So, I think I am ready to start publishing my project. I have written down everything I would like to include. Is that a "digital immigrant" thing? I feel that my brain organizes and processes information more efficiently when I write them down on paper (not type on a keyboard) and I have read some information that supports my thinking. Sometimes, I feel like I'm doing double work and I wonder if any digital natives have this issue. Back to the subject at hand. I will need to type up the lesson plan in Word and finish my sample in Comic Life. Have we decided if there is a common place to post these projects? Can I drag these on to this blog page? I guess I will ask those at tomorrow's meeting.

So, up to this point I have been spending my time familiarizing myself with comic life. I plan to have students use a digital camera to snap some photos of classmates in some type of "emotional" scene. Next, they will use speech balloons to add comments and captions to demonstrate the skill of using quotation marks. I was hoping that the speech bubbles would provide a very clear visual of exactly which words are surrounded by quotation marks in a sentence containing dialog. The photos would also help to show emotion which would help to increase vocabulary (using words other than "said"). I feel as though the air has just been let out of my sails (you can use that as one of your idioms, Andy) concerning my motivation for this project. I had planned to use it in my classroom next year, because I was going to specialize in math and writing, while my partner would handle the rest of language arts. However, I just left a message stating that I would be happy to pursue a position as a math coach. Oh well. I will probably just continue on with this project and share it with my now possibly "former" grade level partners. I have always seen a logical connection between language arts and technology projects that I can incorporate in a third grade classroom, but I am at a loss as to how to create "doable" elementary math projects. Any suggestions?

Test Blog 6-??-08

Happy Summer to all.