ECOMP 5004: Technology-Rich Lesson Plan

Learning Goals/Outcomes

Students will learn how to transform a writing piece into a digital publication to be viewed on a portable iOS device (a.k.a. iPad). Students will learn how to use a template to format their writing piece so that the finished eBook will contain chapter names, topic headings, and a table of contents. Students will introduce media in the form of audio and/or video into the eBook by way of an “about-the-author” section.

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Lesson Plan

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ePub Booklet Exemplars

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ECOMP 5004: Write To Learn Paper

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ECOMP 5004: Monster Blog Project

DIRECTIONS:

Imagine that you are a writer of children’s books. You are word-processing a manuscript of a story about a child who overcomes fear of an outrageous monster that has taken up residence in the child's bedroom closet. You have reached the part of the story where the child dares to open the closet door, thus coming face to face with the monster.

1. Describe the monster in words, as seen through the child’s eyes for the first time. 
2. Post the description to your blog and exchange links with your partner.
3. Now, draw your partner's monster based solely on their written description.
4. Publish your illustration to your partner's blog.
5. Now, draw your own monster and publish the illustration to your blog so that you can compare/contrast the two versions.

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My Blog Monster

My partner, Colleen's, Blog Monster

ECOMP 5004: Reflection Using wallwisher

Directions: Use the wallwisher site to state your brief impression of  article, Picture a World Without Pens, Pencils and Paper.
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/ecomp5004Exeter

Article:  Picture a World Without Pens, Pencils and Paper
Bromley, K. (2010). Picture a world without pens, pencils, and paper. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 41.1, 97-108

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ECOMP 5004: Biopoem Project

Assignment #1 - Biopoems in the Classroom


The biopoem project can be used in classes and courses across the curriculum, as we did, as an kind of ice breaker activity where students have the opportunity to learn some basic facts about their peers. For students, this will kick off the making of connections between one another. For the teacher, this will help foster the development of the classroom culture.  Biopoems also provide teachers with the opportunity to integrate a potentially new piece of technology, like Glogster, as a possible choice for students to express their knowledge and understanding. 

Teachers could also use this concept with students so that they will construct another biopoem, but this time the students get to do a little role-playing. In language arts class, for example, students chooses a character from a book they're reading for class. In social studies, students do their writeup on a pharaoh they've been studying from Ancient Egypt. When we get to science, students must create a biopoem based on an element form the Periodic Table. Teachers could also use the biopoem project and turn it into a game of "Guess Who?" where students must use of their detective skills to figure out who the poem is about. The possibilities may be limited only by one's imagination.

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Biopoem.ME

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Biopoem.TEACHER

ECOMP 5007: Final Project #2 - Field Research & Presentation

WriteRoom, Distraction-Free Writing

Overview
In our second final project, I was excited to have the opportunity to work with a staff member who is strong in this area of knowledge to create a meaningful product to share with my fellow teachers. Actually, it was a random comment of mine to our assistive technology specialist about a recent application I had heard about on our MLTI laptops that sparked this great conversation on how WriteRoom could be a great tool for both mainstream and special needs students. I knew for certain we were on the right track when she and I presented our findings to the language arts department and saw the light bulbs come on almost immediately. One teacher made the comment that WriteRoom is, “just cool enough that every student will want to use it, so that special needs students won’t feel singled out or segregated when they need to use it for their classwork.”

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WriteRoom

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