizes this type of assignment. As a teacher, you would have to show the students how to use this. Teachers could either webcam the lesson, webcam a lesson later, write up step-by-step instructions with pictures, or a combination of the instructional ideas and post it on the class webpage so students can go back and refer to it at need. Secondary teachers could even create a blog area dedicated to the comics topic so students in other periods could communicate with each other and share problems/solutions with each other and receive peer feedback. Having it open like that would also create a record the teacher can check in case she/he receives 2 identical comics.
ReplyDeleteHello! I feel the same as your when it comes to technology... once I feel I did something right... it goes wrong. I am hoping I did the RSS right!
ReplyDeleteAnyways! I did the same thing with the comic strips. It was a high school learning support room. They were not very motivated to read or write but they loved to draw! They really enjoyed making the strips!
Another idea for english (when teaching poetry) is to have the students make their own 'collection of poems' book. Once they add the various types of poems, you can have a coffeeshop!
Here is the article from Reading Teacher that I mentioned above. You can access it from the Walden library.
ReplyDeleteHandsfield, L., Dean, T., & Cielocha, K. (2009). Becoming critical consumers and producers of text: Teaching literacy with Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Reading Teacher, 63 (1), 40-50. Retrieved from ERIC database.
Shrift, thanks for the idea. With second graders, we don't write our own poetry, but we do have poetry journals where we discuss a poem and then draw a picture to reflect the poem. It's about as close to your coffee shop idea as I can get. During the year we write alliteration poems as that is one of our standards and I post them in the classroom. At the end of the year, they become part of a book.
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