Doodlecast Pro

Our school chose to celebrate 101 days of school this year instead of 100 Day.  We had a dalmation theme and the kids did all kinds of counting.  Now being the tech lover that I am, I named my pup techie, decorated my classroom door like a dog house and had the kids answer questions about 101 while I recorded their voice using Doodlecast Pro!

My original plan was to use Sonic Pics, but you could not add more photos once you started recording voice, so I quickly went in search of a new app!  Doodlecast Pro did the trick.  Now we certainly could have been MORE elaborate in our video, however, we were quickly rushing 30+ kids through the station with only 20 minutes available.  We sorted the kids by grade and then quickly snapped a photo of each of them... once they had been at the puppy ear station they looked adorable!  Next we opened up Doodlecast, inserted the picture and had them record their voice (I could eat 101 Smarties etc).  Once they were done speaking they went off to color a dalmation while the next person had a turn.  We inserted, recorded and moved on ALL AFTERNOON!

Speaking is an essential part of the curriculum and it is difficult for so many kids to do.  This project certainly highlighted that, but also reinforced the need for technology and how kids can simply make their own creations.

Here's the grade one finished video...............

I had also done a trial run the day before just to make sure it was going to work out for me.   I had my students tell me about their 100 Day posters!

Enjoy!

Lois Storyrobe plan

My Storyrobe trial will be with one of our spelling rules--The Catch Lunch rule. I made a lesson with the mimio that the students have been practicing the rule with. I know that if they can explain how the rule works it will help them to become more solid in using it in their writing. They took the pictures as they practiced the rule with the mimio and I've put it on the storyboard so it's ready for the audio tomorrow. We'll see how it goes and I'll post it on the blog when it's done.

Storyrobe Tutorial

Here's a tutorial on how to use Storyrobe.
The quick tips from my trials on using the Storyrobe app  are:

•  it's a 3 min. video
• if one of the students make a mistake you have to start all over from the beginning of the story. There isn't a redo.--hmmm could be a problem
• once you create the story, you can't go back and edit

Watch this great Youtube video to see the details of how it works--with other great tips