Favorite Classroom Projects and Events

2016-2017

Note: For previous years, check out my blog!

Global Hero's Journey & Red Carpet Event

Tech Tools Used: Twitter, YouMeScript, Storyboardthat, DoInk Green Screen, WeVideo, Camtasia, Final Cut Pro, GAFE, Chromebooks, iPads, Schoology & Google Classroom

Above: Students revising scripts and filming their Hero's Journey Screenplays using DoInk Green Screen Apps on iPads.

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Upper-Students making storyboards based off their collaborative scripts

Lower-A student making a how-to video using Nimbus screencast to show others how to add on and use YouMeScript to Google Docs.

During Fall 2017, students studied the Odyssey, wrote their own hero's journey narratives, collaborated to write a screenplay, designed a storyboard, made a film using green screens, edited their films, and then showcased them for the community at an event called Global Hero's Journey Red Carpet Night. Throughout the entire project, we collaborated on Twitter with four other schools and teachers from around the world.

Google Hangouts Speaker Series

Tech Tools Used: Google Hangouts, Today's Meet Backchannel Chat, Promethean Board, Chromebooks

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Upper: Salvatore Totino (Everest; Spiderman: Homecoming)

Lower: Colin Trevorrow (Jurrasic World; Star wars IX)

Google Hangouts Speaker Series 2016-17

I love being able to connect my students to real world speakers that are professionals doing tremendous things with the skills that students learn in school. I find that it validates a student's learning when they can see how a skill applies to careers! During 2016 & 2017 and on Twitter, I connected with Mr. Justin Bell, a fabulous teacher in Kansas, that invited me to be a part of a global collaborative project which included making connections, via Twitter, to some professionals in the film industry. My students connected with Kansas and Wisconsin schools as well as said professionals and used a back-channel chat website called Today'sMeet.com to ask the professionals questions.

Below: Jared Bush (Zootopia; Moana)

#NationalPoetry Month Poetry Walk & Sidewalk Poetry Day

Tech Tools Used: YouTube, ReCap, Canva, QRCode Generator, GAFE

Interactive Poetry Pages

During National Poetry Month, students studied poetry, analyzed and applied their learning by making interactive poetry scrapbook pages. Students were given the choice of whether they wanted to make their scrapbook pages digitally physical artistic interpretations. For the students that chose the digital option, I showed them Canva. All student groups read their poems out loud and recorded themselves using Recap.com and then linked the recordings to a QR code and placed them on the scrapbook page. Students lined the halls with poetry and then took it outside by creating Sidewalk Poetry!

Donor's Choose Sphero Ball Literary Coding Project

Tech Tools: Donor's Choose Application Process, Sphero Ball, Sphero Ball Apps

Coding Project

The project was fully funded, but it is still work in progress and is a future project for Fall 2017!

Romeo and Juliet BreakoutEDU

Tech Tools Used: Promethean Board for timer, Chromebooks for Online Searches, BYOD, Breakout Boxes(not tech, but a tool)

WOW! This was one day full of interactive engaging collaboration with students learning and actually remembering what they learned! TOTALLY AMAZING!

AHS BreakoutEDU video made by Mindi Vandagriff who organized this BreakoutEDU session.

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