Book Reports - 5840: March 2012

Thursday, 29 March 2012

Shelfari

At the very bottom of this blog I have added a "Shelfari" book shelf. I would recommend a couple ideas with this internet idea. Students could make their own shelf. Add all their favourite books to the shelf. Also, students could write a review, through the Shelfari website, on one of the books on my shelf. I think this would be a great idea for a classroom teacher to keep a "shelf" of the class's favourite books.

Scroll down to the bottom of the blog and see if you recognize any of my favourite books!

Presentation / New Technology

SlideRocket - The New Way To Present SlideRocket is a great new presentation tool. It is free, fun and easy! I like that you can import your previous PowerPoint presentations. You can also import images for quick and easy sharing or import as editable files. These are fully compatible with SlideRocket. I also like that SlideRocket's is always available. Online, offline or mobile you can login, access your presentations 24x7. Although I have never tried using SlideRocket as a collaborative tool, I will certainly be trying this feature! Live embedded data in the slides is also a nice feature. I have embed live Twitter feeds and a video. YouTube videos ran flawlessly. An industry first, SlideRocket analytics lets you measure your presentation effectiveness by showing you who viewed and what they did as a result. To me this would be a great feedback feature in a classroom and it would keep fellow students focused on the presentation.

Photostory

Untitled from Liz Loewen on Vimeo.

Bring your digital photos to life with Photo Story 3. Create a photo slideshow of your book reports most memorable moments. You can capture the beginning, middle & end as well as the setting, main characters, problem and solution just the way you want them. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop or rotate pictures. It's that easy. Then, add stunning special effects, sountracks and personalize your stories with titles and captions. Start sharing your stories today. I have spent hours trying to figure out how to share a Photostory on a blog. My friend Leslie introduced me to Vimeo. I dropped my Photostory into Vimeo and was then able to embed it in my blog! If you know another way to share Photostory, please do share!

Go Animate

GoAnimate.com: Go Animate- Charlotte's Web by librarian liz

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun! GoAnimate state-of-art animation tools are perfect to complement your teaching and get your students to put learning into practice. GOANIMATE lets students create short, animated films and publish them on the Internet. The online software is easy to figure out and simple to use, and the cartoon characters can be made to perform a wide variety of actions and show plenty of entertaining emotions and reactions. Students can choose from a collection of stock characters, many drawn from well known TV shows or video games, or upload their own graphics. Students can write and record dialogue, move the characters, direct the camera, add music and sound effects - all with drag & drop tools! I found this program really easy to use with my grade 4 students.