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Project Steps
Once you have registered, you enter the "Learn-By-Doing"
setting in which you not only have access to support documents in this
Web site, but will be in communication with the project co-ordinator who
will help you learn or refine the technology skills required. Print
this page and keep it as your Project Planner.
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1- Welcome. Let's Begin!
The project co-ordinator invites you ...
- to consult and respond to the Skills
and Technology Inventory. This will tell me your level
of comfort with the technology we will be using and what hardware
and software you use.
- to clarify what you need to learn in order to meet the project
requirements.
- to plan, with your partners, what approach you are going to
use to select the type of Fairy Tale or Folk Tale writing your group will do.
(See details and suggestions below).
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2- Learn and practice
Before you begin work with the students, we will plan some
simple activities that will allow us to test, learn and practice
certain procedures, according to need and the technology you have.
You should:
- Enter the teacher area and explore what changes you can make
there and how to make them.
- Write a message to the project coordinator using the web form
in the teacher management area.
- Copy
text from a word processor into an Web form.
- Scan a picture, scale it, save it in JPG format and send it
to the project coordinator.
- Use a drawing software or a software like KidPix to create a
digital picture and save it in JPG format.
- Take a digital picture and save it in JPG format.
- Discover what you and your students will be able to enter into
your class web page.
Now is the time to get help from your local RECIT animator if you need
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3- Class Action !
Throughout the project, you and your
class can use your Class Web site to document the process and the
classroom activities. Take pictures that tell the story of your
project. Inform parents and invite them to visit the Web site and
to write to your class. Have your class visit the web sites of your
partners and respond to them through their class mailbox. See Sample
Web Site.
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Suggestions
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 Our
friends and us
Your class will be asked to begin creating it's web site.
(The Web form you fill in makes the page for you automatically)
In it, you are asked to present yourselves to the other classes
in the project.
The web page can also be used as a project portfolio with
pictures and comments about the project unfolding in class.
The class Web Pages are used to send and receive messages
- from parents, from other participants. Visit yours and others
often.
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- Involve the students: work on the class web page through
the student area.
- Create your personal "mascot" or class representation
to replace the default one. Or choose one in the Writing
Wizards collection.
- Your presentation could include the following elements:
who we are, our school, our city or area. Other aspects
can be included also. Be creative! Make it fun!
- Don't type your presentation directly in the Web form.
Prepare it in a word processor over a period of time, then
copy-paste it in the Web form when you are ready to post
it. See Help & FAQ for
instructions.
- Explore the entire student area with them. Show them what
each part is for. Give them "tools for autonomy"
so that they can find the site and navigate its different
parts. They should be able to show their family all the
aspects of that part of the site.
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 Plan
and implement writing activities
Students will learn about Fairy Tales or Folk Tales, their structure, their
variety, the characters, etc. through a variety of classroom
activities. Then, each class/group will start a
Tale and will give it a title.
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- Teachers working in a circle of 3 classes should agree
on the type of production they will focus on. If you are
working with three groups IN your class, make it a class
discussion. There should be some coherence in the circle's
approach. (More)
- The classroom activities you implement should then be
coherent with the above choice.
- The site "Teaching
with Folklore" offers a wealth of activity
ideas as well as access to a great variety of Fairy Tales
from all times and cultures.
- The beginning will include presentation and development
of the characters, the setting and the problem.
- The project can give rise to interesting ELA activities.
Here are some ideas
from experienced teachers. We will document other strategies
from this year's experience.
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Post
Using the web form in the student area, students post
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- Students copy their production from the word processor
and paste it into the Web form.
- Students should then go to the class web site of
their partner classes and write an email to tell them they
have posted their part of the story.
- You could also email your partners personally to alert
them.
- Students can also be given the responsibility to view
and print the progress of the story building process as
seen when clicking on "Building
our Stories".
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View
the story and write the middle part.
Each group views the story where it stands and adds a middle
part. Using the Web form, students post the second part
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- Use some of the writing techniques shown HERE
to help students make sense of the story received so far
and to decide where they can take it.
- When your part is completed, students post in through
the Web form.
- Students should then go to the class web site of
their partner classes and write an email to tell them they
have posted their part of the story.
- You could also email your partners personally to alert
them.
- Help your students keep tabs on their progress and that
of the circle by viewing "Building our stories"
in the student area.
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Complete
and illustrate
The class to write the last part of the story completes it,
and posts it on the Web site. Then the students create illustrations
and place them in the finished story in the appropriate places.
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- This can become part of an Art Class and be preceded by
analysing illustrations in many fairy tale books.
- Illustrations can be drawn and scanned. See Help
and FAQ for instructions on scanning, modifying
images and saving in an appropriate format and size.
- You can also use drawing software or KidPix.
- All pictures MUST be saved in JPG format.
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 Print
and Read
Finished stories with pictures are automatically published
in the "Great Tale Library".
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- Print and use the stories for class follow-up activities.
- Celebrate their writing and that of all participants.
- Take class time to view the results on the Web.
- Inform parents and invite them to visit the Web site
- Use the contents of Class Web page to reflect with the
class on what the children did and learned throughout. Post
their reflections.
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4- Give Feedback
Respond to an E-mail questionnaire to tell the
project co-ordinator about your experience. |
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