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The Activity Design team designs learning activities. As new activities are developed, they are spun out into their own projects, such as Quill Writer.
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Show A Series of Pictures as the activity progresses #18

Open petergault opened 9 years ago

petergault commented 9 years ago

From @petergault on October 17, 2014 5:45

We show students a series of pictures. Each time a student writes a sentence we show the next picture. Each picture is tied to one of the vocabulary words from the picture. This gives students a chance to connect the visual idea of the word to the particular word - it's a great way of learning the vocabulary and creating a fun game.

Here is a sample of what these images could look like:

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We would show students one image at a time, and load the next image once the previous is finished.

Copied from original issue: empirical-org/Quill-Writer#139

petergault commented 9 years ago

Sra's Comment:

Oh! by the way, an idea came to me. You know how in Quill you have the app, where students can build stories. Why don't you do similar things with pictures? That is provide series of pictures and based on that children will write stories or also have those stories/teaching/grammar with pictures (very young kids might prefer those)? Not sue if I'm explaining properly, but attached please find a html file (I hope you can open it). Now, don't laugh :-P, but I was experimenting with a telephoto lens and randomly taking pictures. After going through the pictures and the sequence, that silly-story along with the pictures (told in the html file) came to me, and I published it in my blog. So, I was thinking perhaps a similar thing can be done in quill for kids -- give them pictures, ask them to come up with a story but following the current quill rules -- each coming up with a sentence, grammatically correct, etc, etc. You must have already thought about it and the English teachers can tell best if such educational feature is good or not, but I just thought of sharing the idea.

petergault commented 9 years ago

Alternate Picture Variation. Students are presented with 9 images, and they choose their favorite picture to write a story about. This gives students some choice over which path they choose.

petergault commented 9 years ago

From @sradutta on October 19, 2014 3:38

Not sure if this will go with Quill's Philosophy and lesson-plans or not but how about teaching grammar, new words and instilling creativity, all at the same time, by showing pictures, giving the kids a word (or group of words) and asking them to come up with a story using the pictures and the word(s). For example, show them the above pictures, give them the word pretentious, explain the meaning of the word to them. Then, the kids have to come up with a story using the word explicitly; or they come up with a story which revolves around the idea/meaning of the word "pretentious." I guess this idea is similar to the discussion about using key-words that you guys were/are having in one of the previous posts.

Or another type of game: give them a picture, and ask them to come up a series of words all related to the picture. There can be constraints like the words have to 4-letter or 5-letter, etc, or no constraints. Example: a picture of a sunflower. Well, they can come up with flower; perhaps sun; depending upon their age and how observant they are of nature (or how their teachers guiding them), they can come up with bee; similarly, sky, fields, garden, etc, etc..

But, then the question is how the Quill program going to grade all these activities?

petergault commented 9 years ago

From @RyanNovas on November 16, 2014 21:11

@petergault should this be closed? It seems like at minimum it should be moved to Story Book.