8th Assignment - Addictions

9th Grade - Due on the 4th of March

Hi guys, access the voicethread below and listen to what you're supposed to do. You can view it fullscreen HERE.


You may use the following tools:
Animoto
GoAnimate
Xtranormal
Photopeach
Powerpoint
MovieMaker
Glogster
Authorstream

You'll find some useful information HERE.
Use Sqworl to bookmark any other website you think is relevant for the task at hand. Use Compfight to get copyright photos.

7th Assignment - St Valentine

8th GRADE - Due on the 13th of February

Hi guys, hope you enjoyed your reading assignment. Am really looking forward to your presentations in class. :)

Now, as far as St.Valentine goes, we have joined the wiki Celebr8Uand MeDigitally, so lets create magic shall we? ;)

Please, choose 2 of the tasks below and then put it on your blog.

• Create a Valentine's card on animoto or goanimate
• Recreate a scene in Xtranormal between 2 famous couples - could be historical couples like Romeo and Juliet or present day couples from a romantic movie that you like.
• Do a research project about famous historical couples and present it either through glogster or capzles.
• Go into the origins of St. Valentine's Day and create a short movie on it using Movie Maker or just scrapblog
• Record a Valentine's message using Vocaroo
• Write a poem or choose a poem and then perform it (audio or Video)
• Research and send us the stories of a couple from our own culture using one of the web 2.0 tools of your choice.
• Prepare a crossword puzzle using justcrosswords
• Create a mini-dictionary using wordwizard.

Check out the content of this Live Binder to access web pages that might be useful for you research.

If you have any questions or doubts, e-mail me or use the Audio Dropbox and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

6th Assignment

8th and 9th GRADE - Due on the 30th of January

Here's your 1st assignment of 2010. Hope you enjoy it! :)

This tasks is all about books, audiobooks to be precise. So, I want you to visit StoryBee, LoudLit and Storylineonline and choose ONE audiobook. Listen and/or read the story and then choose one or two of the tools below to: briefly present the author; explain what you (dis)liked about the story and then retell the story or create a new version of it.

Tools you may use:
GoAnimate
Xtranormal
Toondoo
Glogster
Capzles
Tar Heel Reader

As usual, should you have any questions or doubts feel free to contact me. ;-) Happy readings!

13th Assignment

Awesome work with the magazines guys! :) Now lets make some more magic and move on to your next assignment, which will only be due on the 31st of May so as to give you time to deal with the upcoming tests. This assignment will still focus on the Media. You are only required to do ONE of the tasks below:

- Create a timeline using either Capzles or OurStory. It can be about a person's path or an event. Check Google News Timeline if you need inspiration.

- News in rap has a really interesting way of presenting the news: they rap about it! :) Your mission is to either record yourself (video or audio) performing their news in rap or you could go for bust and try to create your own News in Rap. If you pick the latter you can use Newsmap for inspiration and RhymeZone will help you out with the pesky rhymes. ;)

-Put yourself in a reporter's shoes and video yourself presenting a piece of news. Yes, you can make up your own news story. If you are camera shy head over to Xtranormal and create your news show there.

Fizeram um trabalho espectacular nas revistas! :) Agora vamos lá fazer mais um pouco de magia e começar na vossa próxima tarefa, que terá de ser publicada até ao dia 31 de Maio, o que vos deixa à vontade para lidarem com os testes que se avizinham. Esta tarefa ainda está relacionada com os Media. Escolham apenas UMA das tarefas estipuladas abaixo.
- Criem uma "linha do tempo" usando Capzles ou OurStory. Pode ser sobre o percurso de uma pessoa ou sobre um evento. Consultem o Google News Timeline se precisarem de inspiração.
- News in rap tem uma maneira muito engraçada de apresentar as notícias: eles criam uma canção de rap! A vossa tarefa é gravarem (video ou audio) a vós próprios a cantarem uma das músicas deles, ou então podem dar tudo por tudo e tentar criar uma News in Rap. Caso escolham esta última, consultem o Newsmap para inspiração e encontrarão ajuda com as rimas na RhymeZone. ;)

-Finjam que são repórteres e filmem-se a apresentar as notícias. Sim, podem inventar as vossas próprias notícias. Se não conseguem lidar com as câmaras acedam ao Xtranormal e criem as vosso noticiário lá