Student+Collaboration+and+Communication

Cool thing: ladies use Audacity for kids in FIRST GRADE to record their KidWriting, then post it on their class webpage so parents/grandparents etc. can see/hear what they're up to!
 * __Making Reading and Writing Interactive (Melissa Beal & Sheila Boyd)__** Meghan Snavely-Farr
 * tour of websites used in classrooms (all free). Need ways to make kids interested in reading and writing again.
 * Scholastic has lots of podcasts, games, and author talks/ interviews. Prof development videos. Book trailers for 39 Clues, scrapbook page (with cover, author info, synopsis)
 * Interactive Books: google it. lots for free, see scholastic. Rick Riordan, Patrick Carman (//Skeleton Creek// and //Trackers// series- FBI interrogation of boy who hacks into the internet).
 * Read Alouds: Storyline online is cool- free streaming video of famous people reading books. follow up with questions about story elements.
 * Interactive Whiteboard Sites: google it. lots of free sites to utilize whiteboard.
 * Audacity: free software that lets you record, edit, and share sound files. Can see your voice- including with intonation and expression. Pair with Animoto to add sound to picture slide show. (HAVE KIDS READ THEIR STORY WITH THE ILLUSTRATION TO UPLOAD!) Make advertisements for new/favorite books. Will want headset with a microphone so that the kids will be easier to hear when they record.
 * interactivereadingandwriting@wikispaces.com for all resources covered today.