iPad Story
Click through the slideshow above to read "Cricket's Choir" or visit this link to hear the read aloud version. Visit this link to read the story's script.
iPad Story
Project Description:
For this project, preservice teachers used the StoryKit application to publish a story with origional text and images. My partner, Maddie Caldwell, and I incorporated digitally edited photographs into our book and then recorded a voice over so that students using the StoryKit application can simply click on the sound icon to have the story read out loud.
Standards Met:
ISTE:
1) Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity.
2) Design and devleop digital age learning experiments and assessments.
3) Model digital age work and learning.
4) Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility
Standards Met
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NC Professional Teaching:
Standard II: Teachers provide an environment in which each child has a positive nurturing relationship with caring adults.
Standard III: Teachers align their instruction with the NC Standard course of study. Teachers know the content appropriate to their teaching specialty. Teachers recognize the interconnectedness of content area disciplines.
Standard IV: Teachers know the ways in which learning takes place, and they know the
appropriate levels of intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of their students.
Teachers plan appropriate instruction for their students. Teachers use a variety of instructional methods. Teachers integrate and utiilize technology in their instruction. Teachers communicate effectively.
Standard V: Teachers function effectively in a complex, dynamic environment.
21st Century Skills:
-Learning and innovation skills
-Core subjects 3Rs and 21st century themes
-Information, media, and technology skills