Project #6; The American Revolution, Who Am I?

Full Project requirements and grading rubrics
Objective: Students research 1 historical figure from the period surrounding the American Revolution and share their findings with classmates.
Activities: Photo shop collage, Writing
Writing Assignment:

1. Pretend that you are the person that you have researched. State as many facts about yourself as you can without telling the reader your name. We will leave this in question to see if others can figure out 'who are you?' from the details that you have given.
2. Put this writing in your PLS.
   
3. Place a link after your writing that will show the reader the photo shop collage that you have made about your person

Photo shop Assignment:

1. do a search for images of your person
2. find about 8 pictures that demonstrate why this person was so important that they made it into the history books.
3. Use Photo shop to combine all these images into a collage.
4. Use lots of Photo shop tools and the elements of design to create a nice composition.
5. save your collage as a .jpg file and post it to photo bucket
6. get the URL link and lace the link in your PLS writing assignment.
   

Podcast#1: Attitudes and Assumptions 2/6/07

Objective: Students participate in an online conference call with another middle school to be edited and broadcast from the school website.

Topic: When friends move away or change schools.
Listen here:

http://teachers.bsge.org/mbrownstone/streaming/Podcast%20with%20Rene's%20Kids%2020070206%201523%201.mp3

Project #5: Reflective writing on your Dream place

Objective: Students create a photoshop collage and write a reflective essay on the dream place that they selected.

Activity:

Describe your creation and the steps you used to make it. All projects will include the finished piece and a brief statement of the process involved. What tech tools(hardware an software) did you need to complete the project?

Please use photobucket.com, or imageshack.us to upload your photo to the internet and use the insert image tool to post your photo here. If you don't have a webphoto space, join! it's free!

Project #4: Digital Phoyography and artist statements

Objective: students learn how to use several tools in Adobe Photoshop and how to use layers to control their compositions.

Activity:

Describe your creation and the steps you used to make it. All projects will include the finished piece and a brief statement of the process involved. What tech tools(hardware an software) did you need to complete the project?

Please use photobucket.com, or imageshack.us to upload your photo to the internet and use the insert image tool to post your photo here. If you don't have a webphoto space, join! it's free!

Project #3: Reflective writing on New Year goals

Objectives: Students identify and record strenghts, weaknesses, and set personal goals.

Activity:

What will you let go of from last year? What do you want to add to your life this year?

Please write a few paragraphs to tell us about it!

This is traditionally a time to let go of the past and set goals for the future, a time to give yourself a little extra push on something you may be thinking about changing. I like to do this because I believe that you have to let go of old things to make room for new things, get rid of negative energy to make room for the positive.

I am giving my apartment a new coat of paint. i didn't really think of it until now, but this is one thing that I've been meaning to do since last summer. My Feng Shui master friend says you should paint your walls every three years.

I think that working at WJPS has been a positive change that I made for myself in the last year because I think that the students and staff here are great. i look at Tuesday as a chance to start refreshed for the spring, letting go of the growing pains I may have felt in this new place, and looking at the future with excitement ready to grow some more. This is an opportunity to build a great tech community here ate WJP that will make my students and myself better citizens, of the school community, the PLS community, and the global community.

I became a certified Yoga teacher in 2006. In 2007 I want to visit my favorite places and see a whole new country that I have been meaning to get to: INDIA! If you can advise me on where to stay or what to do please send me comments!

I will have to write to get to India. I will be asking for a fellowship so I have to do some research and be persuasive about why I should get my trip sponsored. I will have to write about what I will do there and how it will make me a better teacher. I definitely want to take lots of pictures, and video footage to show my students for art class and tech class to help them with philosophy and global studies.

Project #2:Vactation Plans

Objective: Practice writing a personal narrative.
Activity:
Please describe what it is like at WJPS so others in our GLOBAL community know where we're coming from. You can describe it objectively or subjectively, as discussed in class. :-)

Project #1: Communicating with Web2.0

Objective:
Students sign up and explore how Web2.0 works.
Activities:
1. sign up for free web 2.0 accounts

• gmail, yahoo, or hotmail
  
• personal learning space
• photobucket
• google docs, spreadsheets and video
• youthwiki.wikispaces.com
• del.icio.us.com(later)
  

2. visit each service and find out how it works
3. create your first blog entry on the PLS: "What it's like at WJPS"

• Please describe what it is like at WJPS so others in our GLOBAL community know where we're coming from. You can describe it objectively or subjectively, as discussed in class. :-)