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Storybook Playhouse at the Dallas Arboretum
What a fun exhibit! Throughout the grounds there are themed playhouses based on a variety of children’s literature selections. I’m thinking Field Trip opportunity deluxe, and of course a technology/media opportunity as well.
1. Challenge your students to read one or more of the 14 different books on display and prepare a book report to be videoed at the playhouse on a field trip.
2. Visit each of the playhouses, and video someone reading the summaries of each story and then select your favorites to read.
3. After visiting the playhouses at the Arboretum choose a new story to read and design your own playhouse and write your own review.
4. Use the format on display to write future book reports.
At the Dallas Arboretum website you can view a list of the 14 books, a brief summary of each, and a video clips about the construction of the playhouses currently on display.
http://dallasarboretum.org/Events/StoryBook%20Playhouses.htm
There is an old oak tree in my backyard that I’ve nicknamed “Leo the Late Bloomer”. The reason why is that right now when all of the other foliage is showing typical signs of spring this old tree is still hanging on to dried up leaves from last season. This is case year after year, and it does eventually catch up!
So what does this have to do with technology? Well, I wonder how many of you out there reading this blog post might be “Late Bloomers” or at least know one or two. In this information age, technology resources for teaching, learning, and networking are aplenty! What new technologies have you added to your arsenal of tools, or are you still holding on to the old stuff, like my old oak? Don’t be “Leo the Late Bloomer” and have to catch up later, just pick one tool/application now and start exploring!
Here are a few places to start, all of which are FREE resources…
For Social and Professional Networking: Twitter, Facebook, and Ning.
For Blogs and Wikis: Edublogs, Blogger, Wikispaces, and Wetpaint.
For Creating Media: PhotoStory, Movie Maker, iMovie, Animoto, and 12 Seconds.
More fun tools for learning: Newspaper Clip Generator and Vocaroo.
