E-Books

Until I took this class I did not even know about e-books. After the Professor showed us a few examples in class I was hooked. It does not take much to amuse me and I thought the e-books were a really fun idea. The next project we had you probably already guessed it by now was doing an e-book review. There were two categories with five books each that we had to choose. I chose group A the K-2 group. I have always liked the second grade kids and hope to one day be teaching around that age group or middle school. Sense there was not a category for middle school I decided to do this group. With ESE children there are many different levels so even in middle school the children may still be reading on the K-2 level. We were to "read" these five books and answer twelve questions about them. Some of the questions included, was the content appropriate for this reading level, how were the images, sounds, and how was it presented?
Even though this was one of the better projects I still had a minor challenge. I still have dial up at my home and the e-books were taking forever to download and play on my computer. I had to go to the school library and work on the project. I would defiantly use e-books in my class room to help teach the students. This would be one way to incorporate technology into my classroom in a simple and fun way. All the books taught something and there was also a value in most of them that could then been spun off into another project to teach the children. When the narrators were reading some of the books they did not make it as fun as some of the others. I learned that there is a better response when the narrator really gets into the book and distinguishes the characters voices. It is more fun to listen to the story. That is why when I read to children I like to change my voice with the words. This project would defiantly be good for any child in elementary school as well as some ESE students who are in middle or high school.