Project Stations
With your partner, pick a project that is of interest to you and your team. Can't decide? Click the light bulbs shown left to help you select a project to start with. You can do as many projects as you like.
Note that you should put your Team Name on every project with a picture of your team members or an appropriate image that represents your team. Don't forget to turn your project in.
Here are the projects. They are intended to be easy to complete in the time we have together.
Each features a description in the left-hand column, then the Task specific to each. You do not have to complete them in the order they appear. You have complete autonomy.
Strive to complete two projects.
Projects
1. Multi-Modal Learning
According to Universal Design for Learning (UDL), non-linguistic representation is a must. Multiple representations ensure information is accessible to all learners. It also makes content easier to access and comprehend for many others.
The use of Microsoft’s Immersive Reader to make text “playable” with all text content is powerful. It transforms Wakelet into a powerhouse for processing text as audio with picture dictionary and language translation (shown below).
1. Make a Wakelet collection that includes text and other types of content (e.g. pictures, videos from YouTube/Vimeo, Google Drive) on a content area topic.
Be sure to try out the Microsoft Immersive Reader and explore its capabilities.
2. When done, turn it in here
2. Wakelet Choice Boards:
A choice board is a graphic organizer. It allows students to choose different ways (e.g. text, audio, video resources) to learn about a particular concept. Choice boards are set up in a grid….You can include more or fewer activities (source: Cassidy Reinken).
How can you develop activities so that you don’t spend hours putting one together?
1. Make a Wakelet Choice Board
2. When done, turn it in here
3. Wakelet Reading Log:
Kristina A. Holzweiss’ (@lieberrian) uses Wakelet as a way to conduct reading logs. Kristina includes instructions and various resources to get you started.
You can create a template for your own students that makes it easy for them to record their reading activity. Some of the information to collect includes what they read, when they read, and how many pages are read each time. It’s also a great way to summarize what was read.
1. Make a Wakelet Reading Log and fill it out as if you were a student
2. When done, turn it in here
For fun, you might want to take advantage of this Reciprocal Teaching template I created to encourage student readers.
Students can use online audio recording tools (e.g. Vocaroo Online Voice Recorder) or Screencastify for webcam recording, to post their answers to reciprocal teaching sentence stems.
The link can then be posted in the Wakelet. Give it a try!
4. Wakelet Newsletters
Many educators, including librarians, are embracing Wakelet as a newsletter template tool. Kristina Uihlein Holzweiss does a wonderful job explaining how she created the first newsletter template below, School Library Media Center Newsletter, September 2019.
You can watch her video explanation via the 2020 TCEA Convention Facebook group. Here are several newsletter templates you can copy for your own use online.
You can create a template for your own students that makes it easy for them to record their reading activity. Some of the information to collect includes what they read, when they read, and how many pages are read each time. It’s also a great way to summarize what was read.
5. Wakelet Research Report
One of my favorite templates is this sample research report about polar bears. Imagine how taking a chemistry lab report and putting it into the tool would make the process easier for the teacher to grade.
Students could use the template, fill it in, and then submit it to the class assignment Wakelet when complete. This works well for other content areas, too.
As you can see in this example, the work features teacher instructions for students. What might they look like for your classroom?
1. Make a Wakelet Research Report template for your students. Fill it out out as if you were a student.
2. When done, turn it in here
6. All About Me Wakelet
Whether it’s All About Me for students in English or Spanish class or a Meet the Teacher template, you can make it easy for students to share a little about themselves using the tool.
Research shows that building teacher-student relationships has an effect size of 0.72.
1. Make an All About Me or Meet the Teacher(s) Wakelet as a model for your students or other teachers.
2. When done, turn it in here
7. Invent Your Own
Want to use Wakelet for your own purposes? This is the Project Station to do it in!
Find your own creative way to use Wakelet in the classroom or for professional development or leadership. Maybe try using it on your mobile device as well.
Watch the short video below to get some ideas.
1. Develop your "Invent Your Own" wakelet creation.
2. When done, turn it in here
8. Create an Annotated Video Playlist
"If students have access to YouTube, they can gather videos that further explain a topic in class — or that illustrate a point made during class. They add a link to the video in one item in the collection, then add a text block below it to describe whey that video makes the list (an annotation, kind of like an annotated bibliography)," says Matt Miller.
Find your own creative way to use Wakelet in the classroom with video or for professional development or leadership. Maybe try using it on your mobile device as well.
1. Develop your "Invent Your Own" wakelet creation.
2. When done, turn it in here
9. Add audio to Wakelet
Post a video in Wakelet then share reflections in audio format. Here's how:
- Record audio. You can use an online audio recorder such as SpeakPipe, Online Voice Recorder, or Audio Voice Recorder. No account creation is necessary.
- Save the MP3 audio file to your device and then put it in Google Drive. Change the share settings to "Anyone with the link."
- In Wakelet, add the audio from Google Drive. This will make it playable.
Make audio recording and saving easy with free smartphone apps. Students with Android phones can use Gitlab's Audio Recorder to save audio straight to Google Drive. iOS users can use Voice Recorder Pro to save to Google Drive.
