[LM_NET] HIT:xtranormal

[Elizabeth Van Pate <evanpate@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Original Post:  Anybody out there using xtranormal? If so, will you please provide 
guidance? I will post a hit. 
Got the idea from this video showing students requesting differentiated 
instruction. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsqneAIEG4s


Responses:

 

1. I wanted to see how it worked, so I created one to welcome kids back to the 
library at the beginning of the school year. Here's the link: 
http://www.xtranormal.com/profile/875331/

2. I use xtranormal with my kids. We're currently doing booktalks. One of my LA 
teachers and I collaborated to use it as an assessment for a novel they read in 
lieu of a traditional book report. The created animated characters who discussed 
the book. The kids loved it once we worked out the kinks.

 

3. I think, but I'm not sure, you have to pay with points to have certain features 
and abilities. I was so excited because it was relatively easy to use. 

 

4. Although I haven't used it with a class yet, our fourth grade teacher, with whom 
I work closely, had her students create "interviews" with persons from the 
Revolutionary War Era.  They wrote questions and answers first, checking in books 
for accuracy, then created the interviews online.  


Thanks to those who responded.


Elizabeth Van Pate 
Media Specialist 
Mancelona Public Schools 
Mancelona, MI
Strong Kids, Strong Education



                                          
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