Digitize Summer Reading with Wikis and Glogs

Digitize Summer Reading

with Wikis and Glogs

Why Summer Reading?

Research

Organization

Tasks

The Book Thief

Your task is to choose three of the following questions and answer them under a group folder. Be sure you answer in three or more complete sentences, provide text evidence, and cite the page number. You will choose the folder based on your last name.

Esperanza Rising:

Post a greeting on your group page. Include an opinion of this book. You must support your opinion with at least 2 reasons. Compare three different settings that are offered in this story. Detail the emotions that the main characters are experiencing as they walk through each of the stages of the novel.

Student Work

Assessment

So what's changed?

Research shows that schools are challenged with a difficult issue that pits their student’s grown in emerging technology against our teaching faculty who are less confident with these tools. The good news is that closing this gap can be assisted by employing the Web 2.0 tools in the classrooms with minimal stress on the teachers and launching students in the 21st Century learning. (Richardson) Students of today demand a change in the classrooms in gathering information faster than any previous generation. (ASCD)

GLOGSTER

http://debsmith.edu.glogster.com/SchooledbyKorman

http://s004.aldape.edu.glogster.com/The-Deathly-Hallows-Main/

10th GRADE ELA

http://katyisd.ed.voicethread.com/#u533001.b681958.i3603787

In the past few years, the Katy ISD summer reading program had become a bit perfunctory with most students having to do little more than pass some type of short assessment to indicate they had read the assigned novels. In an effort to place more emphasis on this assigned reading, the KISD Technology Integration Specialists group created a wiki (using PBWorks.com) for each grade level (6th-12th). Grade level teachers were asked to help develop discussion items and identify resources to be placed on these sites. When these students returned to school in August 2009, they were divided into groups across several campuses. These groups then spent time exploring the resources such as interviews with authors, biographical web sites and movie trailers. Students were then discussed their opinions of the books and addressed the discussion items that were posted on these wikis.

http://katyela10th.pbworks.com/

http://katyela7th.pbworks.com/

PBWORKS

https://marciasimmons.pbworks.com/Johnson%2C-Andrea