Jessica+Means

After thinking about what program with which to experiement, I decided that glogster looked fun and user-friendly for my students. I teach a reading improvement class and work with my students on reserach. Along with a small paper, they had to make a multimedia presentation. When they presented, I was bored. Everyone did the same old thing, power point or old school poster board. I wanted to try something else, so glogster it is.

My guinea pigs are my lovely summer school kids, figuring if it flopped, I wouldn't damage them too bad. We are reading //Fever 1793// and doing some nonfiction reading to pair with the novel. To demonstrate their understanding of the yellow fever outbreak, they will create a glogster to show the events, symptoms, and ramifications of the outbreak. I created a model to show what I hope to see when they present.

I started simple, include at least 10 facts about the outbreak and a minimum of 5 photographs or video clips. It must be easy to read/follow and checked for spelling/grammar. For this project, they will not share their findings to the class, because they all have background of the outbreak. media type="custom" key="19380010"