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Finally, my mobile app. that I will be using next academic year is Voxer, an efficient and fast way to send and receive voice messages, text messages, documents, videos, and pictures.  I first start my video by stating why I use it, navigate through the website, and model how to use it and its various features.  Here's my video with the tutorial:

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This is "Voxer Tutorial" by Emil Niz on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Close to finishing the semester, I have created a homepage with information ranging from expectations to school events.

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Mr. Niz graduated from the University of Houston-Downtown and is currently finishing his graduate studies in teaching at the same university. This is his fifth year teaching at Amigos Por Vida and...

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Afterwards, I used Voki animation to assign a writing prompt to my seventh graders about a little-known fact.  I connected that fact with a prompt for them to write about.  Enjoy...

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Read Aloud Voice thread: Odysseus and the Bag of Winds. 

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Read Aloud Voice thread: Odysseus and the Bag of Winds. 

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I enjoyed doing this; it was fun, but difficult at the same time.  I covered the use of prologues and epilogues, theme, foreshadowing, and predictions.  Mythologies is difficult for our students when analyzing traditional literature.  But with enough background information and scaffolding, our kids enjoy reading all of the adventures that these myths have to offer.  Dive in...

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I thought of adding humor to my e-portfolio. Enjoy this meme of the polar ice caps melting. Poor Santa, he's going to need a new ride soon.

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Soon after, I posted a really cool bingo game called Batman Bingo. It's a graphic novel that students have to read and find all the parts of speech.

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I then posted a word cloud that I use to help students with background knowledge about the setting of another novel study called Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry.

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Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen Graphic Organizer. 

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Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen Graphic Organizer. 

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I started the semester by posting this Graphic Organizer from a well-known novel called Hatchet.