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Le Grand Finale!

At the Rescue of the Fine Arts in Education!

Join me in a trip to show you how significant can be the integration and development of Fine Arts to motivate students to education, and use technology to display
Le Grand Finale.  Did you know that Fine Arts could be support it by the Multiple Intelligence theory and Brain Research findings?
Please, help us to maintain the Fine Arts alive!

PE9_CAST UDL Book Builder... The End :(

A significant aspect of CAST DL Book Builder is the integration of brain research approach... this deserve a big wave!

While I was surfing into their site, I found valuable information that reactivate my prior knowledge about Multiple Intelligences, Learning Styles, and Brain Research approach.  They are base on brain research approach focusing specifically on three principals of brain network (see chart).

Courtesy of teachersfirst.com

Recognition Networks

The "what" of learning

Strategic Networks

The "how" of learning

Affective Networks

The "why" of learning

How we gather facts and categorize what we see, hear, and read. Identifying letters, words, or an author's style are recognition tasks.

Planning and performing tasks. How we organize and express our ideas. Writing an essay or solving a math problem are strategic tasks.

How learners get engaged and stay motivated. How they are challenged, excited, or interested. These are affective dimensions.

Present information and content in different ways

Differentiate the ways that students can express what they know

Stimulate interest and motivation for learning

More ways to provide
Multiple Means of
Representation

More ways to provide
Multiple Means of
Action and Expression

More ways to provide
Multiple Means of
Engagement

PE8_CAST UDL Book Builder... continue!

At this time, we will see a final product model of Book Builder:

Courtesy of: http://teachersfirst.com/20/getsource.cfm?id=8060

When the book is done, the reader just have to click on each page arrow to pass the pages and have to choice of listen to the narrator or read it independently.  During creation time of this book you can add your background music to the narration to make it more pleasurable to the listener.  

Another advantages I found with this tool is that you can edit your book and modify it as you please.  You can create a series of book!  Also, glossary words are underlined, so when you click on the word it take the reader to another page with definition and picture you selected.  I consider this tool very valuable because provide diverse stimulus for children to learn.  It could be use as an assessment tool to evaluate student's acquired knowledge and their application.  All at your finger click!

PE7_CAST UDL Book Builder

The Book Builder is a tool that promotes creativity and can be used in all teaching subject areas and for different levels of learning. In addition to writing, editing and choosing pictures for the creation of your book, you can also add audio clips, glossary and more. Books can be created online, download it, print it, and even share them with others through the public library.  

The discovery of this tool has led me to expand my knowledge of how to offer students options to improve their learning skills in a more innovative and attractive ways. I consider it a great tool for Personalized Learning because I can create projects appropriate for the students needs and interest.

It's not that complicated to use, each facilitate the interest of educators to use. All you need to do is, select the type of book, grade level, audience, and subject area to be use. This help us as educator to focus in specific target areas need it for a group of students or individually.

Then, the action begin!  You star choosing the setting, characters, etc. for your story... you can even hear the voice of each character you choose, amazing!  Also, uploading your own pictures is possible. 

Now, time to create your text.  Pick your page layout for each page you will include on your book.  In which one, you can add illustrations, audio, text, etc.  Even a space for students response area.

Follow me for the next steps on my next blog!

PE6_Google Doc

Another area of interest I have learn about Google Doc is the creation of documents online, uploading media documents and getting organized.  Google Doc provide for the creation of diverse folders where you can storage your documents by categories chosen.

For me is very practical to have everything in one place, saving time to access the variety of documents I'll be working on, such as: Full Sail, school, personal, and non-profit organization/ministry.  What I love about it?  All at my finger tip or mouse click!  All documents in one place but in different archives.  Great organizational tool for a multitask world we are living in, with so much technology integration taking place, today and for the future as Mr. Shirky exposed in his presentation.

This is one of the simplest tools I experienced, but powerful in usage.  Imagine, you have the opportunity not only to share written documents but media resources too... is it that fantastic?  Yes, because I can share videos, Power Point presentations, and more without the hurdle of sending e-mails that the recipient will not be able to open due on limited space.

Google Doc  tool that provide diversity for a mobile office at the click of your mouse!