A Thousand Times Yes, 5 Creative Literature Projects for High School Students

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2. Learn to Say. Every time a teacher canYESlegitimately say to a student, the teacher is Empowering the student to learn by doing Allowing students ownership of the assignment. Validating the students desire to learn 3. Why Engage Students in Technology? Functional tech literacy required for most jobs in the future Critical thinking skills developed Students made comfortable with rapid technological advances Teacher educated through students 4. st 21The Key to Century Success is 5. The Value of Collaboration Students do more and the teacher does less. 6. Five Examples of Integrating Technology into the Curriculum Students read a novel and create a book of Twitterature using Twitter accounts Students read a novel and then use PIXTON to create to create a graphic novel Students generate Google Doc Spreadsheet to create a meaningful daily Bell ringer Students use Audacity or Garageband to record a famous short story, essay, or poem, making it available to classmates Students create publishable collaborative literature (short story collections, essays, grammar books, novels) 7. Create TwitteratureHave students work in groups to recreate a novel or play using Twitterature. Twitterature is having students write 140 character dialog and descriptions as a way of retelling a famous work of literature. 8. Example Twitterature Christina, Nitzah, Elijah American LitPeriod 4 Scarlet Letter Tweets @hestaprynne: ugh, this prison is so drab! @hestaprynne: Thank the Lord for the rose bush outside #pretty @hestaprynne: these ppl gotta stop starin at me and my baby #nosy @womaninthecrowd#1: You disgust me! #gross 9. Scarlet Letter Twitterature Continued @hestaprynne: these adults gotta teach their kids some manners @hestaprynne: ugh.why'd I marry a misshapen scholar many years my senior @hestaprynne: can't believe what's about to happen. @rogerjustchillin: I'm heeerreee 10. Use Free Cartoon Websites to Retell Stories - Create a Graphic Novel The value of retelling a story (novel) through the creation of comics: Students must read literature to reinterpret Visual learners team with verbal learners Students more aware/comfortable with tech 11. Use Pixton to Create Graphic Novels (Black Boy 12. Black Boy as a Graphic Novel 13. Wordle Break http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DuDLw0Zftc Okay Valentine. 14. Student Created Google Calendars Students create Google Calendar used by the following years students Students credited with site, and quoted by peers Calendar a bell ringing exercise engages students in writing daily journal Calendar can be shared with other classes or schools Assignment creates legacy students take pride in 15. Google Calendar Bell-Ringers 16. Create Audio Archives Have students record a short story, poem, or famousspeech. This gives students the opportunity to star in the classroom without the pressure of live performance. Share the files with students, or make it a homework assignment to listen to a short story, poem or famous speech read aloud by a peer. 17. Write Crowd-Sourced Novels 18. Someone Elses ShoesOur latest crowd-sourced novels have six first draft versions 19. Coming Soon! 20. BTW: CORE CURRICULUM is COVEREDListening Speaking Reading Writing Reviewing 21. Other Ideas 22. Student Movies An Okay Valentine Waitin' For the Train Google Doc of Songs Use Google Docs to organize the songs; have students input the data 2013- 2014 Music Award Ballot Students vote on their favorite videos 23. Students Favorite Websites 24. You know what to reach for. 25. Any Questions? 26. Thanks for listening If you want to reach me: [email protected] or [email protected] Follow me on Twitter @jaycr1 or @WYTV4u or @ Official30days Watch WYTV at wyoung.org Scan this barcode for my website. 27. Recommended Websites http://www.Pixton.comhttp://www.Createspace.com http://www.twitter.comhttp://www.audacity.com http://www.wordle.net http://30daystoempathy.blogspot.com http://someoneelsesshoesnovel.blogspot.com http://www.dropbox.comAnd of course, make sure you have a Gmail account and start using Googles tools for educators.