Ms. Zarikow’s class worked in three groups to collaborative create a presentation for their narrative celebration. Each child created a slide on which they included a snippet of their narrative and then reflected on how they had improved the piece via their revisions.
When they were done, Ms. Zarikow merged the three presentations together into one presentation. She needed to do that because only 10 people can edit one presentation at a time.
I cannot tell you how excited my 5th graders were to write today. Each of our students in grade 5, for the first time, now has their own Google Apps account and today we dove straight in to collaborating on a personal narrative piece they had previously written in Microsoft Word. The process was as follows: Upload, share, advise, revise.
After logging in, the students first uploaded their document into Google Docs, named it, and read over it to make sure that everything looked good.
The students then added their collaboration partner by giving them the ability to view and comment on their document.
At this point, they also added their teacher.
Each student then went back to their Google Docs account and found a new document from their friend waiting for them. After opening it, they were then able to read through and make comments.
ReviseThe best part of the day was seeing how enthusiastic the kids were to go back in to fix and improve their writing. After the students made changes to their original piece, they asked if they could add more editors to their document who could review and make comments on their piece. Here’s a short, raw video of part of the process. My favorite part is at 1:25 when a student enthusiastically yells out to the class, “Everybody, everybody, get on mine!”
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Mr. Scott’s class took photos of their environments terrariums. Every few days they took new photos to help document the changes going on inside. They also kept a written log of the changes they observed.
At the end of the experiment, they each combined their observations and photographs into Voicethreads. For a limited time you may view all of the Voicethreads by clicking on the links below. Next year, only these exemplars will remain.
Anna ___ April ___ Bailey ___ Breann ___ Claire ___ Declan ___ Ellee ___ Jacqueline ___ Jalen ___ Kirk ___ Luke ___ Maya ___ Nick ___ Rio ___ Sabine ___ Sam ___ Sean ___ Sebastian ___ Teegan ___ Timmy
Mrs. Mutsch’s students researched the differences between developed and developing countries. They decided to take part in Read to Feed, a Heiffer International project. Students convinced donors to sponsor them in a read-a-thon. The money they raised helps people in developing countries become more self-sufficient.
Please click on a child’s name below to view their Voicethread.
Hari_____ Michal _____Jakub___ Sydney ___Conner_____ Jay_____ Katie _____Justin_____ Lulu_____ Nick _____Sam_____ Amelie_____ Marcus_____ Cameron_____ Natalie _____Izzy_____ Danny_____ Ranjan_____Jamie_____ Maddy_____ Anjali_____ Sammy
Ms. Zarikow’s class created books of the poems they wrote this year. They created the books in Mircosoft Word. Then they saved the books as .PDF. We uploaded those PDF files to www.youblisher.com to create flippable, embeddable books. Here are two examples.
Inspired by the Kahn Academy videos which are available for free online, Ms. Vaught’s class created their own math videos. Here is an example of how they turned out.
For a limited time you may view all the students’ videos in Ms. Vaught’s online photo gallery.
Mrs. Dodge’s class had a read-a-thon to raise money for Heifer International. Many of the students dressed up as a favorite character from a book they have read. For a limited time you may visit their glogs to learn about the characters they chose.
Aiden_____Anna M._____Anna S.____Beatrice_____Berend_____Christian H._____Daniel_____Joe_____Kayzad_____Kenny_____Maddy_____Mikala_____
Natalie_____Sophia_____Tessel_____Thor_____Tony___Yuki_____Thomas
_____Vadim_____Vikram
As a final project for their chemistry unit, Mr. Medved’s class researched different atomic elements. Each student created a glog to share their research findings. For a limited time you may view each student’s glog by clicking on the appropriate links below.
Cat ___ Caroline___ Nicole___ Renee___ Christina___ Shane___ Ryu ___Diya ___Ian___ Kayla ___Avanya___Andrew___Tyler___Amiya ___Kei ___Adrian Tanner ___Julie___ Maggie_ __Maddie ___Joshua ___Drew
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