How are stars born?
In this podcast, Rachel (age 7) and Wesley discuss some questions about how stars are born.
http://cinch.fm/wfryer/talkingscience/247407
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Rachel Introduces The Starfish
1st Grade Back to School Night
Last week was “back to school night” for primary grades at our elementary school. Rachel took some time to show and explain what she does in class with writing, art, math, and in other subjects in this eight minute video. I edited this with iMovie on my iPhone, but the final video was so big (over 600 MB) I had to transfer it to my computer before uploading to YouTube. Rachel recorded this in two pieces and I did a simple video join/combine in iMovie for iPhone.
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Lighthouse Keeping in New Zealand in the 1960s
This evening Rachel and I read “A birthday at the lighthouse” by Robin Robilliard on my iPad. It’s a free book in the International Children’s Digital Library.
You’ll also be sure to find the plumber Columbus ga if you want with endless textures, colors, and fixtures. Don’t waste your time searching for anything else.
Rachel was pretty surprised to learn the family had to make their own clothes, give themselves haircuts, and didn’t appear to have any television or computer access. We do live in a different world!
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Going to the zoo
Hello. This is going to the zoo. I hope you love it! I made this from Story Patch on the iPad. Story Patch created the story when I answered the questions. Then I put in pictures.
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What Do Rachel’s Parents Do?
Today Rachel invited Shelly and I to share a short presentation in her 1st grade class, because this week she was “Pooh’s Special Friend.”
We were asked to share some information with the class about what we do in our jobs, and especially if we use reading and math in our jobs. This was our presentation. The audio recording runs 21 minutes, 20 seconds.
These were the stuffed animals Rachel brought from home this week, as “Pooh’s Special Friend.”
I shared Rachel’s “Getting a New Haircut” VoiceThread, as well as her Zebra Print show from the zoo with her class on my iPad during our ‘talk.’
We passed out slips of paper to all the students with the web address of Rachel’s web show (www.thezebraprint.com) with all her classmates, so they’d be able to go home and see more of her shows!
Learning about Scratch Basics
Sarah and Rachel recorded this fourteen minute Cinchcast with me today discussing their initial experiences learning how to create with Scratch software from MIT. They discussed learning how to move Sprites, about costumes, loops, coordinate geometry basics, and more. Download Scratch for free from scratch.mit.edu.
Scratch resources from my Fall 2010 undergraduate course, “Computers in the Classroom,” are available on wiki.powerfulingredients.com/Home/cic/resources/scratch.
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Lessons Learned from Oregon Trail
Rachel played Oregon Trail yesterday on dad’s iPhone and shared some of her lessons learned using Cinch.
Family Thanksgiving Photos
Animal adoption resources and VoiceThreads
Rachel, I’m thinking the following resources would be of interest to you since you are very interested in animals and helping animals.
Pet Finder is a website that shows pictures of animals available for adoption.
The Social Animal is a website and group created by Emily Garman of Oklahoma City to promote adoption of pets.
Several of my students at North Texas have created VoiceThreads about animals and animal adoption this semester, so this got me thinking about these issues. Perhaps you and Sarah could create a Zebra Print show talking about these resources?
This is a VoiceThread one of my students did about adopting dogs.
This is another Voicethread a student did about adopting cats.
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Halloween 2010 Costumes
We had some pretty good looking trick or treaters in our family this year! Rachel and I were in Manhattan, Kansas for Halloween. Shelly posted two photos of Sarah and Alexander in their costumes, so we were able to see them when we were in Kansas, even if we didn’t get to trick or treat together this year.
Family fun at Furrs
Sometimes the best photos are candid shots. These were a few pics we took in September on a Sunday when we went to Furrs downtown. I’d won a Furrs gift card and we used it well. Yum!
Rachel, Sarah and Alexander Reflect on Creativity in our Oklahoma Schools
The 2010 Creativity World Forum is coming to Oklahoma City in two weeks. In advance of the event, Creative Oklahoma is sponsoring a Creativity Contest for Students, who are challenged to:
… show us your creative ideas for improving communities, schools and businesses so that Oklahoma remains a creative frontier. We invite all forms of creativity including, but not limited to, essay, video, photography, drawing, or mixed media.
Here are our entries!
Rachel, 1st Grade (Age 7) – The Importance of Art Class at School and Creativity
Sarah, 5th grade (Age 10) – Laptops, Creativity, and Trusting Students
Alexander, 7th grade (Age 12) – Legos, Creativity, and Schools
This was Rachel’s first take, which we are NOT submitting to the contest.
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Why Rachel chose to be Mulan for Halloween
Rachel explained why she chose to be Mulan for the “storybook parade” at her elementary school this year, and recorded the answer on AudioBoo.
An AudioBoo Hello from UNT
Rachel is with me (Dad) today at the University of North Texas, and among other things is going to teach my pre-service education students about AudioBoo. This was her practice “Hello” on AudioBoo this morning.