Elin and I are two 4th grade teachers on a team of three, and have decided to work together on a wiki project that will connect all three of our classrooms in book responses and discussions, alowing for more access to all of our books and to hear from more friends about favorite books. The plan is a wiki site (working name: The 4th Grade Book Shelf) linked from our school web site where students in all three classes willmake voice threads of favorite books after writing their ideas in their journals (so they speak fluently) and so parents can access them too. We know that authentic audiences mean the world to our kids and make all the difference in the quality of work they do. In addition, this project is intended to be a starting point; we fully anticipate this project to take on a life of itself as our students quickly become much more savvy than us! To describe this project, I must write it as I think:
The steps—
- School website
- classroom teachers
- 4th grade
- The 4th Grade BookShelf: a single page with the 3 following wiki links:
- Ms. P.’s shelf
- Ms. G.’s shelf
- Mrs. W.’s shelf
- From each of these wiki pages, students will create a voice thread of favorite books, but all students will be able to access all three bookshelves.
- A link to librarything will be included somewhere to allow each student to get the cover of the book they are responding to.
- Students will make comments to others about their book responses.
2 responses so far ↓
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Pat
// Jul 24, 2008 at 4:11 am
I’ve never gone to librarything but now I’m curious. I will have to check this out. I’m so glad to hear that you are using voicethread because I think it is a very useful tool in the classroom.
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Lisa Parisi
// Jul 24, 2008 at 5:48 am
It will be fun to see what the children do with the wiki once you let them go. I know my students always seem to have much better ideas than I do.
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