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1. Humanities 2.0 Nancy Jones Katie Lowry Sacred Heart Schools

2. Created on wordle.net

3. Benefits Expects students to construct & validate meaning Makes Learning Public Purposeful Reflection Participatory Learning and Peer Teaching Multimodal Learning “Prosumers” – Producers of content “A Well Rounded Education for a Flat World – Richard Hersh “The Change Agents” – Cheryl Lemke & Ed Coghlin ASCD Magazine

4. WIKIS Can serve a number of purposes Creates easy “ one stop” shopping Great tool for collaboration Did I say it was easy? Just type and enter Allows for discussion and questions Gives students an opportunity to share what they learn Engages learners

5. Start small

7. Created a collaborative project between all four 8th grade classes that required discussion and creation entirely on the wikispace

8. Utilize visuals, primary resources, and create a haiku

10. Can send email to author Discussion Tab Allows a member to see revision history Can create educator account with no advertising

12. The Apiary

13. Roles: connect chapter quote and explain allusions , metaphors. or symbols research enricher - could be historical info or about bees or even black Madonna Vocabulary blog as a character blog as a character ( this would be to have at least 2 perspectives other than Lily's per chapter, maybe add another as more characters are introduced) Illustrator ( I am working to have a clear description of this) Key quotes or concepts and support Powerful paragraph - choose either because of concepts ,theme, or writing style and explain 10. Motifs or extended metaphors - how they continue and or connect ( i.e. the image of bees per chapter and what they represent) , how people handle grief, Every student has 7 jobs Every other chapter

14. Students drew and then scanned their images

15. Blogging as a character in response to the events of that chapter From The B-Hive

17. French blog

18. Mrs. Lowry’s Math Class

20. Blogmeister Pros Teacher review before publishing Student created pages are “fun” Benefit of recommending changes to students Cons Difficult to search for blogs Requires a lot of teacher set up Less “design” options for teacher/student

21. Buzzin’ About Books

22. Edublogs.org

24. Developing a sense of voice

25. Writing with a purpose

26. Real Life connections

27. Making learning social

28. Multimodal experiences

29. Creating content

30. Peer Teaching

32. THANK YOU Nancy.jones@shschicago.org Katie.lowry@shschicago.org These slides can be reviewed at: http://www.slideshare.net/nancass1/humanities-20