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Mark McDonough

Flowboard - Touch Publishing - 1 views

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    very cool new storytelling app. easy to use. easy to insert images, text, video. can search Google image from within the app. can UPDATE the story and keep the orignal url (huge!). drawback is that sharing via url (and facebook and twitter) are the only options - no epub, pdf, etc.
Mark McDonough

Storynory, Free Audio Stories for Kids - 1 views

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    this might be a useful resource for k's lsf grant for audiobooks.
Mark McDonough

Make Your Images Interactive - ThingLink - 1 views

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    Create rich images with music, video, sound, text and more. Share and discover deeper stories through images. Kinda like a simpler, cleaner Glogster. Add media to a background image.
Mark McDonough

Rewards of teaching young children to blog - 0 views

  • When I first started blogging, I thought the posts would be the primary focus of the blog. I quickly realized that the comment section was where the blog came to life.
  • Many parents work but would love to volunteer in some way. Last year, I asked parents to become “virtual volunteers” for our blogs. A virtual volunteer is a person who supports the blog by commenting back to students. This type of interaction helps strengthen the home-school connection and makes the comment sections more engaging.
  • With classroom time at a premium, I look for meaningful ways to integrate curriculum; the blog has been the perfect venue. When my class read “The Great Kapok Tree” by Lynne Cherry for language arts, the students followed up their reading by researching a rain forest animal that was mentioned in the story. Each student composed a comment for the blog from the point of view of that animal.
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  • During our biography unit, I had each student select a famous person to study. Students submitted a creative comment pretending they were that person. George Washington got a comment from Queen Elizabeth I, Mozart and Tchaikovsky were chatting; the blog comments truly brought these historic people to life!
  • Of all the riches that blogging has brought to my class, the relationships we’ve built with other classrooms around the world have been the most rewarding.
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    good, quick overview of how a 3rd grade teacher uses blogging. includes specific examples.
Mark McDonough

StoryKeepers - iPad StoryTelling APPS - 5 views

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    really good list of ipad apps for Storytelling, Comic-Making, and Image-Making, Publishing
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    Nice list Mark...I wanted to try the Storylines app at morning meeting but it limits the ipad passing to 9 people. Guess I could do two. I'll let you know how it goes.
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    I got Storypatch. It looks pretty good and offers a lot of options for the kids to make stories. I am going to try it out with a few students and see how it goes.
Joe Colombo

Reading Rainbow App - 0 views

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    Great App -stories brought to life with interactive illustrations and narrations by authors. Costs $$ but there is a free trial
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