2. One True Media (onetruemedia.com) or
jaycut.com
One True Media – Denzil’s video
(msdoyle03@gmail.com)
3.
4. • Assign report in comic strip form
• Show a comic strip and have students “write” it –
describe setting, characters, use dialogue
• Have students turn a scene from a novel or story,
or a concept in a science/social studies text, into a
comic strip
• Have students write and illustrate an original
comic strip or comic book
• Other ideas
6. • “Book trailers” – like movie trailers but for books
• Research reports using text and photos
• Poetry – alternate line of poetry with an image that
adds meaning
• Personal narratives; tell a digital story (see
Streetside Stories for examples)
• Illustrate a science concept with words and
drawings/pictures
• Dramatize a historical event
7.
8.
9. • Write poetry
• Learn about alliteration, metaphors, similes,
onomatopoeia, etc.
• Get story ideas – use words as story or sentence
starters
• Sort words: nouns, verbs, adjectives
• Write concrete poems or haiku
• Other?
10.
11. • Make a picture book
• Summarize a plot in pictures
• Make a drawing to illustrate a report
• Make a sympathy or congratulatory card for a
character in a book
• Draw a picture to convey the tone or mood of a
book or poem
• Make an instruction manual for operating a piece
of equipment (7th
grade standard)
• Other?
12.
13. • Teach information literacy, i.e. the Tree Octopus –
how images can be manipulated
• Have students create fantasy creatures/images to
study different genres of fiction
• Lessons on advertising and the use of images
• Edit photos for picture books or other projects
• Other?
14.
15. • Teach a lesson on appropriate fonts for different
purposes (formal vs. informal)
• Learn about fonts and writing styles through the
ages
• Okay, this is mostly just for fun!
• Other?
17. • Have students brainstorm together from different
locations/classrooms/labs
• Save ideas from a day’s worth of classes
• Use for group projects
• Have students sign up for topics while in the
computer lab or library
• Use for Think Pair Share activity so that all
partners can share
• Other?
18.
19. • Contests and competitions
• “Free time”, but limit students to learning games
on your web site
• Typing games to improve typing speed and also
word recognition
• Other?
