Please consider this post a test. I have not posted anything to this blog for five years. Now that I am teaching in my own classroom, I think that I will use this as a place to post updates, snow day work, and more. We'll see.
This fall, I am going to use my blog as a staging area for digital artifacts that I might use during my student teaching. Here are a few Great Depression artifacts:
OK - Voki is yet another cool tool. I can't wait to show my son how to create an avatar. If he reacts to this tool in the same way he reacted to Picassohead, my inbox is going to be full of talking snowmen and who knows what else.
So, this was another straightforward activity. I have uploaded my Self Introduction to Google Docs. It took me a little while to figure out how to turn on my readability statistics (Mac user), but I eventually found the right page under Preferences --> Spelling and Grammar. For what it's worth, the document's Flesch Reading Ease score was 74.7 and the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level was 6.4.
Voki was super-easy to use - and fun. Just a matter of registering an email address and a password and off you go. Meet my avatar:
Relationship to Standards - the Voki activity relates well to the following standards: 2(a) in that Voki allows teachers to design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity; 3(a) in that the use of Voki demonstrates fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations; and 3(c) in that the use of Voki allows educators to communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital age media and formats.
