Powerful Projects
October 22, 2008 by claguna
What do carbon fiber, hybrid cars, and spiders have in common? You’ll have to ask Kush. He did his independent research project on composite materials! Slide show. Game.
One student was able to get an A on the pre-test for Chapter 2. He has been working independently on a project about composite materials. There are so many more project options now than when I was young. Instead of a poster, model, or written paper students can create a podcast, movie, voice thread, power point presentation, or wiki. Wow! Kush decided to make a power point with a computer game follow-up. To make it more interesting he animated and narrated his slides. The funny thing is, his teacher (that would be me) didn’t know how to narrate a slide show. So guess who was the student this time (again me.) Now I know. If you want to add narration to your slide show, I can now help with that but only because Kush taught me how! Have you ever taught your teachers?
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This is fantastic Mrs Laguna!
Perhaps your students could post their independent learning projects on the wiki, so other students can see their work?
Did you know you can add audio to Slideshare presentations now too? Go to: http://www.slideshare.net/msincome/adding-audio-to-slideshare
to see how. I am learning from my students now too….how to narrate on Photostory, how to add music to my Powerpoints and lots of great ways to alter images.
As soon as the finishing touches are in place, we will post the project! Thanks for the link, do your students use slideshare? Does it work like Power Point? It would be fun to try.
It looks like teachers don’t know every thing. On another subject Kush seems to be working really hard and seems to be ahead of the rest of us by a bit. Interesting article though, hope to see his slide show soon.
And here is the link to the slide show.
http://team8blue08.wikispaces.com/Kush
Play this game after viewing the power point.
http://www.quia.com/ba/213138.html
Enjoy!