Becky Lambert, Deep Run High School
Summary
Working independently and using Google Sites, students create webpages as though they were a major Hispanic artist from the last 200 years. Using the target language, students communicate the artists’ visions and offer samples of their work, examples of their Twitter feeds, timelines of their lives, and videos of the artist reflecting on their art, their processes and their life. Other students (within and between the targeted Spanish classes) provide feedback about their peers’ webpage creations.
TIPC Ratings
Students are reminded how to effectively pursue both content and images using advanced search techniques. Throughout their research, the teacher models cognitive and research strategies as well as the process of refining research questions to help locate appropriate information. Continually students distill and organize information to create their artist’s web site. As a result of all of these intentional practices, this lesson is rated as Approaching.
Although students create the webpages by themselves, they support each other throughout the process by sharing what they’ve discovered about Google Sites and researching content and images on the web. As their web pages are shared within the school community and feedback is provided (literally on the webpages,) students collaborate within and beyond the confines of their own class. In light of these processes, this lesson is rated as Approaching.
A challenge is presented to Spanish III students: assume the persona of a famous Hispanic artist and create a webpage (as though the artist was alive today) that showcases their work, personality and perspectives. Students respond to higher order question in this authentic task by continually making decisions about how best to portray their artist online through a webpage. As a result, this lesson is rated as nearly Approaching.
This authentic task allows student to create individual products that blend aspects of personal choice while completing a major class project. No two webpages are alike and students are encouraged to think outside the box in designing the pages and the twitter feeds for their artist. As a result this lesson is rated as nearly Approaching.
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HispanicArtistLessonDocs
Contents:
- Hispanic Artist Website Project Lesson Plan
- Hispanic Artist Website Rubric
