Students did three major things:
- Using Wordle, they created a description of Justin Case from Justin Case: School Drool and Other Daily Diasters. Students used: descriptive words such as: worrywart, brave, kind; they included character names, human, animal and stuffed; talked about his dislikes; etc. Students printed them out for sharing.
- Students then wrote a blog about their favorite part of school using kidblog.org. Most had a main idea statement and then gave supporting details. The number of details varied by student.
- Finally students went to http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ to create a "Wacky Web Tales." They filled in the blanks for word types and then the program created their story for them. Students then copied and pasted their "Wacky Web Tales" into their blog. They were also asked to copy a link to "Wacky Web Tales"
Students then had time to share their blog posts and "Wacky Web Tales" either online or by calling kids ove to their computers. I shared Wordle highlights after.
I was amazed at how much they did today. I was really proud of what they created and how eager they were to share with one another.
It sounds like your students accomplish a lot when they are given very specific, detailed tasks. Maybe that was the element that was missing from the Classroom Memories thread?
ReplyDeleteAs you can see, I am reading your blog out of order.