Day Three- Friends

Today Leigha and I blogged our effective questioning assignment and wrote a rough copy of our lesson plan that will be associated with the book that we've chosen (Friends). We have our objectives set and our assessment and assignments planned out and everything seemed to fall into place after we decided what our objectives were and how we planned on assessing our assignments. I'm really looking forward to this lesson plan and eventually teaching the lesson. I feel that it will be both educational and fun for our students.


In addition, we would like you to listen to Episode 2 & 3 and give your feed back as to which podcast you think we should use for our lesson, thanks!

Lesson Plan Tools

http://www.first-school.ws/theme/printables/story-paper-drawing.htm <-- story worksheet

Effective Questioning Assignment

Questions for before we read Friends:

1.) Can everyone tell me one activity that is your favorite thing to do? (Give an example for yourself such as: My favorite activity is playing soccer, or reading, or painting, etc.)

2.) Now class, what do you think you would do if didn't like to do the same thing you like to do? )Offer suggestions such as: Would you play by yourself? Or take turns doing the your activity then doing your friend's activity?)

3.) Has anyone ever moved to a new house or new school and had to make new friends? Was it easy or hard to make new friends? What did you do to make new friends?

Questions for after we read Friends:

4.) Do you think that Oscar was being selfish or only thinking about himself in the begining of the story? (If students answer yes, ask them to explain how he was being selfish by giving examples.)

5.) What would you have done if you were Oscar, would you have done the same thing or act differently? How would you act differently? (Explain)

6) What did we learn from Oscar's experience with meeting new people?

Podcasting Friends-Day Two

Today will be our second attempt to podcast the book that we've chosen entitled, Friends. What we would like to accomplish today is to create a final product, meaning a podcast that will be the one we use from now on for this project and will eventually be submitted for grading. I haven't discussed the effective questioning assignment with my partner yet, so I'm not sure whether or not we will be podcasting those questions in addition to the story's podcast, or if we will incorporate the questions into our lesson plan in a different way.

Our first day podcasting we began to get the hang of podcasting even though it wasn't perfect. The few recordings we made were good, but they weren't great, so hopefully today we will be able to create a great podcast!

Podcasting Friends Day One

After a number of attempts to podcast the book "Friends" we've learned that we need to slow down the speed at which we read aloud for two reasons, we rush through the book and we rush through reading and miss words or misread words. Therefore, we were not able to complete our podcasting of ''Friends" today and will have to complete it in our next class on Friday. On other note, our method of taking turns reading one page at a time seemed to work out pretty well, so I think we will continue with this method, unless we come up with another better idea before Friday.

Pre-podcasting

For this podcasting assignment I am working with Leigha Ashmen and we have decided to use the book entitled, "Friends" by Rob Lewis. We just completed our introduction podcast and we're a little behind the rest of the class since we missed our first podcasting class on friday, but we seem to be getting the hang of it. Our plan for podcasting "Friends" is to each take a turn reading a page back and forth until the book has been completely podcasted. We may choose to alter this and have one person read certain characters and the other narrate, but for now we're going to try alternating reading pages first and see how that goes...

Podcasting Introduction

This is our introduction podcast!

http://christinedemed.podomatic.com/entry/2009-09-22T07_08_21-07_00

Podcasting

Honestly, I don't know much at all about podcasting. All that I know is what I've listened to in Dr. Luongo's Tests and Measurements class, were she did the podcasting and I did the listening. I also know that you can download podcasts to your ipod, however I've never done it.