Week 8: Multimedia Project

Assignment: Multimedia Project

Uses in the Classroom: Students could use Storify to track events effecting their school community by using social media sites, tracking hashtags and finding coverage in local media. This could be a great way for a fledgling Journalism to make engaging multimedia articles. Another way this sort of project could be used would be to have students track/outline a research project with their resources. Storify, to me, is more accessible and easier to use than evernote or google's note application, keep.

Issues to Consider: Students will need to have access to a computer and the internet. 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 ideas on paper. Lessons about being a good digital citizen and appropriately using social media would need to precede a project like this.

Week 7: Diversity

Assignment: Diversity

Uses in the Classroom: Using the application Lucidchart, a google drive add-on, students will make a map of concepts that they have learned around motifs in the play Macbeth by Shakespeare. They could also track research that they are doing for their unit papers.  This activity will aid in analysis because it will let students illustrate the ideas that they have collected in their heads and notes.

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 ideas on paper.

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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diversity

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from http://www.nmc.org/news/personalized-learning-together-interview-jim-devine.

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https://www.lucidchart.com/documents/view/a7d90f72-b26c-4da1-b6f9-71c3dfb25452