Final Technology Project

1st Grade Writing and Technology Project
NETS For Students:
Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
NETS For Teachers:
Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments

Students will be graded on how well they follow instructions, essentially. The NETS for students will be accomplished in this project because students are thinking creatively to create these paragraphs. They will use knowledge from their own work and the work of others to develop a product, which will be their wordle. The teacher will facilitate experiences that advance student learning and creativity in a face-to-face environment for the portion of the project when students are working together to create paragraphs. The wordle is a virtual activity that advances student learning. Students are using many EALR’s and GLE’s for writing in this project.
1. The student understands and uses a writing process.
1.1 Prewrites to generate ideas and plan writing.
1.3 Revises to improve text.
1.4 Edits text.
3. The student writes clearly and effectively.
3.3 Knows and applies writing conventions appropriate for the grade level.
4. The student analyzes and evaluates the effectiveness of written work.
4.1 Analyzes and evaluates others’ and own writing.
Tech Project Plan
1. Students will write five sentences about why they like winter.
2. Students will identify and underline all of the nouns in their paragraph.
3. Students will be paired off and will edit one another's work.
4. Students will turn their five sentences in to the teacher to be looked over once more.
5. Students will create a finished project from template in wiki that has a hand-drawn picture in the top box and a typed paragraph (their 5 sentences) in the bottom half of the page. They will use Microsoft Word to complete this assignment. Students may use whatever font they desire. All the nouns in their paragraph must be underlined.
6. The class will create a wordle document together using all the nouns from students' paragraphs.