Online Projects, Collaboration Sites, and Publishing Opportunities

Lesson Idea Template

Name: Poem Project

Grade Level:2
Content Area: ELA
Standards Addressed: ELAGSE2SL5: With guidance and support, create audio recordings of
stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences
when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts and feelings.
Title of Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity: KidPub
URL of Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity: https://www.kidpub.com/
Describe how you would use the Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity in
your classroom: I would use KidPub to have the students publish their original poems. I
would then have the students comment and write their thoughts and how they understood
the poem. The students will record their voices reading the poems as well and post them
onto the website.
What technologies would be required to implement this proposed learning activity in a
classroom? Computer, laptop, ipad, on the website itself
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 have family members commenting on their
posts and classmates as well.
b. Student-centered learning and knowledge creation (collecting original data and or
producing original products as a result of engaging in the project): Students are
writing their individualized poems. They would have to have an understanding of
the content and what it takes to write a poem to complete it.
c. Higher-order thinking: They have to think thoroughly about the components of a
poem and put their ideas into words in creative ways.
d. Students publishing their original work to others who will use/care about their
product: They will be posted to the website

Bloom’s 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? Level 5,
students are interacting and sharing their work with the community as well as higher order
thinking, lower order thinking, collaboration.
How could you implement this proposed learning experience and still comply with your district’s
Internet Safety and Student Privacy policies? Be sure to keep the students work only available to
people with a passcode and make it so students and parents are the only people allowed to
comment on the work.