Online

Projects, Collaboration Sites, and Publishing Opportunities

Lesson Idea Template

Name: Kennedy Gilliam

Grade Level: Fifth
Content Area: English Language Arts
Standards Addressed: ELAGSE5RF4: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support
comprehension. b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on
successive readings.

Title of Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity: GigglePoetry.com
URL of Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity:
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poemcategories.aspx
Describe how you would use the Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity in
your classroom: Students would use the site to read, rate, and create original poetry. Students are
required to read poetry with appropriate fluency and will practice this by using the site. The
students will choose a poem off of the site and practice reading it with proper expression to the
class. The class will then decide what they want to rate the poem on the sites Giggle Meter.
After this, students will write their own original poetry an submit it for publication through the
site.
What technologies would be required to implement this proposed learning activity in a
classroom? Computer, Internet, Email to submit the poetry to the publisher.
Describe how the following features are addressed in this learning experience (note: all of them
may not be addressed in the project, but most should be if you are reaching a high LoTi Level.):
a. Collaboration with peers, near-peers, mentors outside their classroom and often
beyond their school: Students are reading the poetry of other students across the
country. They will also have the opportunity to share their original poetry.
b. Student-centered learning and knowledge creation (collecting original data and or
producing original products as a result of engaging in the project): They are
writing an original poem on something that inspires them.
c. Higher-order thinking: Students will analyze the different aspects of poetry and
think about how it should be read aloud.
d. Students publishing their original work to others who will use/care about their
product: If students get their work published, it will be shared in classrooms
around the country.

Blooms Level of Critical Thinking Required (check all that apply):
See http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy
Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating
What Level of Technology Implementation best describes this learning activity and Why? Lo-Ti
level 4-5. Students are creating an original product and sharing it outside of the classroom.
How could you implement this proposed learning experience and still comply with your districts
Internet Safety and Student Privacy policies? Students will be taught the importance of Internet
safety. Also, no personal information will be shared. Only the students first name and age will be
published on the site.