Share Student Digital Work

Whenever I discuss technology and science instruction I always want to share my students' amazing work and let their voices be heard. Even if I wanted to take my students and ipads out with me this is often not possible. One of the best ways to share with people is to have work available online, but that limits the sharing to only the work.

In my recent trip to Atlanta to present with Jennie Magiera and Anita Huffman I wanted to bring my students into the room. I thought about how to share the students work and also have it feel as if they were presenting the work. I took pictures of students and used the Snapseed app to adjust the pictures. I then had students do a quick voice recording on croak.it to introduce themselves and also the work. The next step was to link both the work and the voice recording to QR codes. I printed the pictures and attached the QR codes.

A great way to share students and their work with a larger audience!

Science Content through iMovie Trailers

I shared a few of these in my last presentation.  Again thanks to Craig Dwyer for having his trailer planning sheets on the web and shares widely.  I let my students decide what they wanted to "teach" to others, join a like-minded team and get to work.  One idea that I would do differently is talk through with kids about "examples" a bit more.  Many of my students just searched for pictures of the content: water cycle, pulley, etc instead of looking to break down the ideas to explain them better.  Here are two of the star iMovie trailers.

Enjoy

Food Chain

The Food Chain from Autumn Laidler on Vimeo.

Levers

Levers from Autumn Laidler on Vimeo.