Ms. De Santis’ Blog

Enjoy this Photopeach created by third grade teacher Adrienne Visone!  Her students completed the “How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin Project. Can you count how many pumpkin stations they enjoyed? Everyone (myself included) had a magnificent time exploring language, science, art, and math skills- all with a pumpkin theme. (My favorite station was word making!)

Classroom newsletters are an excellent way to keep parents informed.  So how would a monthly video newsletter work?  April Magistro is using animoto to summarize the month’s activities and share the experiences with her first grade parents.

What do parents think?   ”Watching the video make us feel like part of your class.” and “Cannot wait until November’s video mail comes!”

Think of how you could use this as part of an end of year presentation as well! If you need an animoto account (or if your account has expired), please email www.animoto.com/education and apply for a teacher account.

Why create a poster with paper and glue when you can create an online version with videos, animation, and more!  Try glogster (the education version is located here).  Play the record player (lower right) and listen to the sound.

You can create up to 200 student accounts quickly.  I am seeking a class who would be interested in glogging- will it be your class?

Have you seen voki?  You can make an avatar, record (or type) a message- then you can position yourself on the web.  I’ve made a sample of this free application.  Think of kids might be engaged if your voki announced the do now?

Get a Voki now!