You Tube in the library

I found some You Tube videos to use in the library next year.

Arthur and the Library Card


D.W.'s Library Card


Arthur's Lost Library Book Part 1


Arthur's Lost Library Book Part 2

11.5 More Things - Thing 11.5

This has been another exciting technology journey for me. I have enjoyed learning about all the other "things" out there. My favorite by far had to have been the Glog. I am going to use that with my 4th graders next year. I can not wait to share this with the teachers. They are going to be amazed. What a great way for them to do their Texas Region reports.
Through this program and the 23 Things program I have learned so much. I am even facilitating an online technology discovery program within my own district. I will now have to continue to grow so that I can provide for the folks in my district as well as my own campus.
The only part of this journey that was surprising was Second Life. I was excited to try it and then once there I did not like it at all. I felt very uncomfortable using it. Not to mention it crashed my computer several times. I uninstalled that program and will probably never use it again.
I appreciate this program being opened to people from other districts. Your time and talents are to be applauded.

11.5 More Things - Thing 11

Digital Citizenship is an important part of the curriculum for all students. At my school we start with Internet safety at the Kindergarten. I have found many websites with game like activities that teach students about how to be safe, smart digital citizens online. On our intranet, we have different pages for each grade, and the first lessons that each grade does in the beginning of the school year is on Internet safety and digital citizenship. Each grade has a different lesson so that the lessons are not duplicated, and each lesson builds upon the things learned previously. As the students move through the lessons, they start to learn more about cyber safety, personal protection, and authenticity of information. By the time they leave us in 4th grade they have had 5 years of lessons on digital citizenship. At the end of each school year in May, the teachers spend a week with lessons that the district has developed on digital citizenship. I feel that it is important for the students to be reminded before the long days of summer, what their rights and responsibilities are for online use.
During the school year, in the library, I contiune with the lessons in the computer lab by teaching the children about checking resources, looking at the ends of URL's to determine where the sites are from and ways to evaluate what they are reading online.
It takes constant attention from, teachers, parents and peers to help our students become good digital citizens.

11.5 More Things - Thing 10

Virtual Worlds! - Wow this was an interesting experience. I created my avatar and entered Second World no problem, however there was this guy who would not leave me alone. I was going through the first 6 learning instructions, to learn how to walk, sit, fly, transport, etc. He kept following me and trying to have a conversation, I kept nicely telling him to go away, but to no avail. He even followed me when I transported to a clothing store - Creepy! I was really glad when Second life crashed and my whole computer restarted to be honest. As neat as the experience was, it was very uncomfortable having that guy bothering you.
I do not think I would use this in any way with my elementary students. I would not even expose them to just watching, because of what just happened. It would be a great way to teach bullying, but not at an elementary level.

11.5 More Things - Thing 9

Prior to this weeks activities I had never heard about Slideshare. I had heard about Power Point sharing through Google docs. This does seem to be a better way to handle collaboration of student's work. It seems to be more efficient. I can see the potential that tools like this one have. Before you would take the kids to the lab and everyone would open Power point, create their slide and then you would copy and paste each presentation onto a file and then merge the presentations. This tool allows the students to all work on the same presentation at the same time. It also gives a much neater way to present the iformation. Since it can be uploaded to blogs or webpages, it allows the students to share their work at home with their parents. Also, since these programs are web based students can work on projects outside the school day.
I belive that these tools will greatly enhance the productivity of the students.

11.5 More Things - Thing 8

I love being able to do a screencast! This willl be so time saving in the future. Atomic Learning look out!
I created a short video on how to configure clip art using Screencast-o-matic. It was easy to use and created a good quality video in a short amount of time. I always have people call me and tell me that they want to include photos or clip art in the documents or presentations but get frustrated because they can not manipulate the image.
Unfortunately I can not get the video to load into Blogger. I saved it as a MP4 movie and I have uploaded videos in the past, however...........
Blogger shows that the video is uploading, it goes through the whole process, shows the black box for the video and then when you go to play it it says error, video can not be played check back later. I am very, very, very, very frustrated!
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

11.5 More Things - Thing 7

I have looked at all the video sites. Hulu will be great when you are needing a clip from a tv show or movie.
Blinkx has some wonderful videos that would be great to use to collaborate with teachers in the classroom, since it is a video search engine all the videos are in one place so you are not having to search multiple sites for the same topic.
The PBS and National archives sites had some great video to share for history and science topics.
I love the totlol site. I teache in a PreK-4 school and I am always looking for new things to use with Pre-K. The videos on this site fit that bill! I also teach a year long unit on Nursery Rhymes to Kinder so the videos here that have the rhymes being read are great. I plan on setting up stations next year when we do the rhyme and having the students watch them being read and doing a craft activity with the kids for each rhyme so these will tie in great.
http://www.totlol.com/collection_videos?c=2401 this is the link to the collection of videos. You have to go to You Tube to get the embed codes.


I found this video on the Frog Prince. Our 3rd grade teachers do a unit on Fairy tales so I plan on using this in the library and comparing this version to the one they read in class.
Blip TV - Frog Prince