Cy's+Favorite+Digital+Projects


 *  Cy's Favorite Digital Projects-Stakeholders Project **

How to infuse technology into your classroom? Where do you fit into the SAMR Model with your use of classroom technology? How do we move to the next level?

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Color Poems- LA/Art/Web 2.0 Tools 5th Grade ELL Details: 5th Grade Digital Poetry Project- Descriptive Writing/Art/Media Technology. Students wrote, created their poem uploaded finished product into voicethreads and narrative their poems. They also did the artwork for their personal icons. I never used their actual faces as their icons. We also integrated science into this lesson doing several chromatography (color separations) projects that allowed students to discover that colors combined to make other colors.

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What Are You Afraid of? LA/Art/ Web 2.0 Tools 5th Grade ELL Details: 5th grade Project- Part of Writing Unit Plan called __Express Yourself__ Through LA and Art. I went one step further having the students upload their finished art project to a voicethread and type in their finished paper. The Artwork showcased in the voicethread was completed prior to the writing after a series of modeled writing, scaffolded activities with read a-louds, and art integration. Lesson Plans for unit available upon request.

media type="custom" key="12266766" Global Warming 5th Grade Science/LA/Media Art/Web 2.0 Details: 5th grade Project- Part of Non-Fiction Science Unit Plan that integrated LA/Art/Reading/Technology. After reading non-fiction text and doing research on Global Warming students completed brochures and poetry on Global Warming to showcase their knowledge. As their media project I had them select artwork from the internet and upload their writing into a software program to design their finished piece. Those finished pieces were then uploaded into voicethread to share with the world. The Blue Man Group utube video was used as a VTS (Visual thinking strategy) to start set the motivation for this unit. Below the voicethread is the BlueMan Group utube video that started the unit.

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2010 Kindergarten Recycled Robot Project Art/Science/LA/Web 2.0 Details: SBCSC Kindergarten Project-Part of Science Unit that combined Reading/Writing/Sculpture/Media Technology. Students after reading a variety of non-fiction and science text about Robots and Recycling were asked to design their own Robots using a pile of recycling materials. No directions. Designs were mounted on recycled corrugated pallets using hard as nails glue and the finished product was approximately 4 feet tall. After the Robots were completed the students were asked to write a Robot Story.They had to use descriptive details in their writing (some stories were 3-4 pages long). Photographs of their Robots were taken by the teacher and uploaded into a voicethread and other artwork they did were used as their icon. After writing and revising their stories the students had to read their final draft into a microphone directly into the voicethread. Then various people including our principal were asked to respond to the students voicethreads and the kids then listened to everyone's comments. In Spring of 2012 as part of a school Digital initiative I was able to work with Amy Troyer on the same project with her kindergarten class and the writing was fantastic (2-3 full pages for many students)

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Use your Senses to Describe Setting -5th Grade Novel Study/VTS/Descriptive Writing/Web 2.0 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Details: This project was part of 5th grade Hatchet Novel Study. We were working on descriptive writing and the setting of a story. Students were ask to use their 5 senses to describe the picture shown in the voicethread and write a descriptive paragraph to describe that scene.

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