Bookworms. I don't even like the word. Still, it applies to me - I have been one as far back as I can remember and I cannot imagine life otherwise. The truth is that very few things match the pleasure of a good book and the joys, the knowledge it gives you. Don't tell me you don't have time to read. Don't tell me book lovers hide in books and forget to live; comfortable with second-hand experiences. Book lovers live a thousand lives, they write a thousand books, they travel in time and space. Book lovers are scary. They know so much, they have seen the depths of human souls, they have seen the light and touched the darkness, they have an understanding of things other people will never have.

"A good book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."
William Styron

Wednesday 15 May 2013

Aphasia

The students read the poem Aphasia by Brian Patten and created a video to illustrate the poem. They also added their voices reading the poem to the video.

Os alunos leram o poema Aphasia de Brian Patten e criaram um vídeo ilustrativo do poema ao qual acrescentaram a sua própria voz.




The storm

Based on the short story The storm by Louise Cooper, the students created a timeline of the story using Dipity. It can also be viewed as a flipbook.

Com base no conto The storm de Louise Cooper, os alunos criaram uma linha do tempo utilizando a ferramenta Dipity. Esta linha do tempo pode também ser visualizada em formato de flipbook.


Using Cube creator the students created a story cube that can be later used with other groups or classes for a different task: writing a story with the propmts given here.

Utilizando o Cube creator os alunos criaram um cubo que poderá ser usado mais tarde com outros grupos ou turmas para a seguinte tarefa: escrever uma história a partir dos elementos fornecidos.





Slam

The students read an excerpt from Slam by Nick Hornby and they condensed those pages in some diary entries using Penzu. Then they recorded those entries as if they were for a vlog.

Os alunos leram um extrato de Slam de Nick Hornby e tentaram condensar as páginas lidas em pequenas entradas de diário utilizando o Penzu. Depois filmaram essas entradas como se de um vlog (video blog) se tratasse.





Monday 13 May 2013

Talking turkeys

The students read the poem Talking turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah and decided to do the following:
- write a postcard to all the people in the world as if they were a turkey complaining about their situation. They used the Postcard creator;
- illustrate the poem in a PowerPoint presentation adding their voices reading the poem.

Here's the postcard. / Aqui está o postal.







Os alunos leram o poema Talking turkeys de Benjamin Zephaniah e decidiram escrever um postal a todos os habitantes do planeta a queixarem-se da sua situação. Usaram para tal o Postcard creator. De seguida ilustraram o poema numa apresentação em PowerPoint, tendo gravado o poema.





The open window

Although the students' work was based on the short story The open Window by Saki, the students never actually read the story. They were given a wordclod made from the original text and they were told to create their own story using as many of the words from the wordcloud as possible.

Embora o trabalho dos alunos tenha sido baseado no conto The open window de Saki, os alunos não chegaram a ler o texto original. Foi-lhes dada uma nuvem de palavras feita com base nesse conto e, a partir dessas palavras, os alunos tinham de contar uma história.

Here is the wordcloud. / Aqui está a nuvem de palavras.


And here's their text. / Aqui está o texto elaborado pelos alunos.



Messages to the world

The students read the poem Messages to the world by Steve Turner and tried to answer the authors questions and illustrated their texts using Glogster.

See their work here.

As alunas leram o poema Messages to the world de Steve Turner e tentaram responder às questões que o autor coloca, ilustrando os seus textos no Glogster.

Vê o seu trabalho aqui.

On girls lending pens

Two students recorded the poem On girls lending pens by Taylor Mali, two others role-played  the poem and a video is being created. Audacity was used to record the poem and a digital camera to record the roleplay. The students are currently editing the video using Windows Moviemaker.


Listen to the recording here.
And here's the video.




Dois alunos gravaram a leitura do poema On girls lending pens de Taylor Mali, outros dois teatralizaram o poema e criou-se um vídeo. Utilizou-se o Audacity para efetuar a gravação, uma câmara digital para filmar o role play e o  Windows Moviemaker para editar o produto final.




Para já aqui fica a gravação.

Sunday 12 May 2013

The strap box flyer

Based on the short story The strap box flyer by Paul Jennings the student used two newpaper templates where he created articles based on what he had read. The second page was used for articles about other subjects, all of them created by the student Eduardo Silva.

Com base no conto The strap box flyer de Paul Jennings, o aluno utizando um dos templates de jornais disponíveis em http://newspapertemplate.net/ criou uma primeira página baseada na história lida e uma segunda página com artigos da sua autoria sobre assuntos por ele escolhidos.

Vê o trabalho aqui. 

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Another template:


The storyteller

Based on the short story The storyteller by Saki the students created a flipbook using Flipsnack where they simplified the text and illustrated it using images from Storybird. They also created a poem in Glogster using words and expressions from the original story. Using Wordle the students created a wordcloud with the most important words in the story.

Watch a video of the flipbook. (The next step will be adding voice to the video.)

Glog.


Com base no conto The storyteller de Saki os alunos criaram um flipbook em Flipsnack onde trabalharam o texto simplificando-o e ilustrando-o com imagens recolhidas no Storybird. De seguida, utilizando excertos do texto original, criaram um poema que publicaram no Glogster. Finalmente, elaboraram uma nuvem de palavras no Wordle.

Como a publicação do flipbook acarretaria custos, foi feita uma captura de ecrã utilizando o ActiveInspire. No Moviemaker criou-se um pequeno filme com a canção Babies dos Pulp como banda sonora. O próximo passo será gravar e acrescentar ao filme a narração da história.

Vê o vídeo

Poster / Poema

Wordcloud

Ex poser

Based on the short story Ex poser by Paul Jennings, the students made a short video using Photostory 3 for Windows. The background music used in the video is Truly, madly, deeply by Savage garden.

Watch the video.

Com base no conto Ex Poser de Paul Jennings, os alunos elaboraram um pequeno vídeo utilizando o Photostory 3 para Windows. Como música de fundo foi selecionada Truly, madly, deeply dos Savage Garden.


Vê o vídeo