Randomizing Words

As a writing assignment, my students took traditional fairy tales and wrote in the point of view of the villain from the fairy tale they selected. To add to their creativity, we took the tales (stories) and randomized the words to create symbols for each fairy tale.

Wordle for Valentine

Students were asked to come up with a list of words that best describe their parents. They then went onto http://www.wordle.com/ and randomized their list of words in order to then create valentine cards for their parents. Below is what work done on wordle would look like:

Using Movie Maker to express work

I taught my students how to use Movie Maker. All students, including ELL and students on individual education plans did well on this assignment. The students were given a choice to create a video on the environment or on the social condition. They used creative commons pictures and music to put this video together. I am only posting a few examples. Some have errors but for first timers they did well.

Digital Book

Each one of my students wrote a poem fashioned after Margaret Wise Bown's book, "The Important Book". We then decided to take these poems and create our own book....A digital book using Photostory.

Music For Projects---Free Broadcast Use

If you need music for a project, use Free Play Music......It's Free!

The Site states that FreePlay Music is free for personal, private and non-commercial use.

Just click on the photo and browse.

Listen To Books Online

If you are looking for some pre-recorded books read by volunteers, you can visit the following site: http://www.librivox.org

Chapter e-books for kids and teenagers

http://kidsspace.torontopubliclibrary.ca/stories.html

For older students: http://www.tumblebooks.com/tumblereadable/home.asp

Online animated talking picture books for young students:

http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/customer_login.asp

Bulletin Board of Creative Comics

Showcasing my students' comics...

Bitstrips--The Trojan War

Comics Using Bitstrips....Point of View of a Trojan about the Trojan War By: Alexis, Helen, Maia, Anton and Daniel.