More With Comic Life
Enhancing learning by using technology to make visual connections has been a goal of ours in Kindergarten this year. I have been trying to use powerpoints to make visual connections to songs we use to learn skills or concepts. I was exploring one of our new Jack Hartmann CD's when I came across the song Benny the Blending Baboon. It just jumped out as one to be made into a fun powerpoint. After googling some great baboon photos I just needed a way to display them. The templates in Comic Life were perfect. I picked one with three frames on top and one on the bottom. Each frame on top contained the baboon with a dialog bubble containing a letter and the bottom frame contained the baboon with a dialog bubble containing the whole word. The kids just loved reading/singing along with the slides!
(I tried to insert an example here, but after trying to upload the photo three times and getting an error from blogger three times, I gave up for today!)
To extend the lesson I will take individual photos of the kids and put them in the same template in the Comic Life program. Print them and then the students can choose a word from our word family lists they would like to show how to blend. They can write in the letters and words on their paper. We can put them together into a great "blending" book to use as one of our Home and Back books to share with parents.
1 Comments:
Kim,
Let's do our next plan day breakfast on Comic Life classroom uses. Keep a good list of all of the things you have tried and be ready to share a bunch!
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