I-Stories:Student Memoirs Through The Lens Of Animo
My students need 2 iPads to access Animoto to create memoirs to share in slideshow form and to serve as mobile tutors so students can teach.
$1,066 goal
This project expired on June 8, 2014.
This project expired on June 8, 2014.
My Students
Students begin the day using Daily 5 Literacy Block. They work on writing, reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary expansion, and research. Students have a mini lesson with me and they collaborate at "elbow time" discussing the skills and using the skills. Small groups collaborate.
My school is fantastic!
Richmond Elementary School is located in the Port Richmond section of the city. We have century old Catholic churches that represent Polish and Italian Catholics.
My classroom is an E.S.O.L content-friendly classroom. I teach content to Albanian, Greek, Spanish, Polish, and Russian-speaking students. It is my job, along with the E.S.O.L specialist, to make content comprehensible for all of my students.
Richmond has about 650 students and we are going strong. The teachers at Richmond Elementary School are the most creative, caring and nurturing teachers I know. I am approaching thirty years of teaching experience. I have been at the Richmond School for twenty-nine of those years! I am truly proud to be a teacher at the Richmond Elementary School!
My Project
My students need 2 iPads to access Animoto to create memoirs to share in slideshow form and to serve as mobile tutors so students can teach. In collaboration with the E.S.O.L specialists, third, fourth, and fifth grade students will use the free app called Animato to create "their" memoirs as i-stories. There are exactly 40 students in this group. My fifth graders will create their memoirs adding music, text, and then after editing and their presentations, they will teach the fourth grade E.S.O.L students. The fourth grade students will then teach the third grade students.
The project itself will be compiled digitally as a montage and presented to parents and Sam Reed IIII of the National and Philadelphia Writing Project. Finally the students will create a hard copy for the main office and their respective classrooms.
I am the Technology Teacher Leader as well as the E.S.O.L Content Friendly Teacher.
Our hardware in the building is antiquated. Most of our desktops are not under warranty. Donations would support the literacy program in my classroom. Having two devices rotate and serve my classroom and two other classrooms is definitely a plus.
When my students share with their parents, foster parents, and grandparents, they have such a sense of pride. This creates the kind of smiles that are infectious!
This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
Never Before Funded40 students impacted
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