Sitting here, reflecting, it just dawned on me (actually, quite literally, as I have also watched the sun rise on this beautiful morning) that you have not met the duck characters that my students created in our Ducks Galore project that I referred to in an earlier post!
Please check out this voice thread (by clicking on the picture) on which the students recorded an introduction to their duck for their peers:
This is our first project…and a collaborative one, at that!…using this tool. I soon discovered that students who would gladly talk all class period were suddenly shy, nervous, even insecure when it came to recording their introductions (and most of them recorded in private!).
The students learned/utilized several important skills here, though.
- Sometimes the audience is not just the teacher…probably the toughest audience one ever has is peers. Right?
- They each requested access to our class wiki Cafe Pre-AP where this Voice Thread is housed.
- They learned how to create avatars and to leave comments on a Voice Thread.
- Using tone, they presented their introductions in a varied way from just writing it down on paper or even just turning to their neighbor and verbalizing their tone of voice.
All-in-all, this was a good project! Now to develop another voice thread project where they are the writer, producer, director…lots of tremendous skills in that one!
Like this project? Here’s the link!
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Nice ducks and the color is very much attractive. I didn’t know that It can be a tool for the students learned or utilized several important skills.
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Watching the kids with their ducks has been interesting! Quite the character development…definitely not static characters!
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