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=**English Technology Projects**=

__Email Etiquette:__ How do I communicate? Your writing will take the form of an email, and you will be expected to follow the rules of email etiquette. Software/Applications/Tools: personal email accounts; video

__Photo Characterization:__ How can words and phrases help to define a person’s character? The students will be able to investigate and analyse script in order to develop the facial expressions and gestures of the characters. They will express these digitally in a short video clip about the assigned extract.Students should look for verbs to help them design their photo and set up their characters. Photo editing can be used to further enhance the characterization of the excerpt. Example: His Dark Materials- How can you use space, gestures, tone and facial expressions in your photos in order to tell a story? Software/Applications/Tools: Cameras, iPhoto, Photoshop

__PhotoEssay:__ A journalistic perspective- Do pictures really say it all? The student will develop a non-fictional essay based on photos that they have taken of a particular topic of interest. The student will be able to ldescribe objects in detail. The student will be able to create a photo-essay that communicates interesting information about an unusual object with photos and writing. The student will learn how to use a digital camera effectively. A photo essay is a series of photos that tells a story or meant to stir up emotion. All photo essays are collections of photographs, but not all collections of photographs are photo essays. This lesson encourages students to experience storytelling as a visual art form by photographing and documenting issues/stories that are non-fictional. Allows each student to serve as a writer and a photographer. Software/Applications/Tools: iPhoto, iMovie, Garageband

__Storyboarding and Film making__: How can words be demonstrated as actions? Student will demonstrate a critical awareness of the language of film - the choices a director/actor/designer etc makes in order to achieve certain affects on an audience. The student will understand connotations within language (in this case visual language as well as verbal) in order to interpret the author/playwright's intentions. Skills explicitly taught: storyboarding; camera shot, angles, interpreting text into visuals; characterization- portraying a character as written in words; What mood is created by the setting and the language of the prologue/story--- How can you demonstrate this? Software/Applications/Tools: Storyboarding Software ([|Storyboard OSX-Atomic Learning]), iMovie

__Hyperlink Poetry:__ How can I enhance the mood or tone? The students use chosen or self-written poems and publish them to their eportfolios. They hyperlink words in their poems to photographs, illustrations explanations that enhance or explain the meaning of their poem or on particular poetic devices. They utilize the hyperlink tool to enhace their understanding of the poem's mood, tone and other figurative speech devices. Then other students can review their peers poems and write brief reviews of the peers poems. (ie: reflections regarding others work) Software/Applications/Tools:

__vLogs__: Developing my impromptu speech skills- How well can I rehearse the un-rehearseable? Focuses on their Identity—who are you? Students will create a vLog portfolio for the entire unit. vLogs will be recorded from prompts given by the teacher. Impromptu speaking. The entries will vary from questions in regards to one character, a theme, an issue, or an event. The journals are mostly creative and personal; answering prompts that deal with the novel, movie and the self. By having improptu vLogs, students can investigate what they really want to say without worrying about writing syntax or getting the words out. This way students can see how articulate they are and reflect on their ability for impromptu speaking. Software/Applications/Tools

__Google maps__: Locating the places in your story. Taking a virtual trip with my books characters Students will create personalised, annotated, customised maps using Google Maps. Their maps should contain the following regarding their book locations: 1. Placemarks 2. Lines 3. Shapes Students can use Google Earth to create a digital map of an author they are studying or have studied. Software/Applications/Tools:[|Google Maps]

__Twitter me:__ How can I use Twitter to support teaching or learning? Involve your network in the creation of something new - perhaps in decisions during shared writing with a class, or a piece of music. • We have written this so far…what word would you use to describe the event/character/scene/action? • Can you help us to think of synonyms for “help”? • Here is what we have written so far (insert URL) Should the character in our story be A or B - and tell us why you made that decision. Software/Applications/Tools: [|twitter.com/]

__Voice Thread__: Students use voicethread to work in groups to develop an online slideshow on a specific concept. This program then allows others to make text or voice comments on the photos. This way students can develop their abilities to be open and give responses to other peers perspectives. They (other students) can comment on the meanings of the images in relation to the topic. Project Ideas: How to use Voicethread Software/Applications/Tools: [|Voice Thread]

__Movie Trailers:__ Students can write a movie trailer for a story that they are reading. Software/Applications/Tools: [|www.apple.com/trailers]

__Word Clouds__: After writing a piece (ex: informative or persuasive) and then when presenting this to the class they also use a word cloud as a visual representation. Then the class can analyse how words in the visual representation matched (or didn't -- if this is the case) the writers intentions. Software/Applications/Tools: [|www.wordle.net/]

__Silent Movies__: Expression without words Students create a silent movie to communicate an idea (a story that they have read.) Helps them to understand facial expression/ captions (Example: [|Charlie Chaplin]) Software/Applications/Tools: iMovie, Video cameras

__Social Bookmarking:__ How can I collaborate with my peers and share my resources? Students do a search on a historical fiction novel and then they use social bookmarking tool to gather lists of websites. The goal is to evaluate the websites as sources of relevant information and credibility. Software/Applications/Tools: [|Delicious,][|Digg] [|Reddit]

__Collaborating Ideas:__ Students can use a wiki to write a letter regarding a book or assignment. Students will produce a higher quality assessment and in turn learn important skills like collaboration, and peer editing. Example: Anne Frank Assignment or Student make a wiki as an online "handbook" ie: for something that the school could use. Moving to London, New students at ACS; Peer counselling; MYP? Plagiarism? Citing sources? Software/Applications/Tools: [|PBWiki]

__Video Community Service:__ Students do research on a topic that they can teach to a younger group-- ie: a public service report eating disorders? Body images? online safety; illegal downloadingSomething that will be used for our community-- they can make a video and show it to the kids in an assembly. Software/Applications/Tools

__Social networking in a virtual world__-- http://whyville.net/smmk/nice? Write for a virtual newspaper? in a supervised chat Software/Applications/Tools

__Flat classrooms:__ Is the World really Flat? Find a global school to collaborate with on a project-- they can discuss a book or share and communicate a creative writing peice. Software/Applications/Tools: