Scenario

According to ISTE NETS Standards for technology, students should be able to demonstrate creativity and innovation. I think there are two main resources students can use to demonstrate this standard in the classroom. One is the use of amimoto which is a site for uploading images to turn into a video. An idea I have for my own Secondary Education English classroom would be to do a jigsaw technique where students are broken up into groups and they read and compile information about one thing in the chapter and then other groups do this for the other parts of the chapter. Then they teach it to their classmates. I believe animoto would be a great way for them to do this! Here is an example of what my English animoto:

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Going along with this, I think it would be really cool if at the beginning of the year when the students and I are discussing classroom rules, we created an animoto video with those rules in it! This could be shared with all students easily and it would incorporate the students in the developing of the classroom rules which I think is important to do. The students and I would find photos online that apply or take screen captures of text that states the rule to create this project.

Another main resource that could be used in the classroom is voicethread. Voicethread is a great way for students to do research and then present that research in a fun, technological way. Voicethread requires you to find images, place captions of text explaining the images, and then further explaining them by recording yourself. This recording is similiar to telling it in a story-like manner which makes the research much more personable and interesting. I would like to use voicethread in my classroom by having students research a historical event important in a novel we are reading and then do a voicethread on it. They could do this with a group or individually because of how simple it is to do! Here is an example of a voicethread I did for Constitution Hall in Lecompton, Kansas.