Final Project

I recently implemented a Web2.0 tool I have been blogging about in my personal classroom. It was very interesting and a lot of fun. I used a small group of students to implement this process and they did a wonderful job. I really enjoyed doing this and so did the kids. Here is a short clip on what we did in the classroom and below you will also find a short lesson plan write up about my objectives and plan for this Web2.0 tool.

You will find a link and also an uploaded video from iMovie due to a embedding issue.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/helenxiong/videos/11/


Please feel free to also click the following LINK to check out a timeline that one of my students have started. They have timelined the main events from chapters 1-4 and has already noticed how chapters do not vary as days do. He is beginning to see and understand that it can take many chapters to get through one day or one page to jump months. ( http://www.dipity.com/bmsxiong2010bw15/Number-the-Stars/ )

1.    Target Audience – A small group of 5^th grade students

2.    Materials – Computers, Internet access, Camera, and Number the Stars (Literature book)

3.    Objectives –

1.    Students will be able to use the internet based program “Dipity” to timeline the events that happen in Annemarie’s life into a realistic time frame

2.    Students will be able to compare timelines with other students and evaluate their final projects

4.    Procedure –

1.    Students will read the book Number the Stars

2.    Students will map out the events that happen in Annemarie’s life as they read

3.    As students read they will correctly timeline the events in Annemarie’s life using the program “Dipity”

4.    Students will also take their own realistic pictures that display the time’s events and upload them to their timeline to have a ‘real life’ example of what Annemarie is going through

5.    Web 2.0 Tool – www.dipity.com

6.    Social Participation/Social Learning –

Students will work together to map their events and also timeframe them correctly.

Students will also collaborate with each other in taking their pictures that will be real life events to help them remember the events that took place in Annemarie’s life.

The students whom take part in this project will compare their final projects and compare their timelines with each other as well.

7.    Making Connections –

In the book Number the Stars, students have a hard time grasping the time frame of events that happen in Annemarie’s life to a timeframe that is reasonable. Many times, students think that chapters represent days and that the events that happen are in sequential daily frames when they are incorrect. The students will hopefully make personal connections with the timeline of Annemarie’s life to a real life timeline of events.

8.    Create/Produce – “Dipity” timeline with pictures

9.    Reflection – Student will reflect their personal learning experience on video

My goal for this project is for students to understand that a book can take days, months, or even years of time in the events that they read about in a simple 12 chapter book. I want students to grasp the understanding of time through their reading to help them better understand events in history.

I hope that with the use of “Dipity” students can realistically correlate what they read about into what can really be realistically done.