Online Projects, Collaboration Sites, and Publishing Opportunities

Name: Hannah Johnson

Grade Level: 3rd
Content Area: ELA: Writing Narratives
Standards Addressed: ELAGSE3W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences
or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
a. Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event
sequence that unfolds naturally.
b. Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and
events or show the response of characters to situations.
c. Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
d. Provide a sense of closure
Title of Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity:
KidPub
URL of Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity: http://www.kidpub.com
Describe how you would use the Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing
Opportunity in your classroom: Students will learn the necessary components of writing a
narrative. They will establish a situation with naturally unfolding events, characters, dialogue
with thoughts and feelings from the characters, sensible event sequencing, and story closure.
Students will then create a story either by themselves or with a group to publish onto KidPub
where they can share their writing and talk to other students about writing.
What technologies would be required to implement this proposed learning activity in a
classroom? Computer with internet access
Describe how the following features are addressed in this learning experience (note: all of
them may not be addressed in the project, but most should be if you are reaching a high
LoTi Level.):
a. Collaboration with peers, near-peers, mentors outside their classroom and
often beyond their school: Students will publish their narratives onto the website
where they can collaborate with other students outside of the classroom.
b. Student-centered learning and knowledge creation (collecting original data
and or producing original products as a result of engaging in the project):
Students will have the opportunity to learn and implement all of the major
components of writing a narrative into their practice samples. At the end of the
unit, students will create a full narrative including all of the objectives to publish
on KidPub.
c. Higher-order thinking: They will apply and understand the narrative writing
components to create a story to be published.
d. Students publishing their original work to others who will use/care about
their product: Other students could read, comment, and communicate about
writing. Students can also show their families their published work.

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Blooms Level of Critical Thinking Required (check all that apply):
See http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy
Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating
What Level of Technology Implementation best describes this learning activity and Why?
This would be LoTi level 4 because students are learning through practice and teacher-based
instruction before they are able to create on their own.
How could you implement this proposed learning experience and still comply with your
districts Internet Safety and Student Privacy policies? I would need administration and
parent approval for students to publish their writing. I would make sure the students are
completely anonymous when publishing or communicating. Students will be monitored on the
school computers and no personal information will be shown. Students will also be taught
internet safety guidelines to follow while using the computers.