Free Technology For Teachers --Richard Byrne

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
What a find!! This is an amazing site for educators because of the variety of resources that are contained in this blog! One of my favorites I found right away was an app called Three Ring. This is where you can take a picture of the student's work and organize it and comment on it without having to hold onto it. Notes can be added before and after the upload! Brilliant way to showcase student work for parents to see! I also loved the Most Popular Posts of the Year blog he wrote about.
A Cleaner Youtube is something I will definitely use in my classroom. I am always finding related video clips on the topics I teach, but some advertisements along the side can pop-up and as a teacher, this makes me nervous! A Cleaner Youtube allows you to show the video without any of the comments, advertisements, or related videos appearing.
I am excited to have my students do some comic writing using Witty Comics and The SuperHero Squad. I am finding success with my students' writing on the computer. This takes away the reluctance of getting started for a lot of my kids. Making comics is my next writing project I'm going to start this week with my kids. I also read about how comic writing can help students become better writers. I found all of this through this site!
I could go on and on about what I have found on this site! I will continue to follow Richard Byrne and spend more time reading through all of the great resources he has found for teachers!

My students' first Animoto

A couple of my students were very eager to start an Animoto. I introduced them to it on Monday, and they presented it to the class on Wednesday. This was their first and now they want to add video to it, but I was proud of the way they dove in! They used this video as an introduction to a unit in science we are about to begin!

Navigating our classroom website using Screenr

This screencast will show you how to navigate through our classroom website!

Using Animoto in the Classroom!

Completely impressed and absolutely love Animoto! Had so much fun creating a video to show this year's students featuring them! I plan to use this video when next year's upcoming fifth graders visit my classroom to see what 5th grade is all about! I plan to take more pictures in different subject areas to add to this. Students in my room will be using Animoto this year! I love the idea of my students developing a project based on what we are studying. I am going to start by having a few students be my "pilot" group. I will let them choose the subject area they are interested in. We will see how it goes! I will post their final projects!

My Animoto Movie!

Blogging in the Classroom!

I recently completed an article for a course I am taking in pursue of my Master's degree.  I created a Multimedia project about an article of my choosing.  I chose an interesting article on blogging in the classroom and it really inspired me to start this in my own classroom.  I am very excited to introduce this to my students in the upcoming week! Take a look at the project!

One of my favorite inspirational videos!

Showed this clip to my class a few weeks ago during an exercise and nutrition unit we had.  They loved it and of course, I do too!  Ben in the video is truly an inspiration!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbXgQqbOoU