This clip is a few years old now- but I uploaded it for a number of reasons. Chrissie was working with the Foundation for the blind and is an extremely talented educator to support visually impaired children and adults. She is very innovative and reflective about what works for the learners in question. The Kindergarten she talks about is one I know well ( having been there when she discovered voice thread) and we as a team rose to her challenge to use ICT to give the kindergarten child a voice as well as her extended family and support network. Not only did this child have a blog where all the players could view interpreted data and primary data and put their own lens of interest on it... but the voice thread tool let them articulate it with audio, video or text so the learner could be engaged. I wish I could show you the voice threads themselves but I don't have permission for this. Here's a demo of the tool to see what I mean about using it for multiple assessment opportunities..... if you want to take a peek click on the coloured text to
check it out
this looks really collaborative...and really hard... how could you manage it with everything else we do?
ReplyDeleteI guess it's the same as everything else-one step at a time! Maybe don't try and learn 90 things in the same month. I didn't find it hard to comment on the voice thread made around the video of one of our teachers helping a visually impaired child voice over her photostory about her new dolls house, her family mastered it too. I'd love to see how a kindergarten went taking this small tool and using it to invite multiple perspectives.... and analyzing the impact at the end of a self review........ very 'Te Manawa'!
ReplyDeletethe way you can doodle on it makes it easier to convey your meaning I bet...
ReplyDeleteI confess I haven't tried to do that as of yet.. but I agree....
ReplyDelete