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Google Lit Trips: Bringing Travel Tales to Life | Edutopia on 2009-08-15
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His award-winning site enables users to download ready-made "lit trips."
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teachers and students are creating their own virtual literary trips and sharing
them with the online community.
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taking a look at the trip he recently created to help high school readers
explore a contemporary novel,
The Kite Runner. (From
Google Lit Trips, click the link at the top of the
page for grades 9-12, then choose the link for
The Kite Runner.) Using
the interactive file, readers can virtually follow along with the character Amir
on his journey back to his native Afghanistan to, as he puts it, "make things
good again" with a family he knew as a boy.
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Search the Google Lit Trips collection by grade level and find a title that's
right for your students' reading level. Explore the trip yourself so you are
familiar with the placemarks and other resources before showing your students
how to follow the journey online.
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Even a place-based poem, such as "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere," can work,
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created a page called Lit Trip Tips
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Instead of having students use this powerful tool just to make a plot summary,
Burg suggests nudging them toward activities that will generate higher-order
questions and more analytical thinking. Using the lit trip for The Grapes of
Wrath, for example, a teacher could set the stage for a classroom discussion
about current immigration issues. That would encourage students to connect the
book to issues affecting their own lives.
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Instead of having students use this powerful tool just to
make a plot summary,
Burg suggests
nudging them toward activities that will generate higher-order
questions
and more analytical thinking. Using the lit trip for The Grapes of Wrath,
for example, a teacher could set the stage for a classroom discussion
about current immigration issues. That would encourage
students to connect the
book to issues
affecting their own lives.
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Instead of having
students use this powerful tool just to
make a plot summary,
Burg
suggests
nudging them toward
activities that will generate higher-order
questions
and more analytical thinking. Using the
lit trip for The Grapes of Wrath,
for example, a teacher could set the stage for a
classroom discussion
about current immigration issues. That would
encourage
students to connect
the
book to issues
affecting their own lives.
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Instead of having
students use this powerful tool just to
make a plot
summary,
Burg
suggests
nudging them
toward
activities that
will generate higher-order
questions
and more analytical thinking. Using the
lit trip
for The Grapes of Wrath,
for example, a teacher could set the stage for a
classroom discussion
about current immigration issues. That would
encourage
students to
connect
the
book to issues
affecting their
own lives.
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Barb Friesen on 2009-08-15
I can see this tool being used to generate plot summaries, which are very low on Bloom's taxonomy. Getting students to higher levels of thinking is critical for this tool to have its desired effect on learning.
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Using Voicethread for Collaborative Thought on 2009-08-15
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Because the skills necessary to use Voicethread are minimal, there is almost no
tech-barrier to overcome by teachers or students
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any digital effort remains on the content rather than the technology.
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Barb Friesen on 2009-08-15
So important, otherwise we end up trying to make a tool fit into classroom use. Are we using technology just for technology's sake or are we using technology to enhance student learning?
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VoiceThread Extends the Classroom with Interactive Multimedia Albums | Edutopia on 2009-08-15
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collaborative, multimedia slide show called a
VoiceThread,
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described as interactive media albums
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enable viewers to comment on any slide (or at any point in the video) by typing,
recording an audio or video comment, or drawing on the image itself.
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it's a good idea to experiment a bit before starting with students. VoiceThread
offers free educator accounts on its public site.
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The educator site costs money
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Educational Leadership:Revisiting Social Responsibility:Service Learning: The Power to Inspire on 2009-08-11
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Paulo Freire (1970) writes that such students "feel increasingly challenged and
obliged to respond" when they are faced with problems relating to themselves in
the world (p. 81).
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students learned about the challenges facing children hospitalized by serious
illnesses and about a foundation dedicated to helping adolescents facing this
situation.
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students at El Rancho High School learned about children around the world who
are suffering horrific experiences as soldiers in deadly warfare.
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differentiated the unit for two widely different groups of students: a sophomore
honors class and a sophomore intervention class.
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using the novel's themes as a basis for literary and critical analysis to help
them understand the effects of industrialization on the welfare of children.
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moved on to researching current issues of child welfare.
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students discuss the interconnectedness of their topics, and students gained a
more complex understanding of the world
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Both classes then came together as they worked on a service project called the
Red Hand Campaign to
help child soldiers. Supported by Amnesty International, the Red Hand Campaign
has the goal of persuading one million people, especially children, to send red
handprints to the United Nations to encourage the UN to enforce its ban on the
use of children as soldiers.
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