So I have been taking some webinars online for PDUs for my teaching license. This one I am doing today corresponds to one I did last week and I just had a great idea I wanted to share.
Todays is about using blog and wikis in the classroom. Well being a Kindergarten teaching, I think it is very difficult for the little ones to use a blog or a wiki since they can hardly type their name on the computer. So I'm going to be starting a new blog or different section of this blog for my little authors to have their stories published online! How am I going to do this you ask? Well I'm going to be using AudioBoom (a website where you can record things) and also use text to speech on a mac so the kids can read their story and it will type it out for them.
I'm pretty excited to try this idea. I am out sick tomorrow but I'll be telling my kids about this idea on Thursday. I'm hoping it will get them excited about writing. I love writing but I've just been struggling with how to get the kids excited in Kindergarten because so many of them just either "don't know what to write" (even though they can tell you the most amazing stories verbally) or those that just want to copy what you write.
I'll be sure to write about how it goes once I get it off the ground.
Update: If you would like me to post one of your student's writing publications, please feel free to e-mail me and I will be happy to post it! It should be full of lots of kinder authors, not just mine. It could be a picture, or a picture with an audio recording (I will figure out how get it on there).
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