Activity 3: I finally did the story. I used Zooburst. It was more difficult to use than I anticipated. Once I figured out the process of editing it was much easier. This book, which is extremely short/simple, took me about 2.5 hours to make. I'm sure they would go faster now that I know the process. I will probably use the book in an introductory lesson to the class (only because it took so long to make). I am not a huge fan of the "story book" idea for high school; however, I think I made it work. It would be great for primary grades.
Click on the link below to view the story.
http://www.zooburst.com/book/zb01_51af5e643e6f9
Jenny, great idea for how to use this tool with older students. I especially like the concept of "what is your brain good at?" and using those strengths to help the weaknesses. This gave me an idea for using a book to explain the "speech machine" for students working on fluency.
ReplyDeleteActually, you made this work for high school quite well! It's kind of a goofy medium but fun to try something different to cover the same material with students. I'm glad you stuck it out.
ReplyDeleteThere is a way to embed your Zooburst into your blog instead of just linking it-- this proves more visually dynamic. I'll be sending info about embedding to campers this week.
Just catching up to you now, so this is coming a bit late! It would be fun to work together on some of these things that could be used in the weekly speech/lang group (jazz it up a little for kids)...now that they are familiar with the questions/connections/comments we use with them, I think we should collaborate and come up with more options using something like this....now, if only we had the time to do that!!!
ReplyDeleteI agree that Zooburst was a little difficult to use and that it is probably more geared toward elementary students. You ended up with a great book though!
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