Online Projects, Collaboration Sites, and Publishing Opportunities

Lesson Idea Template

Name: Lauren Anderson

Grade Level: 3rd grade
Content Area: ELA
Standards Addressed:

ELAGSE3W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique,
descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
a. Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds
naturally.
b. Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show
the response of characters to situations.
c. Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.

d. Provide a sense of closure.

ISTE Standard: Creative Communicator: Students communicate clearly and express themselves
creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media
appropriate to their goals.
Title of Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity: Write me a story
URL of Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity:
http://www.kidscom.com/create/write/write.html
Describe how you would use the Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity in
your classroom: In this online project, the students go on the website and submit a story. The
website provides them with a character, a prop, and a place. The students from there have to
make up a story. When they are finished, they submit their story and they are entered into a
contest, people vote on the best story, and the winning story will be published on the internet. I
could use this in my classroom to meet the content standard above. The students would be
making up a story and writing about it. They would establish a situation, characters, an event
sequence, use dialogue, temporal words, and a sense of closure. By giving the students a set of
guidelines, they would have a very well developed story. They would have to copy and paste
their story to a word document when they finished and turn it into me for a grade. We would also
have a class vote on the best story of the class and who ever won would get to choose something
out of the treasure box and we would hang the story outside the classroom for all the students to
see.

What technologies would be required to implement this proposed learning activity in a

classroom? Laptops would be required.
Describe how the following features are addressed in this learning experience (note: all of them
may not be addressed in the project, but most should be if you are reaching a high LoTi Level.):
a. Collaboration with peers, near-peers, mentors outside their classroom and often
beyond their school: The students story would be posted on the website for the
world to see and vote on. If their story was chosen people from anywhere could see
it because it would be published on the internet.

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 b. Student-centered learning and knowledge creation (collecting original data and or
producing original products as a result of engaging in the project): The students
would be posting their own original work to the website. They would be making up
a story based on the information they are given.
c. Higher-order thinking: The students would definitely be experiencing higher order
thinking skills. They would be creating a story from little information given.
d. Students publishing their original work to others who will use/care about their
product: The students are publishing their work on the website. Other people who
care about their work will go on the website and vote for the best story and then
the best story will be published on the internet nationwide.

Blooms Level of Critical Thinking Required (check all that apply):

See http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy
Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating
What Level of Technology Implementation best describes this learning activity and Why? A Loti
level 5 will be reached in this activity. The students will be sharing their work with outside peers
and mentors that are beyond their school.
How could you implement this proposed learning experience and still comply with your districts
Internet Safety and Student Privacy policies? I could use this website and still comply with my
districts internet safety privacy policies by having the students use their first name and last
initial to protect their privacy.