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=Week 1: Wordle=



I created this second wordle from the K (what we know) of a KWL on Educational Psychology.



=Week 2: Voice Thread=

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=Week 3: Storybird=

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This was definitely a more time-consuming task than previous weeks. I think this tool would be great for students who are skilled with text as well as those with limited ability to write making a good tool for a UDL approach. The user interface is straightforward and easy to navigate making it suitable for all ages and abilities. The ability to easily collaborate on a story provides a nice option and the library is a great way to access to good stories. It definitely seems to be easier to use the artwork as inspiration for a story rather than trying to find artwork to illustrate a previously written story. I tried to do the later and found it difficult to find suitable artwork. I ended up rewriting my poem to fit the available images but this wouldn't always be feasible.

A couple of teachers in a graduate course I was teaching this summer were contemplating creating a project where students wrote math books in French. There aren't a lot of stories about math and even fewer written in French. Since they teach in a French Immersion school, they thought this would be a useful project. They decided to do a different project but I will be sharing Storybird with them as a possible tool to use to create these stories.