This is our penultimate challenge – appropriate use of language since this week looks at the subject of English or language arts.
The Australian English curriculum is divided into three areas: Language, Literature and Literacy. Students are assessed in listening, reading and viewing as well as speaking, writing and creative. This week’s activities will include all these things.
Activities to try
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Watch this video about Dove evolution then explain what the producers wanted you to get out of the video. What was their aim in creating this? What techniques did they use? What is real beauty in your eyes?
Create the following to embed on your blog:
- a comic strip related to internet safety
- a Voki trying to persuade listeners to read a particular book
- a collage about social values such as co-operation, sharing etc
Write a book, film or game review. Remember to rate it out of 10 and mention what age group you would recommend it for.
As a class, create a voicethread about a book you have read recently. Dawso also wrote about a book she was reading.
Hand write the first paragraph of a great story – take a photo before you do any corrections. In your post put the photo then type what the paragraph looked like after you had done some revision work.
Write a recount, explanation, persuasive piece of writing. Find an image relating to it and remember to add correct attribution.
Create an A-Z dictionary relating to English – this could be done as a class using voicethread with a different group of letters on each slide. It could be added to throughout the year as students learn more vocabulary relating to English.
Find a very interesting image. Add it to your post then write a description or a set of questions about it.
Create your own images and add to a post of your choice Other options for creating your own images include:
- Image Generators such as ImageGenerator.org
- Comic Generators like MakeBeliefsComix.com, kerpoof, ToonDoo
- Photo Editors like Befunky, fd’s Flickr Tools
- Tag Cloud Creators such as Wordle
- Graph Creators including GraphJam and Crappy Graphs
Mixing up your images using these types of tools can really spice up your posts! Leave a comment on this post, if you or your class can recommend some other image sites to add to this list.
Tell the story of the picture From Bill Ferreirae – I sometime find a picture and tell students to use that picture to come up with a story. It can be about the picture, what happened before, what will happen next, etc. So, at the top of this post is the image I have chosen for you to start with. Copy the image to your post, then write the story. Remember to give attribution. If you don’t have your own blog, tell your story in a comment here.
Write some poetry on your blog. Here are some examples: Dawso’s acrostic, Afrah’s 6 room poem, Lilli’s 6 room poem
These pictures tell a story. Visit the website to leave your story.
Next week
Next week is our last set of activities and it will include an evaluation of your blog and blogging skills as well as a chance to nominate some great student and class blogs for the annual Edublog awards. So make sure you have visited lots of different blogs and found those you would like to recommend win an award. You will be able to nominate one student blog from your class, one student blog from the rest of the world and one class blog. You will not be able to nominate your own blog. But more about this next week.
Image: ‘Moonbow = Rainbow at Night‘
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A couple of other great imaging tools are picfull, photovisi (collages) & lunapic.
Amy M