Going Digital?????

I have come far in the digital writing classroom, and thank Bill for all of his hard work and for opening up my eyes to people like Sara Kadjer and Troy Hicks.I know I have a long way to go. For example, when doing my voice thread, I thought we had to create a voice thread of our own, and embed it onto our blog. Well if you look at the voice thread you will see a picture of Odysseus, that is me as I created an actual voice thread for my students to follow and so when I got on the voice thread discussions at class, the picture of Odysseus pops up as me. In short, I know enough to be dangerous.
I would like to create more lessons for my classes utilizing digital writing, but feel I need more guidance. Perhaps. I am not ready to let go (so to speak) of Bill quite yet. I am still not quite sure what all the district will allow, but I have discovered many things such as photo story, wordle, edutales, wall wisher, and many others that I can use in class. I would like to learn some of the other things we have discussed so far in more depth so I can pass it along to my students. Hoping we can still keep in touch after the class ends, and thanking everyone in class for their support. The examples and comments from other students has helped me tremendously. Bill, thank you and hope you can still send things from time to time.

Video from YouTube

How I created my voicethread

I found a creation on you tube and followed the instructions. It took several attempts to creat it and then upload it to my blog post. I still do not know if I did this right, for some reason it does not look correct. I think I will go look at others to see what they have done. Till then bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I

My Voice Thread

Pass Test

My first attempt at creating a digital story for our class--Pardon all imperfections

Google Docs Sets Class on Fire

Today, I took my two of my classes into the lab to have them respond to a journal question I had earlier assigned from the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. The students created their own Google Docs accounts earlier in the week-during class and at home. When we arrived at the lab, and everyone finally settled down to do the assigt, they had a blast. Each student invited me and at least one other person in the class onto their account. Students responded to the journal, to each other, and chattedd to each other while online. They were really excited to see what each other had written, and they gave some very interesting comments to each other. They stayed on task and were focused, ready to respond to each journal entry. I was relieved to see they were truly enjoying online writing and when it was time to leave, they were actually disappointed. One student asked if we could do this everyday. To actually put into practice, not only what I learned in this class, but what our books have been advocating, was extremely rewarding.

Student's Essay