Grade 7s! Welcome back!
We have applied for a technology grant for $15,000 … AND got it! And now you get to use the technology. iPads, Nikon digital cameras, professional microphones. Just wait! It's going to be amazing!
The first project that was put forward to the Board was to create professional Read-Aloud books for our Primary students. Say WHAT???
You guys are going to research and check out read-aloud books that are out there on the internet right now and figure our what makes them really rock - (you're hooked and want to listen to the whole thing) and what really sucks or loses your attention before you get half way through.
Once we have figured out what is going to make amazing Read-Alouds, you will each get to choose a favourite book from when you were a kid and YOU are going to become a film maker and create one of these read-alouds that we will publish on our YouTube channel for the world to see but also make a QR code for all the Primary Classes at Murray to have at their disposal to read at the listening centres they will now have with the iPads for their classrooms! Man. Long sentence!
Down to BUSINESS! Go to any of these sites. Read Alouds 1, Read Alouds 2, Read Alouds 3, Read Alouds 4, Read Alouds 5
Choose any of the Read-Alouds and start brainstorming on the Popplets on the Smart Board. Popplet is just a web brainstorming tool that does the "bubble organizing" for you! Click on any bubble. Click on any of the grey and white dots and you will get a subset bubble that branches off from the main idea. Make sure you read the posts that are already there. Don't write down the same thing twice! Add to the posts if what you have to say is related!
Any great feature - add it to the "So COOL" map. Any feature we should avoid in our read-alouds, add to the "So NOT" mind map.
Good luck! I've started you with 3 categories. Let's see what you get!
