Hale+Kula+Projects


 * Hale Kula Projects: **// using Web 2.0 create, organize and share information //

// VOICETHREAD // "...a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in five ways..." media type="custom" key="8894020" align="center"

**Curriculum Connection:** As an introduction to a Community Unit, Hale Kula Elementary School 3rd grade teacher, Mr. Gutierrez surveyed students to determine the "biggest problem in their lives." The class was unanimous: bullying. Mr. Gutierrez introduced the students to Jay Banks' program: S.T.A.M.P. so they could "stamp out bullying."

** Sharing Digitally: ** Hale Kula Elementary School is part of the statewide VoiceThread project. In this VoiceThread, students planned their "informative story;" how they would turn their knowledge of S.T.A.M.P. into videos. We shot and uploaded video, photos, and PowerPoint slides and then recorded their voices to explain the images and to reflect on their learning.

The VoiceThread can be shared as a link, exported to your computer, or embedded on a website as it is here.

Our next step is to share the VoiceThread with others so they can comment on the content and process of the girls' work.

**Please leave a comment for them! Log in to VoiceThread** **Log in:** HASLguest@hidoe.ed.voicethread.com **Password:** haslguest

// WEEBLIES //
Free websites for students & teachers.



** Curriculum Connection: ** 5th grade students began the year creating "Explorer Blogs" and some classes went on to post their science fair process/questions and image flow maps to identify the food chain in a specific biome. Some teachers have used the Weebly to house literature circle blogs and assignments. Gifted and Talented students used their weeblies for our Literature Circle on Found and worked with our 5th grade response to intervention teacher for math.

** Sharing Digitally: ** Our 5th grade teachers wanted an electronic portfolio that could be accessible to students both at school, at home and for their deployed parents abroad. Weebly for education allows teachers to create and oversee student accounts. The drag and drop method of Weebly and the vast number of templates, fonts and tools made it appealing to students and teachers. Teachers also found it to be the perfect host for student made VoiceThreads, Wordles, and Voki's as Weebly lets you embed html easily.

//GLOGSTER // //Online mulitmedia posters//

** Curriculum Connection: ** Two 5th grade girls latched onto Glogster as means of sharing information about the character, Katherine, in the book Found. Their close reading of the text led them to notice details most of us gloss over because they aren't related to the plot, but the **do** give us deeper insight into the character herself. Madelyn designed her "Katherine Glog" to show the "fun & feminine side" of Katherine. Daylie designed her "Katherine Glog" to reveal Katherine's feelings about the events of the book.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;">** Sharing Digitally: ** <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;">Glogster enabled the girls to choose from hundreds of backgrounds, fancy text boxes and fun gadgets. As they built their glogs, they did their own exploring and troubleshooting like adding images and linking to other pages. Not only did they try to capture Katherine's voice through their words, they also did so with the images and colors they selected. These glogs definitely say "teenage girl."