Monday, September 28, 2015

What am I an Expert On?

Second graders in Mrs. Baker's class at Clara Love Elementary were asked, "What is a skill that you can do very well? Is there something you know a lot about? What is something that you can teach others?" To begin the class discussion Mrs. Baker created a class Padlet board (via a URL) that allowed students to collaborate and post their thoughts from their own desk on their own device. As you can see students got really creative posting.
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Sophia states, "I would use Padlet instead because it helps me so to stay organized and I can have better handwriting and easier to write and read."

Bailey liked using Padlet because, "When everyone's names came up and I saw the topic and not a lot of people had the same idea and it was so cool how much everybody learns and knows about a topic."

Mrs. Baker then used the Padlet board to group students with similar interests to begin the writing piece of the project.  Students then using another interactive and collaborative tool call Google Docs.  Each group had a lead person that started the document and then shared it with the other team members and the teacher.  Students were so excited to begin to write! 

"We used google docs for writing what we were an expert on  and shared it then commenting  feedback to our friends so they  can check over and fix their google document. We did that by sharing with our friends,"  said Tessa. 

Bailey stated, "Then we gave feedback by going to your partners work making comments and then we give a glow or a grow. It was cool because you don’t actually need to talk you just send your feedback to them from the computer. It was easy and fast and super fun all while staying on a Level 1 - which is no talking in the room." 


Google docs can allow you to write and collaborate with other classmates either in the room, in another grade level, or even around the world. As you can see the creativeness of this assignment kept the students engaged and enthused about their writing.
 K-5, 6-8, Padlet, Elementary, Secondary, Google Drive, Collaborative


When Mrs. Baker asked Sophia what she liked about this type of writing assigment she concluded, "I loved it because it is fast and easy and much more funner than paper. We can fix it easier than erasing and rewriting it all over with the help of our peers as they gave us feedback for corrections."

This article was written in Google docs in collaboration with Bayleigh, Tessa, Sophia, and Mrs. Catherine Baker

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