http://jclarkevans.blogspot.com/
She also maintains a wiki here:
http://mrsclarkevans.wikispaces.com/
and a class blog here:
http://jclarkevans.21publish.com/
On Jan 9, 2008 6:12 AM, Thomas Daccord-fac <tom_daccord@nobles.edu> wrote:
> A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
> > In January, I will be making a presentation
> >to our upper school English department who are mostly skeptical about
> >the idea of one laptop per student. I want to show them some great
> >lessons that English teachers in other schools have done with a 1:1
> >program. These lessons could be for just plain laptops or for tablets.
> >If you know of a great lesson, could you send me a brief description?
> I wrote the following for an upcoming book and I hope it helps illustrate
> some possibilities:
>
> "Presenting The Grapes of Wrath with Multimedia
> Here is an outline for an interdisciplinary introductory presentation on
> The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
>
> 1. Begin with an historical introduction to the Great Depression using
> public domain images available via the Library of Congress American Memory
> exhibition: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html. Select a few images
> to include in a PowerPoint slide show and add a question or two to each
> slide that will encourage students to analyze and discuss the emotional
> toll of the Great Depression.
> 2. Direct students to read personal histories of Americans living during
> the Great Depression, such as those found at The New Deal Network:
> http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm and PBS's Surviving the Dust Bowl at
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/. If your students are teenagers,
> consider having them read the stories of teenage hobos who were "riding
> the rails" in the 30s: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/.
> 3. Listen to actual audio interviews of Americans who lived during the
> Great Depression. Visit the Library of Congress's "Voices from the Dust
> Bowl" collection at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html for
> mp3 files.
> 4. Listen to a "Fireside Chat" by President Roosevelt and discuss what
> impact these chats had on the American public. You can find select
> Fireside Chat audio recording at the American Rhetoric Web site:
> http://americanrhetoric.com/.
> 5. Use Google Earth to follow the Joad family as it travels to California.
> A Grapes of Wrath "Google Lit Trip" is available from:
> http://web.mac.com/jburg/iWeb/GoogleLit/9 12/9-12.html (Learn more about
> Google Earth in Chapter 4, Guided Inquiry).
> 6. Watch the trailer for the 1940 movie The Grapes of Wrath starring Henry
> Fonda available at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032551/trailers. Obtain
> the DVD and watch select scenes from the movie."
>
> Students could also research literary criticism of the Grapes of Wrath in
> the Thompson Gale Infotrac "Contemporary Literary Criticism" e-database.
> They could create their own story about "a day in the life of a hobo" and
> publish it on a blog. They could peer-edit the stories in class using MS
> Word's Reviewing, Document Comparison, and Readability Statistics
> features. They might use Word to format a literary magazine of their
> stories and print them. They could even record their stories with Audacity
> or Garage Band and create a radio show about The Grapes of Wrath, and the
> Great Depression.
>
> You can listen to an excerpt of a radio show on the Depression that my
> students and I created a few years ago:
> http://nobles.typepad.com/caitlin_cassidy/files/hobo_excerpt.mp3.
>
> Tom Daccord
> Academic Technology Advocate/History Teacher
> Noble & Greenough School (Dedham, MA)
> thomas_daccord@nobles.edu
>
> Web Sites:
> Best of History Web Sites
> http://besthistorysites.net
> Center for Teaching History With Technology
> http://thwt.org
> Teaching Literature and Writing with Technology
> http://thwt.org/writingandlit.htm
> edtechteacher (blog with Justin Reich)
> http://thwt.typepad.com/edtechteacher/
>
> Books:
> Best of History Web Sites (Neal-Schuman Press)
> http://www.neal-schuman.com/db/9/599.html
> Classroom-Tested Ideas for Teaching with Technology (M.E. Sharpe)
> (formerly, Teaching History & English With Technology)
> -May 2008
>
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