5+AHA+Moments

2. In 2 weeks, explore **5** of your classmates' wikispaces and find an "AHA Moment" from each site. In the discussion area, of Marian Online, explain what you found. [] This website really caught my attention because first I have a brother-in-law that is serving his second tour of duty in Afghanistan now. It is very important because they bring up a couple great PodCasts. They make ones for soldiers who are overseas in the military and the soldiers like to hear what is going on in their hometown. I would never of thought of that, but when you think of it, this is a super way to communicate with soldiers from Wisconsin overseas and any other place in the United States. This would be a tool that I think would be beneficial for all the families and soldiers that are serving our country overseas. They will be able to hear their local news and events that are going on back in their hometown. a place just south of LaCrosse. It made me go "AHA"! [] This is a super way to show students how to Podcast. It even is a great tool to teach teachers on how to do it too! The students today learn through visuals. It goes through step by step instructions on how to integrate it into your curriculum and at the end they list many ways you could integrate it. I like how they show students making it. It made me go "AHA"!

[] This one appealed to me because we do interviews in 5th grade. We always have a few students that have a hard time writing. This will option would be a great one for those students. It would be more work, but it would motivate them to write their script out. Our special education students would love doing this and maybe would help them to be successful in language arts. Also, you don't need expensive equipment to make these. Just a computer with a microphone jack and a microphone. It made me go "AHA"!

[] This one from Duane was very interesting! I never thought of Special Education students listening to the WKCE on an iPod! This would be super for students that need the test read to them and they can have it repeated over an over. It would also allow them to stay in the regular ed. classroom. I will probably bring this up to oour special education teachers at my school. I know they will be getting the economic stimulus money for the next two years and maybe they can purchase a couple? It made me go "AHA"!

[] Nicole posted this one in which there is many uses for IPods in education. They go through students listening to books that are read to them, listening to famous speeches, making a Podcast for interviewing a person in the community, physical education class where students count calories on the Nike application, and some other ones. It states many that could be easily intergrated in any grade level. It made me go "AHA"!