Knight time

Group 2

Marcelo Rodi単o Larisa Schwerdtfeger Andrea Giordano Pat Jauregui

Moderator: Jennifer Verschoor Online coure on m-Learning offered by ESSARP. September 2013.

1. Working title Knight time 2. Type of mLearning language, literature, social sciences 3. Project goal Students get to know about medieval times, using reporting verbs accurately, stating differences about past and present, etc……., through the use of different mobile devices 4. Target audience Primary 4 / 5 graders 5. Technology and infrastructure to be expected BYOD Type of connectivity to be expected WIFI Stable electricity? Yes Use mobile social media or not? YES 6. Stakeholders that influence the project School directors 7. Deadline or timeline for developing the project: 2 lessons 8. A broader description of the project This mini project is based on the story “Knight time” from the book “Voyage 1”. It offers many possibilities since you can relate it to different topics such as simple past and present…, medieval time, monarchies , getting to fast conclusions (sometimes wrong ones) according to prior knowledge (assumptions), reporting verbs, feeling lonely (social aspect), framing questions , misunderstandings / puns , vocabulary, King Arthur, Relation between getting to knowledge and asking, feeling confident to ask questions…

We chose to work on vocabulary, puns and reporting verbs. It is a nice story to work with. We hope you enjoy the mini-project and go further exploiting it!

Activity

App / Site

Pre Task: Students are shown a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun screenshot with the title of the story. ibrainstorm Brainstorming: Teacher asks: “What do you think the story will be about?”, “What do you think, does it take place in the past or in the present?, Why” “Which other elements could you find during knight times?” Kids use ibrainstorm to organize ideas and answer questions.

Introducing the word “PUN”: Does the phrase “kime time” look similar to any other phrase you know?” Think of words or phrases that sound alike but are written in a different way. try to think of a phrase in which you might use one word or the other that might lead you to a misunderstanding…

Misunderstandings such as these may be also called “PUNS” Look up in wikipedia the meaning of the word “pun”.

You can create humour through the use of puns…

“So now… do you think this is a serious story if I tell you that in fact, the title is a PUN?”

Task Reading the story “Knight Time” by http://issuu.com/cutelari/docs/knight Steve Barlow & Steve Skidmore. cell phones note editors Teacher asks students to see if they can find any other pun throughout the story. later, Later, teacher draws students´ attention to the verbs preceding or following dialogue (“ … “ ). Teacher asks students to spot them and make a list of them in their cell phones.

Vocabulary: Students look up words in www.dictionary.com the dictionary. http://www.thefreedictionary.com http://dictionary.kids.net.au/

Teacher

asks

students:

”Find

the http://list.ly/

reporting verbs in the story and make a list, add other reporting verbs you already know, and explain each of them with your own words, or / and give them a context…”

Spelling: Kids join in Spellingcity and http://www.spellingcity.com/ play some games so as to reinforce reporting verbs spelling.

Creating a new story: Students can mobile phones either create a video - in groups - www.animoto.com representing the new story, using www.zooburst.com Animoto (and edit pics with the photo editors before making the video ) or they can create a zooburst with the new story. Stories should be coherent, and should have an introduction, body with conflicto and ending.

They are requested to use at least 10 different “reporting verbs”.

Success Criteria: Create a video with the story and a different ending, that should be coherent, and should have an introduction, body with conflicto and ending. They are requested to use at least 10 different “reporting verbs”.

Practice on reporting verbs.

http://www.eltbase.com/quiz/059_01.htm http://www.eltbase.com/notes.php?id=59

Publishing: Students productions will be www.wikispaces.com shown in a wiki Evaluation: As the success criteria is that each group should create the video using at least 10 reporting verbs, each group will be requested to read another group’s story and check if the story makes sense and if it has the reporting verbs they were supposed to have used.

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