I took a little stroll around the Web today and happened upon two interesting sites. The first was Fifty People One Question. The idea is to go to a location pose the same question to 50 people. This is certainly not a new idea but for some reason I found the site compelling. This could easily be a project in any course here at Wooster. The second site was Pic Lits. Again I would imagine that the idea is not new by any stretch, but the way it is implemented is interesting. It is really just the classic assign words from a list to an image. The goal being to convey the story told by the image. I’m sure this makes for an interesting assignment in any writing class.
A couple of interesting project ideas
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hey. Thanks for posting and kudos. PicLits is what you have describe plus some.
Language Arts teachers have found the site and the feedback is awesome. This is a for sure teaching tool. You can choose either the home page “DRAG-N-DROP” which is the IP or go to FREESTYLE which is equally as popular. The user can write a sotry, a sentence, a poem,a caption, a verse or whatever and we call the creation a “PicLit”. E-mail it, blog it, post to Facebook and just make sure if you want to save your Piclits to register. For ESL/ELL teachers, this appears to be a natural. We are working on a Spanish version and a PRINT IT FUNCTION as well.
Dig deep into the site and read PicLits out-loud in your class or write them as a family. Rock and write. There are lots of applications for grammar, punctuation, spelling, and vocabulary.
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Terry Friedlander, founder
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Thanks for the info Terry. I’ve only had a little time to look at the site and think about how we can employ it in the curriculum. I’ll make sure to give it some more attention soon.