This is a peek at the great brainstorming of our teachers today at our Common Instructional Protocols meeting. These are their ideas of what digital publishing may look like at each grade level. Connected to this are a collection of resources they suggest to support these ideas. Our next step as Instructional Coaches is to standardize the format and strengthen the resources. Soon the Farmington teachers will have a quality document of strong instructional ideas to help them envision what instruction and learning may look like in a 1:1 environment.
Early Childhood
- creating iBooks or journal activities
- creating photo, picture or video scrapbooks containing student ideas and thoughts.
- sharing “surprise bag, sharing bag” through video or photo cues
Grades K-2
- creating iBooks or journal activities
- creating digital scrapbooks of learning and incorporating writing
- creating learning games for themselves and classmates
- publishing written and class books through photos, drawing, writing and videos
- Sharing writing through doc cam, SMART Board or iPad for enhanced student learning.
- Research projects like animal science fair
- Keynote, Powerpoint and Prezi- online presentation tools
Grades 3-5
- Create book trailers.
- Create digital scrapbooks of writing pieces.
- Students create an ebook on a topic including multiple learning objectives.
- Collaborate to create learning games to be used by classmates.
- Create “Tiger-Talks” showing mastery of a learning objective.
- Group collaboration using online presentation tools. (Prezi, Glogster)
Middle School
- Students utilize blogs to extend learning beyond classroom and use outside resources.
- Blog posts/responses should be unique and authentic.
- Group collaboration using online presentation tool.(Prezi, Glog, Google)
- Teachers begin to utilize online repositories that students can access and contribute to outside the classroom, including Wiki’s, social bookmarking, document editing.
- Content is school focused with an emphasis on demonstrating understanding/learning.
- Content can be created in class and outside class.
- Students work both individually and collaboratively to demonstrate learning.
High School
- write your own book/poem/essay/blog for the world to see
- upload a video to YouTube about something
- comment on an author/professional they are interested it
- write an article for a school newspaper
- write a story
- record and publish a musical piece
- create a video explaining something to someone else and upload it to help them