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HAZER'S THOUGHTS: Day 2: "Many hands lighten the load"
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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, January 11, 2010. Day 2: "Many hands lighten the load". Friday English 8 - period 1 - 9:00 am. The recording studio set up, the listening studio set up, and many people helping:. My EA and I are in the classroom with 1/4 of the students. Karen and April (DI facilitator) are in the recording studio with 1/4 of the students and Kirk is downstairs in the computer lab (listening studio) with 1/2 of the students. Or "why doesn't this computer have power? April for he...
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HAZER'S THOUGHTS: Blogging.... new to me... I must be crazy!!!
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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, January 11, 2010. Blogging. new to me. I must be crazy! Kirk has this great idea! Andrea, you should blog this experience! Sure I can blog. hee. Who am I kidding? I have never blogged in my life! I have snooped and read blogs but never replied to one OR created one! This guy is crazy! I don't have time for this, really, I don't! You always have time to make time - that is my mother speaking) OK, so here I am blogging! Oh my I just added fish. yeah me!
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HAZER'S THOUGHTS: Day three : Peer editing 101
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There was an error in this gadget. Thursday, January 14, 2010. Day three : Peer editing 101. I was ready to get all the students to do their first recording and then listen to themself. On Audacity program. We explained that if they were not happy with what they heard just keep rercording. So, the students were rotating through the two studios ubtil. After attending my English curricular day, I would change the way the peers edited and received. They all revised using their peers feedback. All the st...
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HAZER'S THOUGHTS: January 2010
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There was an error in this gadget. Sunday, January 31, 2010. So, we have been digital storytelling for three weeks now. The kids are trying new things and asking if they can add pictures, sound, and music. I am still apprehensive when a student has their hand up because I don't have a clue most of the time. I did help a student when he couldn't get sound through his headset. he was plugged into the mic jack and not the headphone jack. hee. In assessment. brilliant! This is never going to end! So, at the ...
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HAZER'S THOUGHTS: "Head first all the way - do it or your scared!"
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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, January 11, 2010. Head first all the way - do it or your scared! All of a sudden, I was receiving. A beautiful lesson plan emailed from Kirk! I read it over and thought "I don't know how to do this stuff" Giving up control is hard, being flexible is hard, the unknown is hard, but totally worth conquering it. The talk about the recording studio and the listening studio created excitement. editing. In a different way using technology. not peer self editing. Andrea...
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HAZER'S THOUGHTS: Smart kids!
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There was an error in this gadget. Sunday, January 31, 2010. So, we have been digital storytelling for three weeks now. The kids are trying new things and asking if they can add pictures, sound, and music. I am still apprehensive when a student has their hand up because I don't have a clue most of the time. I did help a student when he couldn't get sound through his headset. he was plugged into the mic jack and not the headphone jack. hee. In assessment. brilliant! This is never going to end! So, at the ...
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HAZER'S THOUGHTS: Techie Gremlins beware!
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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, January 11, 2010. Start time: Period 1 - English 8: Wednesday 9:00am. I come into our designated "recording studio" at 8:30. We have seven computers set up for the voice recording portion of the assignment. The gremlin of the techie world strikes again - we can not log into the computers, the server is down. AUGH. I felt disheartened, discouraged, upset! Why does this always happen to me! Persuasion we were up and running at 9:30. January 12, 2010 at 10:33 AM.
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HAZER'S THOUGHTS: Why I don't like being snowed in!!
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There was an error in this gadget. Sunday, January 24, 2010. Why I don't like being snowed in! Well, I have a two hour work period booked for Monday morning. I was so excited for the students to make some great progress on their assignment. This has been kiboshed. Now, for the students who make it to school and actually work they will be way ahead of the rest. For the students who don't show, they will be playing catch up. As for me, I am snowed in at my acreage. Can I play background music? I know every...
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HAZER'S THOUGHTS: Pondering change :) 11/01/2010
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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, January 11, 2010. Pondering change :) 11/01/2010. So I like to try new things in the classroom. you know brainwashed with being a "lifelong" learner. I took the bait, hook, line, and sinker. It all started when Kirk was introduced to our staff at our staff meeting (which really aren't staff meetings anymore imo. Anyways, I decided I had an assignment in mind for digital storyboard. I sat down with Kirk and Karen (our techie helper) and we hacked out a rough ...
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HAZER'S THOUGHTS: Can't keep up!!!
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There was an error in this gadget. Sunday, January 17, 2010. Day 3: Computer lab (Friday) -. Kirk and I explain to the students what we want to get done by the end of the period, a title page using movie maker. They have no problem finding the movie maker program. The only question we missed was "how do you change the background colour? It took the kids less than five minutes to create a their title page. I looked at the clock. oh great thirty minutes left. now what? These kids are quick with this stuff!