Alicia+Schordine

Alicia Schordine //twitter:// aschordine //**Edutopia's New Teacher Boot Camp Portfolio**//

Week One: Wordle - part two
I really liked the idea of using wordle to help students in the editing/revision stage of their writing, so I decided to take a segment of a short story I wrote to check out my word usage. While some words were intentionally repeated, I find my use of the word "many" a little surprising! I think this is a fantastic tool to help students to revise their work. After all what is revision but re-visioning? Wordle used in this manner really does enable you to //re-vision// your work through a different lens.



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Week Two: Voice Thread
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A Voice Thread on the essential question of my thesis: Feel free to respond!
 * How do you feel arts integration prepares students to meet the four C’s of 21st Century Learning? (Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity) **


 * Week Three: Storybird **

Eventually I will embed my storybird here, however at the time I am having some technical difficulties with retrieving the embed code from storybird itself. I believe it needs to be moderated before storybird will allow it to be in the public library. I wrote a simple storybird based on the ideas of hopes and dreams, using the artwork as my inspiration and guide. I think this could be a nice introduction for younger children to create a class hopes and dreams storybird. Below is a link to my published storybird in the meantime.

[|Dream Big Storybird] screenshot of my storybird


 * Week Four: Wetoku **

A great, free, no downloads needed video podcast service and collaborative interview tool! Check out my Wetoku for some of the ways I can see this resource being a valuable addition to the classroom!

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**Week Five: Blogs**

It should come as no surprise that I love to write, therefore blogging is something I have done in the past. I have had personal blogs, and even a gluten free cooking blog (if anyone ever wants to chat about living gluten free, let me know!) This however is a new baby, my personal journey as an educator blog. Reflective post on the New teacher Boot Camp coming soon!