Final Flat Stanley Video

This is the combined video footages that we took through the Flat Stanley Project:
ENJOY!

Flat Stanley Videos

This is a video clip of students writing their journal entries
of the things they did with their flat friend:



URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udeGvO3guOs


This is a video clip of the students with their flat friend at the
Peace builder ceremony at San Antonio Elementary:



URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt6UE0JaXM8

* Check back for more video clips of this project

Flat Stanley Photos

Hi everyone,
These are photos that we took of our 3rd grade students of San Antonio Elementary School doing the Flat Stanley Project.

If the slideshow doesn't work try this link:
http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/dd146/franoraliah/?action=view¤t=3b4de3bf.pbw

Flat Stanley Project!

For the Flat Stanley Project I worked with Corin and Jing. We were able to collaborate with Mrs. Catherine Acera's 3rd Grade Class at San Antonio Elementary School.


- Our lesson plan was based on a series of activities that they needed to complete before we finally sent off the student's Flat Friends. Throughout the whole week the students created their Flat Friend, gave them a name and bring them around wherever they went. They were also keeping journal entries about their adventures with their friend, that they would send to their friends from the other side of the world. The students were able to browse through the Flat Stanley website to look at the different schools that participated in the project and showed them pictures of Flat Stanley's tour around the world. We had the kids use Google earth to view Saipan and other places in the world. We were also able to get video clips of them with their flat friends during the Peace Builder ceremony.

- The experience I gained from working with these 3rd grade students was something that I would never forget. I was able to get to know these kids and I've also learned a lot through them. They were willing to work with our group to make this project a successful one.

- The only down fall of this project was that we haven't gotten any response from the school that we sent the children's flat friends to. Up until this day when the kids see me they'll ask if their package has arrived, so I'm hoping that they'll eventually get a response. The other goods news that the teacher shared with me was that her class received Flat Stanley letters from a 3rd grade class in California, at least this would keep their hopes high as we wait for the one's we sent. The next time I decide to do this, it will be good if I communicate with the school or teacher first before we sent out the package to them, that way we'll guarantee that we will get a response.

- This project was a great learning experience for me. It gave me ideas on how I would do it again when I get into the classroom. This project really gets the students interested because they get a chance to work with other children from different parts of the world and the fact that they will have a treasure that has traveled the different parts of the world. For children, receiving something of any value really gets them excited and eager to see what they've gotten.

My Professional Portfolio

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Photo Bucket Teach Back

My teachback is on "How to use Photobucket"

You can access it from the following link: http://www.slideshare.net/secret/y7iD7nennojlac

In doing this project i've learned to use three different teaching tools that you can integrate into some of your lessons. For my slides I used Power Point, this office tools is beneficial when you are going to present or teach a concept visually. With the Slide Share this online tool makes you keep your slides or pdf files and enables you to share it with friends, families or publishing it out for other peoples use. And lastly, the photo bucket online tool, this tool has alot of creative things that you can do with your images and your created photo albums. Once you upload your photos from your PC into your photobucket account it will always be there and you can do so many things with them, like creating slideshows, adding graphics, borders, and moving objects to them. When you complete it you can share it to your friends and families through email, forums, blogs, and message boards. The site also has millions of images and videos that you can browse through to use and watch.

This thing that I would do differently is to use these tools to do other concept teachings, use it as a tool to show or present some family photos, and also add more pictures, text effects, and sounds. The three tools are useful to integrate into your lesson planning, they liven up your teachings.

You can do so many creative activities with these tools (power point and slideshare). You can have students do country presentations, advertising a product, a family phot0 slide show, displaying charts and graphs, etc. There's so many others and it all depends on how a teacher plans it out to make it a meaningful task.

Journal Writing Rubric

I created my journal-writing rubric at http://www.teach-nology.com/. Part of our lesson plan for the Flat Stanley project is for students to write journal entries on the things that they have done with their flat friend. I like this website because not only does it automatically create the rubric for you, but it also offers activity ideas on different subject areas and subjects. The tool also gives you the option to add an image and also gives you options to choose on how you want to design your expectations. Rubrics are helpful for evaluating student’s work by measuring the product to real life criteria. The expectations vary for each child’s level of expertise. It also helps you plan for instructions on the needed areas that the child is having problems and it gives you an idea of whether the child had grasp the topic or objective of the task.