First, Tanya Nizam's grade 9 Science class. Tanya has been using blogs to have students share hypotheses and data. They also used the blog to analyze data, charts and the MYP assessment criteria, giving the students the opportunity to comment on each other's posts. It was a great way for the students to be engaged in a virtual discussion that could be happening at any time. Then follow-up discussions in the classroom reinforce the concepts and understandings.
Have look at the 9C Electricity Investigation Blog.
Second, in Travel and Tourism, Scott Little had students create a "glog" using Glogster. The students' glogs were to showcase an adventure or eco-tourism travel destination of their choice.
One student told me that she felt she learned more by creating a glog, rather than writing an essay, because it was fun to create the glog (so she was more engaged in the activity) and she got to illustrate her travel destination using photos, videos, sound clips, charts and graphs as well as text (addressing multiple intelligences).
Enjoy the learning!
2 comments:
I enjoyed participating in both of these activities as both a 'guest' blogger in Ms. Nizam's class and as the creator of the sustainable tourism 'glog' assignment. In both cases, students demonstrated their understanding not only through the products they created, but also through the meaningful dialogue (both electronic and verbal) that accompanied these learning opportunities.
Thanks for the comment Scott and for your participation in both activities!
Ted
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