Submitted by: Elizabeth Waggoner
Collaborators: Emily Hite & Alison Fisher
School: Chamberlayne
Summary
The students will use a variety of resources to create a GLOG for them to use in the classroom and at home. The students will work in pairs in respective classrooms to create a voice thread and/or blabberize on events or historical figures in a given unit. Collaboratively, one pair from each classroom will design a GLOG with social studies concepts for review. They will research their topics and make videos and voice threads to incorporate in their GLOG. They will post their GLOG on the classroom wiki or blog. Through this process the students will have chosen a variety of events and historical figures. This provides detailed review for several concepts within the two selected time periods as students are given time to preview their peers’ final products. This allows multi-modality instruction for students from different ability levels.
TIPC Ratings
Students will be using a variety of technology resources, prior knowledge, and teacher support to complete this unit. This lesson falls in the Developing range because students extended a teacher-given prompt in their own ways.
Students will work in pairs and groups, and their work is published online for other audiences to view. This falls in the Approaching range because students formed their own groups and published for a wide audience beyond the classroom.
Students work individually and together to write a “script” for their GLOG poster. This falls in the Developing range because students solved problems in a teacher-directed assignment and elaborated on their answers.
A GLOG lets the students express their thoughts about the projects they are including in their online poster. This falls in the Approaching range because students created original products within the parameters established by the teacher.
Student Artifact
Glog by Waggoner’s 4th Grade Class from HCPS Instructional Technology on Vimeo.
