Online Projects, Collaboration Sites and Publishing Opportunities

Lesson Idea Name: About Me!

Content Area: English Language Arts
Grade Level(s): 5th Grade
Content Standard Addressed: ELAGSE4RI6: Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of
the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information
provided.
Technology Standard Addressed: 3- Knowledge Constructor

Selected Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity: Kid Pub

URL(s) to support the lesson: https://www.kidpub.com/

Describe how you would incorporate an Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity in your
classroom: In order to incorporate online project, collaboration sites, and publishing opportunities, the
teacher would incorporate Kid Pub to allow students to share their writings and compare their writings to
other students’. This helps students to see other students’ writings across the world and to learn from one
another. This type of collaborative learning can push students to want to rise above the standard.

Incorporating these projects into the classroom can come with privacy risks as well as technology issues. If
students do not have access to computers at home, there will need to be other opportunities for students to
complete these tasks in the classroom in order to be fair. Along with technology issues, students’ privacy can
be at risk during these submissions, so understanding the website well as a teacher is a must in order to
protect the students submitting their work.

What technologies would be required to implement this proposed learning activity in a classroom? In
order to implement this proposed activity, the students will need to have access to a computer with Internet
access.
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 publishing their work online and having the potential feedback from others around
the world helps for the students to be able to collaborate with others.

b. Student-centered learning and knowledge creation (creating original data and or producing original
products as a result of engaging in a project): creating and producing original writing pieces while
sharing them on this site allows for student-centered learning because they are receiving feedback
from other students. Also seeing other students’ work may help ignite different knowledge for future
creations.

c. Higher-order thinking: Students will be creating different content, allowing them to address and
experience Bloom’s Higher- order thinking at the highest level.

d. Students publishing their original work to others who will use/care about their product: This helps
students to learn about what other students are learning about as well as understanding what is
appropriate to post.

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):

☒ Remembering ☒ Understanding ☒ Applying ☒ Analyzing ☒ Evaluating ☒ Creating

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Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):
☒ Level 1: Awareness ☒ Level 2: Exploration ☒ Level 3: Infusion ☒ Level 4: Integration
☒ Level 5: Expansion ☐ Level 6: Refinement

Universal Design for Learning (UDL): This lesson addresses all students, including those with writing or
reading disabilities. This allows students to work at their own pace in order to produce the work exactly how
they want it to look. This also helps students with ADD or ADHD, who may have issues staying on topic. This
allows them as well to take their time to complete their work, while also driving them to want to give their
best products because it is being sent out into the world for people from everywhere to read.

Lesson idea implementation and Internet Safety Policies: Since student's work can be published
anonymously, the teacher must ask for permission from the students' parents since they will most likely be
under the age of 13.

Reflective Practice: This activity can impact student learning by allowing them to build self-confidence in their
writing, as well as, learning that there is more to this world than just their little school. This activity addresses
cognitive development as well as social development. To further extend this lesson, students could be
required to read other's writing on Kidpub and be required to respond in an acceptable way. This helps teach
online interactions that are age appropriate.

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