Online Projects, Collaboration Sites and Publishing Opportunities

Lesson Idea Name: Year-End Writing Project

Content Area: English Language Arts
Grade Level(s): 4th
Content Standard Addressed: ELAGSE4W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences
or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

Technology Standard Addressed: 6. Creative Communicator

Selected Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity: KidPub

URL(s) to support the lesson: https://www.kidpub.com/node/add

Describe how you would incorporate an Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity in your
classroom:

KidPub is an online publishing opportunity for students. In order to incorporate that into my classroom I
would design a lesson in which students will publish their writing to KidPub. This assignment would serve as a
year-end writing project. Students will be tasked with selecting one event or experience that occurred during
that school year to write a narrative about. Students will work collaboratively as a group to brainstorm
different topics that they may write about. Following this each student will select a topic and begin to write
their draft. Students will peer-review one another’s writing and propose corrections and adjustments for each
other. Students will then create their final copy.
Once students have written their final copy of the narrative they will upload it to KidPub to be viewed and
read by peers. Students will then be required to read and leave a comment “review” on KidPub for one other
classmate.
What technologies would be required to implement this proposed learning activity in a classroom?
Class access to computers or iPads/tablets.
Describe how the following features are addressed in this learning experience (note: all of them may not be
addressed in the project, but most should be if you are reaching a high LoTi Level).
a. Collaboration with peers, near-peers, mentors outside their classroom and often beyond their
school: Students will collaborate with one another for brain storming, peer-reviews, and their final
review of each others writing.

Student work will be available for peers and mentors outside of the classroom to view and interact
with once published on KidPub.

b. Student-centered learning and knowledge creation (creating original data and or producing original
products as a result of engaging in a project): Students will produce original content by writing a
narrative about their personal experience.

c. Higher-order thinking: Students will be creating an original narrative detail a personal experience,
which qualifies as “creating” which is the highest level on Bloom’s Taxonomy.

d. Students publishing their original work to others who will use/care about their product: Student’s
writing will be published to a forum accessed by other students who have interest in their experiences.

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):

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☒ Remembering ☒ Understanding ☒ Applying ☒ Analyzing ☒ Evaluating ☒ Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

☒ Level 1: Awareness ☒ Level 2: Exploration ☒ Level 3: Infusion ☒ Level 4: Integration
☐ Level 5: Expansion ☐ Level 6: Refinement

Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

Students will work collaboratively in order to support one another.
Students with visual impairments many use expanded text if necessary.
Students with physical needs may work using computer assistance.
Lesson idea implementation and Internet Safety Policies:

Students will not include any personal information when publishing to KidPub. Additionally, their writing will
be reviews by the teacher to prevent any personal information from being shared in their narrative. In cases
when necessary students will use a pseudonym and a made-up school/location name.
Reflective Practice:

Students were able to reflect on a memorable event from their school year, and were able to develop their
writing and collaborating skills. To further extend this lesson, students could have been required to create
some form of media using technology to represent their narrative, which could be publish along with their
writing.

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