Ms. Fey's School Daze

I experienced a few challenges making my first podcast this week, but I must admit, although the project was as complex as my Digital Storytelling work, I feel like I hit less bumps in the road this time around. I got my idea to work with poetry performance pretty quickly and I made a sample poetry reading using the same techniques from my Digital Storytelling Youtube video. This time around, however, I used a Quicktime video as my audio source so I could avoid iMovie to put the sound and picture together. Yay! Loading the audio track to Youtube, adding a few pics with transitions and adjusting the timing only took about half an hour! I would assign this kind of project to my students in a heartbeat! But this poem video was just the topic of my podcast. I needed now to record a discussion/lecture about the poem itself. I considered using Quicktime again but discarded this idea almost immediately. It's a very blunt tool and there are no editing capabilities. Much of the material...

My first podcast is about performing poetry, using an Emily Dickinson poem as a specific example. My performance of the poem can be heard in the Youtube video above. The podcast and corresponding show notes are below. Thanks for listening! Here is the link to hear the podcast: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cZLpi86bWDbGZfM3VJVXNJWUk/view?usp=sharing Show Notes Poetry Out Loud recitation contest website: http://www.poetryoutloud.org/ "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - (591)" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45703 A fantastic example of poetry recitation, "Danse Russe" by William Carlos Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pFW7etciz0  The Tone Map and other lesson plans: http://www.poetryoutloud.org/teaching-resources/lesson-plans Script: Today we're going to be discussing of one my favorite poems, Emily Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - (591)" and tips for performing ...

Digital Storytelling Lesson Reflection Blog Post: Weigh the benefits and challenges that you anticipate from integrating video into your classroom. How can you best leverage this original content to provide your students with enhanced learning opportunities? How can you integrate these resources into your curriculum in a meaningful way for your students? Well, I spent so many hours this week working on the Digital Storytelling unit, reading up on resources and making my video project and hitting the wall with tech problems and trouble-shooting and on and on, but (hopefully) ta-da! Here it is! Or here: Introduction to Archetypes I'd like to share my process of creating this project with you so I can document and learn from what worked well and more importantly, WHAT DID NOT! I knew I wanted to work with the topic of archetypes because many English teachers of freshmen structure their year through study of the thematic archetypes of The Golden Age, The God-T...

21st Century Citizenship Lesson Activity Design a curricular lesson which embeds one major theme from the Cornell University Digital Literacy Resource site. The Digital Literacy (DL) component should not necessarily be the focus of the lesson, rather cover the curricular content while including DL as an aspect of the lesson.  Here is my lesson plan for Mockingground: An INTRODUCTION TO INTERNET RESEARCH exploring the Cultural and Historical Background of To Kill a Mockingbird aligned with ISTE Student Standards. Here is a detailed list of instructions for the eight activities students will undergo in my Mockingground lesson plan. 21st Century Citizenship Lesson Reflection Review the District 219 Internet Safety materials . Blog Post: Reflect on how one establishes a classroom culture where st...