Concept mapping can help students organize thoughts and works extremely well for visual learners. There are numerous tools available to students for concept mapping on the computer, such as Inspiration, myWebSpiration.com, OmniGraffle, and more!
Students in Mrs. Sharpe’s English 6 class use Inspiration to identify literary elements in stories.
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The students in Mr. Cross’ 8th grade English class spent some time studying abridgements. (Specifically- The Princess Bride) After finishing their study, they were given the task of taking one of the Grimm, Perault, or Anderson fairy tales and abridging it. In groups, they wrote, directed, filmed, edited, and starred in their own “abridged” versions of the fairy tales. Students used iMovie to create their movies. Here is an example from a group that abridged “Little Red Riding Hood”
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Ms. Sides English Class showed their self expression by creating online posters to share with people around the world. The assignment was to read a book and report back using the online tool Glogster. The students had a plethora of multimedia tools to choose from when creating their project (e.g. text, video, photos, and audio clips). Students in the class also had the option to leave constructive feedback to one another using the comment feature, as well as take advantage of Glogster’s 5 star rating system in order to determine how individual projects compared to others in the class.
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Ms. Myers 6th grade Reading class worked collaboratively using the ActivStudio software to summarize and illustrate the journal, Trapped By the Ice, written by Michael McCurdy. Their small group projects where then collected to form a short story video about the real-life story if Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance. Click on the links below to find out what happened to these brave men in 1914!
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Ms. Landis works with her 8th grade creative writing class to create an online newspaper. Students decided the layout of the paper as well as the content that was included. The students conducted interviews, created original editorials, along with other staples that you would see in your local newspaper. The class in continuing to improve the online paper and wants to include blogging so that students can respond to editorials and create a discussion on important topics relevant to our students.
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