Showing posts with label Vine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vine. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Instagram and Vine


Instagram and Vine

Well, my last two social apps I had the pleasure of getting familiar with is Instagram and Vine. I was pretty familiar with Instagram, but never bother to use it since I am mostly on Facebook. But, it' s a fairly easy and simple app to use. Teachers and Librarians can also find it very useful  in the classroom or library.
Here are some ideas I found on ways to use Instagram in the classroom.
  1. Showcase students' work. Snap pictures of students' artwork and other special projects to share on a private Instagram account only accessible to families and others in your school community.
  2. Feature a student of the week. Invite students to alternate "taking over" your classroom Instagram account and sharing photos from their daily lives. Then have the featured student share his or her photos with the class.
  3. Capture field trip memories. Invite a student volunteer "archivist" to take photos on your field trips or during class parties and share them on your Instagram account.
  4. Go on an ABC scavenger hunt. Challenge kids to find print in the world around them—on signs, packaging and in the mail.
  5. Document student progress. Snap photos of student's writing at the beginning and end of the year. Order inexpensive prints from sites such as Prinstagr.am to show students how far they have come.
    For more ideas go to:

http://www.weareteachers.com/community/blogs/weareteachersblog/blog-wat/2013/07/22/10-ways-to-use-instagram-in-the-classroom
Here are  two links to my  instagram photos:

  (I can't believe I got all the way to the last project and couldnt' embed my pictures into my blog!)

 The first photo is me starting my first painting. My husband and I took a three hour BYOB painting class. The instructor guided us step by step to paint a beautiful masterpiece, lol!

 http://instagram.com/p/rDNbXkgxSB/

This is the finished piece!

http://instagram.com/p/rDUB0VAxc9/



    Vine is a 8 second  video you can make. I had never really heard of it and was curious as to how I could use it in the classroom. Well, after a few assigned readings, I got some neat ideas. Here are the highlights of how teachers/librarians can use Vine.


1. Use Vine videos to teach your students about inference. You can film a few shots of something and then let the students discuss what they think is going on in the video, or what caused the scene.
2. Have students re-create scenes from books they are reading using Vine to showcase their interpretation of the story.
3. Get students excited about an upcoming unit by using Vine to create a unit preview.
4.Help students memorize critical concepts. Vine videos are looped, so they continuously play what you record. This is great to teach things that need to be committed to memory, such as times tables or phonetic concepts.



 Below are my Vines of part of my garden. Both plants  started out as a little seedling.

 This Vine Video is my okra plant. I bought it when it was about 3 inches tall.  Its almost as tall as me now. (Mommy so proud :)) We have given 3 people a handful of okra already and it's still producing.

 My cucumber plant is a much bigger "vine" than it was two weeks ago. It has flowers and is climbling its way up the trellis. I can't wait until I get my delicious cucumbers. Yummy!
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Saturday, July 5, 2014

Twittering in Education

     For one of my MLS assignments, I  have the opportunity to follow several of the biggest names in the educational technology field. The top six leaders are Linda Braun, Tony Vincent, Buffy Hamilton, The Daring Librarian, Jim Lerman, and Kathy Schrock. Each of their profiles and tweets are valuable and informative. 

     Linda Braun ( @lbraun2000) is a Youth Service Manager in a Seattle Public Library, an Educational Tech Consultant, an educator, a teen advocate, a librarian, and one of YALSA's Past Presidents. One of my favorite tweets from her is about popular apps teens love. I have a tween who is always on her Iphone so this one picque my curiosity. It is titled Apps Teens Actually Love.


Here are the apps teens actually love, in 5 charts http://t.co/2u0v7cnqgt


This chart is very useful, not only for my personal children, but also for my students. It gives me insight on what's hot in teen apps.







       The next educational leader in twitter world is Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent). He co-created an iPad app called Stick Around. This app lets you "play, design, and share sorting and labeling puzzles! Stick Around comes with an assortment of puzzles, including ordering decimals and classifying rocks. It's the player's job to drag the stickers from the tray to their correct spots on the background before time runs out."  His tweets centers around learning new technology and apps. One of my favorites from him is the tweet where he explains how his Ipad app works:








When you click on the link, it takes you directly to the page where you see the video of  him teaching you how to use his app in the classroom.








   The third person I began to follow is Buffy Hamilton (@buffyjhamilton). Her profile states she is a "librarian and teacher who loves learning, critical literacy, stories, music, dogs, poetry, and participatory learning." Her tweet on 3-d printing reminds me of a research  paper  my son did when he was a senior in high school, three years ago! From the looks of the video and tweet, a lot of progress has been made since then.












The next technology twitterer is The Daring Librarian ( @Gwyneth Jones). She is a "teacher, a librarian, a blogger, a speaker, a meme archivist, and creator & curator of content."
Her tweet about becoming a tech guru this summer caught my eye, especially since I am taking the course, Internet For School Librarians. This tweet will bring you to Edutech for an article giving you tips and places to get tech savvy for the following school year. Because of the Daring Librarian, I signed up for Thinglink.











Jim Lerman is the 5th leader.(@jimlerman).  He is a "parent, learner, teacher, leader, author, speaker, collaborator, networker, focused on new schools for new learning." He often tweets about his page titled, The 4th Era. It introduced me to Scoop It. This is a neat tool to get up to date information, articles, and content on the subject area of your choice. The articles are short and easy to read. I enjoyed reading The 4th Era.  Boosting the Life Chances of Young Men of Color was a really good read because I teach African American children and my son is of color.



My last one is Katy Schrock (@kathyschrock). She is  an educational technologist, a  DEN Guru, an Adobe Ed Leader, and a Google Certified Teacher.  After scrolling through some of her tweets, I came across the motherload of all tweets. It's a link to her website where she has a trove of Web 2.0 tools and online utilities one can access with a click of a mouse. This page will be favorited and put upon my tool menu bar. Thanks Katy Schrock!



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