BP8_Active Allowance

The tool I found for this week was Active Allowance. 

This tool allows you as a parent or a teacher to set up a chore or responsibility checklist for each of their children or students. These checklists can be personally colored for your child to help them personalize their checklists and make them more fun. 

Once you have your design set up you can add your own personalized responsibility list for each student. You can print these lists off so that the child can have a tangible sheet of paper to help remember what their responsibilities are. As the child completes their daily chores they can check them off and at the end of the day they need to get a signature from either an adult in the room our you can set up a peer checking system to check that their work is actually done and done to a satisfactory quality. As the children get their responsibilities done you award them points. These points can be seen online at any time by the child as long as they know how to log into their chart. 

You can set up an allowance system to correspond with how many points they earn a week. Being in a classroom you probably wont want to use real money. But they can earn online monies that can be printed out and turned in for really anything. You can have some smaller prizes for students or you can give them the option to save up for a bigger prize like extra recess, or to able to pick a game for the afternoon, or be in charge for a day. 

This site not only allows you to start teaching kids responsibility for themselves by assigning them everyday chores to complete on their own without you having to remind the fifteen times it usually takes.  It also helps teach them the responsibility of earning and saving for bigger more exciting prizes. For the younger kids it also helps teach addition and subtraction, by figuring out how much they need to earn for things, or how much they have left after getting a prize.

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BP7_OMM_MoshiMonsters

PE3_iMovie

You can change the pictures n certain themes, for example in the photo book. Change the pictures viewed during transitions to see more than the two it is switching between.

Cut off pictures. You can add a picture over another picture and go back and fourth between each. Changing the sound between the two also. 

Now that I have completed my iMovie training. I look forward to exploring and using all the new things I learned to make movies that flow better and look prettier. 

PE2_iMovie

Continuing in my iMovie adventure

Who knew? You can add beat markers to make a slide show snap to the beats of the music you are playing to make it flow better.

You can turn down certain parts of the background music so that you can hear a person speaking the foreground. 

Using the precision editor you can move sounds around, decide when and where to switch clips over, and help manage transitions.

Picture in picture!!! Wow what a find. You can add pictures within other pictures. Edit their size, and switch between the two mid clip if you want.

PE1_iMovie

Starting my iMovie training has been good. Im learning lots of new little tricks that I did not know before and dont think I could have discovered on my own. 

Here they explained how you can add the ambient noise from one clip onto another clip that may not have sound itself, or may not be sounds you want for your movie. You do this using the audio adjustments for that clip.

In this one they were talking about how to edit clips in your video. You can see the entire clip of the part you selected and move the ends to get just the exact parts you want. They also talked about slip video, or how you can slide the clip bar over the video to choose a new part to show.

BP4_YacaPaca

This Web2.0 tool I found is called YacaPaca. This site allows a teacher to organize a class list and create tests, quizzes, and surveys for each student. The students each have their own log in and can design their own page. Once the teacher has added an assignment to their page they can take it. This allows you as a teacher to personalize some things for each student. Maybe one student needs more help in one area than another. This can give them more practice, while keeping the class engaged in their own lessons. Or you can test you kids all together on a unit you just finished. This site gives instant feedback to the students if they got answers right or wrong. It also allows you as a teacher to go and and see scores from your entire class in one window. This gives you almost no grading time, which is always a nice break for teachers :).

You can find quizzes that are pre-made and assign them to your students or create your own. 

You can design your front page to explain directions to each student before they get started along with letting them know of any time limits they have to answer the questions. 

Tool can be used for any subject. This one is a multiplication test used to help the students work on their speed of answering questions. 

This quiz is working on root words in language arts.