Submitted by: Julie Skinner
Collaborators: Greg Metcalf
School: Deep Run High School
Summary
Students create personal webpages for a character from the ninth grade English short story unit. Using GoogleDocs, students collaborate with a partner in real and non-real time to design a webpage which reflects their character’s personal history and preferences. Webpages are expected to have a clear purpose and share not only content from the story but also extend and make logical inferences about the character. Knowledge from the short story, creativity, and problem solving techniques are essential in the design of the webpage as students combine web design elements to convey the essence of their character in way that are engaging and interesting. Students present their webpages to their classmates for review and feedback.
TIPC Ratings
In terms of research and information fluency, this lesson is rated as developing. Students are asked to research information about their character from the readings and from other sources. They are then asked to apply that information when creating their webpage.
This lesson is rated as approaching as students are asked to use prior knowledge of the story to create a webpage that reflects the character’s personality. They also are asked to make inferences about the character in various situations and to illustrate those inferences and insights on the web pages they create.
This lesson is approaching as students are required to work in real and non-real time to produce a quality project that communicates information via the web. Using Google Docs allows students collaborate to produce a quality web page. As they will often work on portions of the web page separately and at different times, they must communicate with each other to give effective feedback on the respective parts.
This lesson is rated as approaching as students create a personalized webpage that is engaging and reflective of their short story’s character. Students use their knowledge of the character and web design skills to capture their character’s personality while being creative in their approach. They must use multiple digital tools to make the page visually enhancing.
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