Project ideas

Additional digital lesson ideas inspired and adapted from projects in the 2012 OWP

Students will...

• create Twitter statuses to summarize a long passage
• condense a narrative story and retell using Twitter statuses
• brainstorm an Object Essay by creating a 5-Frame Essay without words using photographs of objects that are meaningful to their story
• research different aspects of biographical or historical context for an upcoming novel unit, create a digital story in groups, and present the findings to the class
• create a digital essay on a process
• utilize podcasting in a literature station (students go around the room and complete tasks at unique stations, composing a podcast at one).
• collaboratively compose a letter in the voice of a literary character, using a wiki such as Google Docs
• create a digital story to teach each other a literary technique
• make executive decisions on how to compile an anthology of their projects
• create a photo/digital essay on a news story that interests them, changing the mode and summarizing the highlights
• take a stance and compile ideas from every "Storytelling" class project to create their personal philosophy in a photo essay or podcast