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Students have created a Positive Action skit that we use in assemblies as cooperative groups throughout the year. This group of students created the script for this movie, casted it, brought in costumes and assigned a student to do the video taping and sound. After importing the footage into iMovie they reshot some shots and edited in teams.

Students wrote Pourquoi tales in teams and created a podcast of their stories. We read Pourquoi tales as a part of our grade level curriculum and checked out other books from the library. Students listened to examples of even more stories as a read-a-loud. They blogged 5 questions from nature that they could think of as their

Four students wrote the script for the Positive Word of the week, "courage". They decided to bring costumes and use the idea of the Wizard of Oz. As we were writing the script, they were planning their costumes and screen shots.

Our class demonstrated the Positive action word of the week. We weekly write scripts and film the word of the week. We edit in co-operative groups.

Using the story Maria Isabel, I plan to read with a small group from the story. We will stop at intervals where students will predict and infer from what was read giving details for why they believe their prediction will happen. I plan to develop a chart with questions to help students focus their answers and record if their predictions were correct. I will train one child from each group to download the audio files in the computer from voice memos. I set up student smart play lists. I will train the student downloading to name the files from each iPOD at once so that they are loaded into their smart playlists and then delete the recordings.

Students were supposed to describe the vocabulary word as if they were talking to someone that couldn't see, like the girl in the story. Many students had trouble with this concept. They are the lower 20% of the grade level and continued to give a definition. I felt that it was a quality project, but that we needed to spend more time on using a definition to describe something.

I created a podcast from my slides in a Keynote presentation posing questions for students to answer on our field-trip.

They will bring a camera and an iPOD per group with a parent. Students practiced using the recording device in Mobile Studios before the trip I used.

I created questions from the museum wesite explaining the exhibits.

I created questions using different kinds of comprehension skills including summary, inference, questioning, evaluation and making predictions using given information.

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As students continue to struggle with the formulas for area perimeter and volume, we made a sequel to last year's Gingie's Math House.  Students used three programs Crazy Talk, Frames and Final cut Pro to edit video with.

We read how to make a paper dragon in our anthology. Students wrote their own directions and made the dragon following the directions. They used images taken from the directions in the book and recorded how to make the dragon. At the end they took a picture of their dragon and put it in the podcast.