One thing in my PDS that I have noticed this semester is that my mentor teacher has decided to make a science newspaper. Her class will give the newspaper to all the other students in the school. The newspaper will have their classes science projects in it. She is assigning her students to be reporters. I believe this will be a great way to track their writing skills and their learning skills through out the semester. It could be a go story also. This can be made a good story by relating to the listeners likes and wants.
Using images, audio,videos, and text might enhance my story telling becuse it helps relate to all learners. Students have different interest and putting all of them into one story telling can increase their interest in the story.
I can relate to this type of semester long project. My host teacher is doing to same with a Civil War research project that will turn into a PowerPoint presentation when all the information is gathered. For classes like these I strongly endorse semester long projects that has a one final goal in mind; yours being the newspaper and mine being the PowerPoint. I think its a great way to engage students better and makes the semester more meaningful. Capturing this in a digital story would be beneficial in moving forward from the traditional way of instruction to a new engaging one.
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