Although we have yet to present our project, I have really enjoyed putting together this genre study. I found it to be a pleasure working with Kim and Stacy. While, unfortunately, our finished product is not ready to be taken into our classrooms because the literature used is not necessarily completely grade appropriate (we settled on literature that was a compromise between what was appropriate for our students of different grade levels) I still think that I can apply this process to projects within my classroom. I really enjoyed learning more about glogs from Stacy. I found the one she put together for our project really useful as a way to house all sorts of video clips and digital stories to get kids excited about the unit. I also enjoyed the digital quest put together by Kim. I, personally, enjoyed making two more digital stories. I found that, while still time consuming, it was much easier the second time around.
I really do think that I will run my next genre study/lit. circle unit in much the same way as we outlined in our project. It will be a terrific opportunity to get my students blogging while giving them tastes of digital stories and glogs too.
I think that most of what I've learned in this class is the result of working and listening to the other students. I also enjoyed doing another digital story and can see incorporating them into my classroom activities on a regular basis. After Stacy introduced us to glogs, I'm thinking that they would be much better than students sticking pieces of downloaded, printed out information, much of which I've doubt they've read, to a piece of poster board and reading off of it in class. The glogs are similar to posters but they use multimedia and are interactive as well and I can envision using them to look at different themes in a work of literature as well as building historical and biographical background information in a work of literature. One of the highlights of not only this class but the other ones has been working with and learning from my fellow students. Thanks guys!
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