Sweet 16

Sweet 16

16 Digital Projects for K-5 Classrooms

This was a great session all about 16 different digital projects you could do in your K-5 classroom. I learned a lot of great ideas for simple digital projects.

Word Clouds

• Famous Speech
• Poems
• Text from a book
• Student written essays

 Ideas:

• You can have students paste their paper in Wordle to see what words are used the most.
• You can also copy and paste text from a book to determine main idea. 

Tools:

• Wordle -  www.wordle.net
• Word Sift – www.wordsift.com
• Tagzedo – www.tagxedo.com

Comic Strips

Autobiography

Practice New Vocabulary Words

Social Skills Training

Foreign Language Practice

Strengthen Conflict Resolution Skills

Tools:

Make Beliefs Comix – www.makebeliefscoix.com

Kerpoof – www.kerpoof.com

Kidspiration

Aven’s Corner – avenscorner.com

5 Photo Frame Story

Digital Storytelling

•             Paper Slide
•             Kid Pix
•             Digital Camera
•             Photos

5 Frame Story Outline

Establish characters and location - Title

Create a situation with possibilities

 Involve the characters in the situation

Build to probable outcomes

Logical, but surprise ending

Story Spine

Digital Storytelling

            Photo Booth

            Kid Pix

            Keynote/Power Point

            Digital Cameras

Six Word Memoir (Tell a story using only six words.)

Slide Show

• Photos set to music
• Students display work
• iPhoto
• Keynote
• iMovie
• PowerPoint
• Photostory3
• Discovery Education has several pictures you can use.  You can also use music from FreePlay music and download samples onto the Student Drive for students to use in their presentations.

Graphic Organizers

• ReadWriteThink
• Inspiration/Kidspieration

Avatars

• Student profiles
• Student graphs
• Class website - have students create an avatar that represents them
• Classroom displays
• Presentations
• Digital storytelling
• Tools: Build Your Self Wild, Clay Yourself, Grabba Beast, Voki

Reflection Video

• Student uses PhotoBooth to record reflection for teacher use only.
• End of unit
• End of book
• Formative assessment
• Example

Scrapbook

Newspaper

Radio Broadcast

Can be created with Garage Band, iPod Touch, Audacity

Pecha Kucha

• 20 images, no text
• 20 seconds per slide to advance automatically
• Presenter speaks along to each slide
• Here's a little history behind 'Pecha Kucha' 

Music Videos

Paper Slide Video

• Teach a concept
• Show comprehension
• Retell a story
• Free songs on Discovery Education 

Fakebook Page

• Students can make a fake FB page for a person they are studying.
• There's a great blog article with 5 fake Facebook templates  for student projects here

You can find all of the information on this presentation at www.livebinders.com

Search for "ebenno" under author and you can see her 7 public live binders. The LiveBinder for this presentation is entitled "Digital Resources for K-5 Teachers'

Elizabeth Benno – Digital Learning Coach

Puster elementary School, Lovejoy ISD

Elizabeth_benno@lovejoyisd.net

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