Overview

Essential Question

What does race mean to you?

Race In Me Poetry Podcast
Google Notebook, Blogger, Docs, Picasa, Earth, and a Wiki
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Description
This lesson uses online collaborative tools together to support reseach, writing, and publication of poetry in a podcast. The "heritage project" takes on a rich new meaning as students can now work together, use collaborative tools to build a deeper understanding of themselves in relation to the global view of race, heritage, and family, and begin to make meaning of how their personal stories are road map makes up who they are today.

Students work in pairs, and use the wiki as a home base to keep track of project directions, deadlines, and to document and update their team's progress on various assignments as they work through the various steps of this project. As they begin their comparitive research, Google notebook is used to document and cite and share sources as they reseach the meaning of race and compare their understanding of race to the world's view on this subject. Student write and publish daily in their individual blogs to reflect and share their ideas with a world audience as they forumlate their understandings throughout the project. Google earth is the locative media to track "place" as the members of class pinpoint and document their heritage maps. Once students are ready to begin writing their poetry, they use Docs as their collaborative writing platform and invite comments from their teammate and teacher. Students use Picasa to build slideshows for their blogs, and as a repository for images they will use in their enhanced podcast. These tools working together offer continous opportunities for formative assessment, student to student collaboration and accountability, as well as sharing a new understanding of race with others.

Learning Goals for Educators

• Experience a unit of study for upper middle and high school students that utilized online collaborative tools
• Learn to use a wiki to deliver content that integrates the use of Google various online tools for searching and podcasting
• Use online collaborative tools together to support reseach, writing, and publication of poetry (Google Notebook, Blogger, Earth, Docs, and a wiki)
• Begin to understand how to redesign curriculum to support learning with 21st century skills and content

Use of these materials

The materials on this wiki are available for you to use in your district, school, or classroom. You can use the source code and all the print materials. In this assignment you will learn to use several tools: Personal Google Homepage Google Docs, Blogger, Google Images & Video, Google Earth, Garage Band for podcasting.

Examples in real life - NY Times Young American Indians Find Their Voice in Poetry

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