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CommunicateCommunicate & Collaborate:
Egith Activities to Share Deep Understandings

ISTE NETS•S Standard 2 - Communication and Collaboration
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students will:

Eight Activities

Rather than individuals or teams simply creating reports, comics, movies, or presentations, refocus the activity on a specific category of deep understanding. Explore eight activities:

Entertain

• Visual Storytelling • Language Development • Creative Writing • Diary • Re-enactment • Speculative Project • Experiences •

Goal: Convey a story, imagine a world, illustrate an idea

Explore movie making examples:

Explore some comic examples:

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Explore wiki collaborative projects:

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Use Storybuilders to create entertaining projects:

Emote

• Show, Not Tell • Share Insights • Connect to Emotions • Activate a Poem • Demonstrate Traits • Convey Concepts •

Goal: Express a feeling, illustrate an abstraction, move an audience

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Explore some comic examples:

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Explore wiki collaborative projects:

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Read the book Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors by Joyce Sidman to kick of exploration. Watch the YouTube book trailer. Build emotional relationships with animals. We often focus on the endangered animals, but what about those animals that have survived? Celebrate a local animal. Tell its survival story. Then, invent an animal. How would it survive in your community? Start with photos and use tools such as Wordle to help visually tell your story.

Inform

• Documentaries • Histories • Databases • Photo Essays • Represent Ideas • Categorize • Show Patterns • Share Results •

Goal: Analyze information, explain causality, visualize ideas

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Explore wiki collaborative projects:

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Instruct

• Tutorials • Directions • Demonstrations • Presentations • Conduct Experiments • Demonstrate Procedures •

Goal: Show strategies, explain concepts, teach others

Watch how teens are Using the Flip Video in a High School Math Class (YouTube): Part 1 and Part 2. Addpipecleaners (Youtube) for some fun with graphs.

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Challenge

• Present Issue, Challenge Thinking • Visual Story Starters • Introduce Problems • Inspirational Examples • Extend a Story •

Goal: Create dilemmas, envision problems, kickstart projects

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Watch a student video to learn more about inferring called Inferring and Visualizing.

Use the book Move! by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page to get students thinking about how animals move. Then, choose an animal from the book and learn more about its movement. Use online video sources to see the animal move (see below). Then create their own video combining stock footage with your movements. Challenge others to move like an animal.

Explore some comic examples:

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Explore wiki collaborative projects:

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Create challenge activities for others using DocsTeach from National Archives.

Engage

• News Programs • Visual Journal • Travel Logs • Yearbooks • Highlight Programs • Create Welcomes • Showcase Work •

Goal: Announce events, document experiences, reflect on lessons

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Provoke

• Public Service Announcements • Stir Interest • Influence Thinking • Impact Behavior •

Goal: Arouse emotions, heighten awareness, change attitudes

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Explore wiki collaborative projects:

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Persuade

• Illuminated Term Papers • Advertisements • Book/Movie Trailers • Apply Advertising Techniques • Promote Action•

Goal: Support arguments, show perspectives, convince others

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Explore some comic examples:

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Explore wiki collaborative projects:

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questionTry It!
Explore examples from each of the eight categories.
Choose one of the eight categories. Create an assignment that involves creating a movie, comic, or wiki.


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