Thing 14 Publish Something



 

I worked with a 5th grade teacher to do our Publish Something project. We set up groups and each group had their own GoogleDoc storyboard to work on. They worked in the lab and group member were spaced all over, it was really nice seeing that. Watching them collaborate without verbally talking. Each group member came up with a noun they wanted to incorporate in the story. They worked out by sending notes through their storyboard, the setting, the problem and solution. They worked on the introduction and conclusion together, but each member had a middle paragraph they did on their own. Then, they worked on writing mechanics to make the story better. This took three thirty minute class periods just to get the story down.

During this time, back in the classroom, they were given time to draw the illustrations for their story. We just told them to make sure their graphics were large and filled the page. They could do it however they wanted. One person could do the drawing while other colored, or just however they chose to do it.

They used a handheld scanner to scan their illustrations. The illustrations were added as backgrounds for each page. This was saved in PDF form and uploaded to flipsnack. Once this was done, we had them to make a screencast at screencast-o-matic because I couldn't figure out how to put a link to our project without having to have a login. This meant I would have had to pay for the premium version. Therefore, we have sound.