Carver Digital Resources
• ABC Books Students can write ABC books about a research subject. This can be done in groups or individually.
• Acronym Pages Students can write Acronym pages individually or with a group if there isn't enough time to write an ABC book.
• Animoto - Ms Zaheer's 6th grade students explore intercultural icons and landmarks and then create models of them. Mrs. Edwards took pictures of many of these projects and created the Animoto. Students and teachers can create Animotos.
• Blabberize - You need a picture and a podcast. Animate a figure with your voice.
• Comic Books - Create a comic book using slides from PowerPoint and put it into a wiki page.
• Super Hero Squad Show; Marvel Comics; Hero Machine Classic. Choose a male and a female Superhero and identify their physical traits. Then students predict what traits a child of these two Superheroes would have and create a picture of that Superhero child. Mr. Grimes uses this in his genetics unit.
• Comic Book Periodic Table Click on a chemical. Comics with characters relevant to that element will come up. Click on the pictures to read the comic. (Not all elements have comics yet.)
• Crazy Talk - It begins with a podcast. Use the podcast to animate an animal.
• Cubing Cubing - a method for discovering ideas about a topic by using six strategies (in any order) to investigate it: describe it,
compare it, associate it, analyze it, apply it, and argue for or against it.
(Language Arts PASS 6th-8th grades Glossary). A strategy that can be used in all content areas, that requires students to look at information in different ways, and that requires thinking!
• Glogster - An application to create online posters.
• In Plain English Students can use the In Plain English format as a pattern to write their own tutorials or explanations of research. They can use the Flip video cameras.
• Inspire with Inspiration Software to create graphic organizers
• Movie Maker - All the school computers have Windows Movie Maker on them.
• Movies - See Animoto, Photo Story 3, Movie Maker, and Videos. See also: Videos.
• Newspapers - Create these using Microsoft Publisher
• Pattern Books - Use the patterns in books like these to create your own non-fiction books: Fortunately by Remy Charlip and Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ronald Koertge
• Peercasting - Students who grasp a concept well create video or audio cast tutorials (peercasts). A teacher chooses peercasts that would be of benefit to other students in need of additional help in the concept and provides access to those students.
• PicLits - Use to practice writing figures of speech, types of sentences or poetry. Review parts of speech. Have students tie their sentences, figures of speech, poetry with the picture and with the research topic. Thinking will be required.
• Rap - "This Week in Rap is an excellent model of what students could do with their research information. Creating a rap would require students to think about the information they read and ""paraphrase"" it into another format.
• Scratch - Use scratch to create movies and video games. It's an "easy" programming program. Go here to get some video tutorials and examples of Scratch projects:
• Read Tables - The World Health Organization (WHO) has customizable tables to create. Click on indicators for all countries or click to select from a list of regions/countries, indicators and time periods. Teachers or students can create the table. Groups of students write deduction sentences based upon the table. They try to write everyone possible. Trade with other students. Challenge other students to find any new sentences and to search for any sentences that are not correct.
• Thinkquest Projects - Create a project. Projects provide a flexible framework for engaging students in exploring curricular topics and developing important 21st century skills, such as communication, teamwork, and technology skills. In addition, students are motivated by the fun and creative format and the opportunity to make new friends around the world. For teachers, a school portal enables quick and easy management of student accounts and review of project work.
• Timelines - There are many ways to use timelines. One idea is to combine two timelines and then have students study the combined timelines and write fact statements. Example: A timeline that includes inventions and important events in Lincoln's life. Fact statement could be, "Lincoln never drank a coke."
• Webcasts - Students can videotape scripts they have written.
• Webquests - "Inquiry-based activity that involves students in using web-based resources and tools to transform their learning into meaningful understandings and real-world projects. Rather than spending substantial time using search tools, most or all of the information used by learners is found on pre-selected websites. Students can then focus on using web-based information to analyze, synthesis, and evaluate information to address high-level questions." --http://www.eduscapes.com/sessions/travel/define.htm
• Wordia - Wordia is a web page of videos about word meanings. Our students could create these. Teachers might want to preview and select some of these to show students. The library also has a video from “What's the Word,” which is a commercial program with vocabulary videos. In those videos characters act out a script that explains a word. Use Flip Video cameras to create these.
• Acronym Pages Students can write Acronym pages individually or with a group if there isn't enough time to write an ABC book.
• Animoto - Ms Zaheer's 6th grade students explore intercultural icons and landmarks and then create models of them. Mrs. Edwards took pictures of many of these projects and created the Animoto. Students and teachers can create Animotos.
• Blabberize - You need a picture and a podcast. Animate a figure with your voice.
• Comic Books - Create a comic book using slides from PowerPoint and put it into a wiki page.
• Super Hero Squad Show; Marvel Comics; Hero Machine Classic. Choose a male and a female Superhero and identify their physical traits. Then students predict what traits a child of these two Superheroes would have and create a picture of that Superhero child. Mr. Grimes uses this in his genetics unit.
• Comic Book Periodic Table Click on a chemical. Comics with characters relevant to that element will come up. Click on the pictures to read the comic. (Not all elements have comics yet.)
• Crazy Talk - It begins with a podcast. Use the podcast to animate an animal.
• Cubing Cubing - a method for discovering ideas about a topic by using six strategies (in any order) to investigate it: describe it,
compare it, associate it, analyze it, apply it, and argue for or against it.
(Language Arts PASS 6th-8th grades Glossary). A strategy that can be used in all content areas, that requires students to look at information in different ways, and that requires thinking!
• Glogster - An application to create online posters.
• In Plain English Students can use the In Plain English format as a pattern to write their own tutorials or explanations of research. They can use the Flip video cameras.
• Inspire with Inspiration Software to create graphic organizers
• Movie Maker - All the school computers have Windows Movie Maker on them.
• Movies - See Animoto, Photo Story 3, Movie Maker, and Videos. See also: Videos.
• Newspapers - Create these using Microsoft Publisher
• Pattern Books - Use the patterns in books like these to create your own non-fiction books: Fortunately by Remy Charlip and Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ronald Koertge
• Peercasting - Students who grasp a concept well create video or audio cast tutorials (peercasts). A teacher chooses peercasts that would be of benefit to other students in need of additional help in the concept and provides access to those students.
• PicLits - Use to practice writing figures of speech, types of sentences or poetry. Review parts of speech. Have students tie their sentences, figures of speech, poetry with the picture and with the research topic. Thinking will be required.
• Rap - "This Week in Rap is an excellent model of what students could do with their research information. Creating a rap would require students to think about the information they read and ""paraphrase"" it into another format.
• Scratch - Use scratch to create movies and video games. It's an "easy" programming program. Go here to get some video tutorials and examples of Scratch projects:
• Read Tables - The World Health Organization (WHO) has customizable tables to create. Click on indicators for all countries or click to select from a list of regions/countries, indicators and time periods. Teachers or students can create the table. Groups of students write deduction sentences based upon the table. They try to write everyone possible. Trade with other students. Challenge other students to find any new sentences and to search for any sentences that are not correct.
• Thinkquest Projects - Create a project. Projects provide a flexible framework for engaging students in exploring curricular topics and developing important 21st century skills, such as communication, teamwork, and technology skills. In addition, students are motivated by the fun and creative format and the opportunity to make new friends around the world. For teachers, a school portal enables quick and easy management of student accounts and review of project work.
• Timelines - There are many ways to use timelines. One idea is to combine two timelines and then have students study the combined timelines and write fact statements. Example: A timeline that includes inventions and important events in Lincoln's life. Fact statement could be, "Lincoln never drank a coke."
• Webcasts - Students can videotape scripts they have written.
• Webquests - "Inquiry-based activity that involves students in using web-based resources and tools to transform their learning into meaningful understandings and real-world projects. Rather than spending substantial time using search tools, most or all of the information used by learners is found on pre-selected websites. Students can then focus on using web-based information to analyze, synthesis, and evaluate information to address high-level questions." --http://www.eduscapes.com/sessions/travel/define.htm
• Wordia - Wordia is a web page of videos about word meanings. Our students could create these. Teachers might want to preview and select some of these to show students. The library also has a video from “What's the Word,” which is a commercial program with vocabulary videos. In those videos characters act out a script that explains a word. Use Flip Video cameras to create these.