We are just wrapping up our Body and Senses theme this week. One of the activities that we usually do after learning the names of the parts of the body is to have the students talk about how a time when they hurt a part of their body and then label the parts of the body to create a class boo-boo book.
I am always looking for ways to meaningfully integrate technology into the curriculum in a way that engages the students, so it occurred to me that rather that just scribe what the students are saying for their boo boo stories, I could record their stories. I used the app croak it, which is a free iphone app in the itunes store. It's a simple, easy to use app that records up to 30 seconds of voice recording and stores it online. I then used the links from croak it to go the website QR Code Generator to create individual QR codes linked to each students voice recording. I printed the QR codes and attached it to their work so that students and their parents can scan the code and hear the child actually telling the story. The students were so excited to hear themselves! It was great too because a couple of students were able to identify the fact that they speak too soft or too fast or are too wordy (croak.it only records up to 30 seconds), so it was great for them to notice that and work on self-correcting.
Here's how the final product came out. It was great to see parents scanning their child's work at dismissal today and hearing the stories they tell at school!
Scan this QR code to hear a sample story:
If you have any great suggestions for how to use technology in the early childhood classroom, leave a comment!
I am always looking for ways to meaningfully integrate technology into the curriculum in a way that engages the students, so it occurred to me that rather that just scribe what the students are saying for their boo boo stories, I could record their stories. I used the app croak it, which is a free iphone app in the itunes store. It's a simple, easy to use app that records up to 30 seconds of voice recording and stores it online. I then used the links from croak it to go the website QR Code Generator to create individual QR codes linked to each students voice recording. I printed the QR codes and attached it to their work so that students and their parents can scan the code and hear the child actually telling the story. The students were so excited to hear themselves! It was great too because a couple of students were able to identify the fact that they speak too soft or too fast or are too wordy (croak.it only records up to 30 seconds), so it was great for them to notice that and work on self-correcting.
Here's how the final product came out. It was great to see parents scanning their child's work at dismissal today and hearing the stories they tell at school!
Scan this QR code to hear a sample story:
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