Because I have to create a video lesson for my Applied Research & Diversity special education class, I decided to practice the lesson that I am creating for that class and use it as a digital lesson for my teaching with technology class. The topic, pluralizing words ending with –y, when there is a consonant before the -y was randomly chosen (hand-picked) out of an envelope. There are a lot of repetitive statements because the lesson is geared towards a special education class. Dr. Berlinghoff, my special education professor told our class to make ure that we repeat ourselves to that the student will remember what they heard. Sometimes I wonder if I had repeated certain things too many times. Perhaps I will send her a link and have her preview the screens before that assignment is actually due.
At the end of the lesson, I created an assignment for my “pretend” class to carry out. The assignment would be a lot of fun for any class. The students (“pretend students”) will have the opportunity to be creative using words, art/computer clip art, they will have the opportunity to video themselves or simply record their voices as their artwork and lyrics to their song appear on the Voice Thread presentation. Please find the link to the link to this Voice Thread lesson/assignment posted below.
I believe that this lesson and assignment display what a teacher can do with Voice Thread. Any student that was absent can still view the lesson for the day. In addition, the students will love the creative aspect of the assignment. I think that they are going to love the fact that they can hear themselves and their friends and family may have the opportunity to post a comment. Moreover, a posted lesson would be helpful to a student who has been absent. I also believe that the children are going to love to have their family and friends post comments to their work.
