Makes that involve the consideration of text, images, and video in their composition
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A digital version of a Mad Lib! Fill out the Google Form and get your personalized Mad Lib story emailed to you.
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We have tons of pictures we’ve taken in our lives- what if we chose some of those and created a picture book from them? Rather than tell the story of the photograph, we use the photographs to create a whole new story. I used Google Slides to create my story.
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I created this graphic to show students my thinking when I created a Zeega. They can use it to then plan their own digital story using any digital storytelling tool.
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This lesson/how-to for teachers is designed to teach sentence clauses to middle schoolers: http://joiemarinaro.wordpress.com/maker-journals-and-final-product/ It requires a little bit of pre-teaching regarding subjects and predicates, and runons and fragments, but there’s a prezi linked to the How-to. This lesson uses Little Bits to make circuits, which light up, in order to symbolize the properties of independent and dependent clauses. The lesson expressly illustrates the mobility of dependent clauses in a sentence.
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In Make Cycle #4 we invite you to “Hack Your Writing.” Maybe you do not think you’re a “hacker” and associate the term exclusively with the most skillful and renegade of computer programmers. But this week we are encouraging a broader use of this term and a more open sense of its possibilities. What does it mean to hack? Hacking is playful exploration, perhaps exploiting the “weakness” in something. To hack is to make innovative customizations. Hackers are often computer enthusiasts. Hackers often undermine authoritative systems. Hackers crack systems for “fun,” pursuing civic or collective action. It seems that now,… Read more »
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Many young writers have trouble crystallizing their character’s main desire, secret, fear, or conflict, and how that connects to their play or story at large. This activity uses the structure of memes to help writers begin to hone in on that concept though the use of “meme sticky notes” or “meme portraits.” Version #1 – For Groups To do this activity with a group… 1. Select a meme with a formula that beneficial for exploring character. For example, the Morpheus meme, “What if I told you…” is a great meme to use if you’d like participants to explore character through… Read more »
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Memes are a great tool to use with students to help them summarize new ideas, or reflect on what they have been learning. The process is really simple and most students are familiar with memes even if they don’t know what they are called. You can ask them to draw their own, my students have done great renditions of grumpy cat in stick figure form, or have them use a meme generator. If it’s your students first time making a meme it helps to give a prompt to think from along with a couple of models or an example you… Read more »
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A recipe is one form of How To Guide which can easily be turned into an introduction. I used Google Presentation to build an interactive “Preparation” section to link to other slides and back. Here’s how I made it: http://whatelse.edublogs.org/2014/06/13/clmooc-how-to-be-me-guide/ Here’s the presentation: http://goo.gl/aa7JVB
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For the first Make Cycle of CLMOOC 2014, we are exploring the wonderful world of How To guides. How Tos are everywhere and available for all kinds of topics. We even found a How to Write a How to Guide! We also welcome remixes to the How To format. This week’s co-facilitators, Chris Butts and Rachel Bear, made a How To be them as a form of introduction. For this first Make Cycle, we focus our thinking and reflection around the ways in which How To Guides can be used to share who we are and what things we are… Read more »
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I wanted to find a way to introduce students to various aspects of literacy needed for 8 grade writing- structures of writing, style, and rhetorical devices. I am working on developing a rhetorical toolbox which consists of taking notes/creating foldables, practicing these skills with various handouts and lessons I’ve found online and incorporating these skills into our genres of writing we will do this year. I have developed a series of lessons for each category for their toolbox that incorporate online games/quizzes and handouts found online. Adapted from: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/preap/teachers_corner/45764.html