I feel silly for not realizing that there was a voice recording feature on Movie Maker. I was having students record their voiceovers on Audacity and then import them. During the second class, the TRT asked if it was okay to allow students to just use the microphone feature on MovieMaker. After realizing what it was, I was elated (as were the students) since it made the voiceover procedure much easier. I know that in all the various software programs I use daily, there are features that I discover anew when someone else points out the capability or I come across it on the web. This was one of those teachable moments for me and my students and a detail I would definitely change for next year.

        In this editorial writing lesson, I talked about providing facts to support opinion. In fact, it was the basis of the third paragraph in the writing organizer that I provided. I did not want to go in depth of research since that is a unit that is tackled in Language Arts. However, in future lessons, it may help to include internet searching skills. For example, students writing an opinion against the gum policy only thought to search the word “gum.”  It took significant conversation to prompt them to think of how else they might search to gain the information they sought. I could have saved myself many individual conversations had I included a scaffolding lesson on thinking of how to search for information on the internet.