Assignment: Animated Gif/ Edited Photo
Uses in the Classroom: Using the application MakeAGif, copyright friendly photos or original content and a program such as Photoshop Elements,* students can make an animated .gif of how they go through the reading process- from processing words to fixing up 'road blocks' to full comprehension, they can reflect on and demonstrate their cognition (thus participating in metacognition) in a way that is engaging. This is a valuable activity because you are asking students to analyze how they think and create a visual representation which are pretty high-level thinking activities.
Issues to Consider: Students will need to have access to a computer and graphics files. Some class time would need to be spend on helping students use the online application. Some students might need a modified workload depending on their supports, they might need to only map out their opening (hook, thesis, support points). This can be extended by having students include a writing explanation of how they actually go through the reading process or it could be presented to the class as a presentation and culminate with a class discussion on how we read.
Copyright: The content of the .gif posted below comes from the site Flckr and is used under creative commons license as listed.
The photo edited with Photoshop Elements (below) was also originally found on Flckr
*I selected to use these specific programs because I can actually get to them from school (and the kids could actually use them). We only have one computer that is licensed for Creative Suite and my students are not able to download software (nor am I by school policy). Plus, make a gif is pretty user friendly and gives you the HTML to easily embed the work into a website, such as wikispaces,where my students submit the majority of their work.
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