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7th Grade TAG
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Projects for 2008 - 2009
Technology Thread
- Wordle Project -- Printouts to display in TAG Room - Google Suite -- Blogger, Calendar, Docs, Google Notebook, Google Sites, Google Earth, etc. - Create Google.com "Homepage"; work with Google Widgets and add to Homepage - Read the book, "Gossamer" by Lois Lowry, Class Discussion - Attend play at First Stage Children's Theater -- "Gossamer" - Participate in "Dreamgiver" Writing Activity -- Bring in Object of personal importance, List fragments, create "story" dream (Using Microsoft Word or Google Docs) Take photo of object. Submit story and photo to be included on www.chrislonge.com - Distribute "Midwest Academic Talent Search" information -- envelope and website - Explore www.flickr.com, www.taggalaxy.de, www.fotoflexer.com and www.photobucket.com - 7th Grade Voki Project -- www.voki.com; introduce www.voki.com; create a voki and type in a greeting in a foreign language (French or Spanish) and send voki to foreign language teacher in email. - Animoto Project -- create music video; submit embedding code for your animoto to Mrs. Longe to be included on www.chrislonge.com - Mock Newbery Book Club - Choose a "Service Project" subject, research (answering the questions Who, What, Where, When, Why and How), create website at Google Sites and submit website URL to Mrs. Longe for inclusion at www.chrislonge.com - Complete "Who Knew?" Voki and submit embedding code to Mrs. Longe for inclusion on her website - Digital pictures (Still photos) - Learn digital camera - MagMyPic.com - Animoto.com - "Ideas" competition, WEMTA competition (keep a folder of your best pictures) - fotoflexer.com, Picasa, Flickr.com - "Illustrated Poem" Project in PhotoStory 3 - PhotoStory 3 - Winter Party -- December 17, 2008 in TAG Room (food, fun, vokis, and karaoke!) - The Story Spine - "All About Me" (Part1) PowerPoint - "All About Me" Part 2) "The Year I Was Born vs The Year My Parent/Grandparent Was Born" Project -- including videos, audio - Learn camcorder -- tape interview with parent/grandparent that is included in the "All About Me Part 2" project - "Show and Tell" Fair for Family
- VoiceThread Project - Camcorder/Movie Project - following the structure as shown in "BrainPop" (Tim and Moby)
- Podcasts - Garage Band/Audacity/Gcast/Podomatic
- Service Learning Project - Making a website for a school activity or group - Big 6 Intro Research Thread - Indexing using the "Almanac" Game - Survey Reference books in the Library - Look at Reference Subscriptions -- BadgerLink, United Streaming, BrainPop, Facts on File, onlilne encyclopedia - Online sources -- wikipedia, Internet Library, online almanac - Weekly Research Question on Wikispaces (second semester) - "If America had been settled from the west coast instead of the east, how might things be different?" - "If our primary energy source had been wind instead of oil, how might our world look today?" - "All music should be free and available on the Internet. Tell how artists would support themselves." Schedule 2 times per week - Monday and Wednesday |
