March 21, 2008
Imagine if I discovered…
Posted by bookjewel under Book Week Gems, Learning Gems: technology | Tags: activities, Books, BookWeek, ideas, publish, reading, writing |One of the projects I am working on for this year’s Book Week is a literacy project which will involve our primary school students in the writing, publication and launch of a school story book built around the prompt ‘Imagine if I discovered…” The aim will be for each student to contribute to the publication by responding individually to the topic. Each student will be allocated one page in the book.
Of course this is a major endeavour and today I have been searching the web for ideas and inspiration. I am always looking for imaginative ways to motivate students to write and think creatively and I was particularly looking for visual strategies to act as ‘warm up’ exercises. I stumbled across Toondoo and started to fiddle…
This site has huge potential as a creative writing and planning tool that is both fun and simple to use.
March 23rd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
[...] Set Higher Standards wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt One of the projects I am working on for this year’s Book Week is a literacy project which will involve our primary school students in the writing, publication and launch of a school story book built around the prompt ‘Imagine if I discovered…” The aim will be for each student to contribute to the publication by responding individually to the topic. Each student will be allocated one page in the book. Of course this is a major endeavour and today I have been searching the web for ideas and insp [...]
May 5th, 2008 at 1:08 am
I am doing a similar project with my math classes. We are publishing an online monthly magazine(press publishers)with student articles. We use issuu and lulu to make a hard copy of it. I notice you are using toondoo…my students love kerpoof.
Nancy