Verbalizing Vowels

Objective: Students will learn and be able to identify the difference between both the short and long vowel sounds.

Educational Technology Standard 8: Use technology resources (e.g., calculators, data collection probes, videos, educational software) for problem-solving, self-directed learning, and extended learning activities. 

• Both of these videos are super cute ways to teach kids how to pronounciate the different sounds that vowels make. It was fun listening to these and trying to figure out ways that I could teach it and incorporate these videos into my lessons. This is a really great tool to have and could be put to some really great use. 
• If the students need some more practice I think they could use this tool to find these videos (with an adults help) to be able to re-listen and replay as many times as they need to, to fully grasp the concept. Otherwise this tool can be kind of distracting and can turn into a time waster. If the students will use it for productive reasons then they can use it, otherwise I will advice them to not use it. 
• To make sure they are getting the concept I will give them a tube where they can say the vowel and they can also hear what they are saying. Hearing themselves say it will help them to self correct what they are doing and try figuring out how to fix it to match the sound the vowel needs to make.