Glogster
This is one aspect of my final project that I wanted to share. I am going retell one story from Tim O'Brien's novel The Things They Carry. It will be multigenre, and through it I will be trying to more deeply understand one of the stories. this spring Iplan to use it as a model for students as they will retell a different story from the novel.
I plan to use the following tools:
Glogster
voice thread
A blog
A photo story
A wiki
I will retell the story in the following genres:
A letter home (using Voice thread)
A family blog
A movie poster (Glogster)
A news article (wiki)
A found poem (wiki)
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Wow! This is awesome! You are using the tools we've been talking about in our class with your students and it seems to me in such an exciting way. The GLOGSTER introduces the setting and characters and your profile draws us into the time. The FROM THE FRONT page incorporates video as well as text and photo insert. I am excited for your students. Vietnam, which is still real to me (my brother was drafted and became an MP at Long Binh) is ancient history to the students of today. I think your use of 21st century tools can help bring the past to reality for them. I can also see, if you had time, having students WIKI or BLOG about what else was happening during the time frame of the book. The 60s were an exciting but dangerous time.
ReplyDeleteSo how do you get to the pages? I feel like a complete rookie. I can't figure out how to get to the From the Front page. It sounds really cool and I want to check out how you are using it.
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