Online Projects, Collaboration Sites and Publishing Opportunities

Lesson Idea Name: Fairytale Stories

Content Area: English Language Arts
Grade Level(s): Second Grade
Content Standard Addressed:
ELAGSE2RL2
Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message,
lesson, or moral.

Technology Standard Addressed: 5: Expansion

Selected Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity:

URL(s) to support the lesson:

http://www.kidpub.com/

Describe how you would incorporate an Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity in your
classroom:
Teacher will introduce what a fairytale is and what all the pieces to a fairytale is. Students will then read
aloud together an example of a fairytale (Jack and the Bean Stock). Next the students will create their own
fairytale including a beginning, middle, end, a conflict, and a resolution. They will include different characters
and include major events and challenges. Students will then publish their stories on KidPub. Students are
required to engage in a conversation about their stories as well as other that have posted on the website to
their peers outside of the classroom.
This assignment will take 2 weeks to complete, longer if it takes awhile for other peers outside of the
classroom to respond to questions that the students have proposed to them. A grading rubric will be used to
assess the stories that the students have written. Teacher will moderate what goes on in the conversation
with others on KidPub making sure that all students act under pseudonyms so that their identity is kept
anonymous.

What technologies would be required to implement this proposed learning activity in a classroom? At
minimum a classroom computer will be needed.

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: Collaboration with other peers on KidPub outside of the classroom is a requirement for this
project

b. Student-centered learning and knowledge creation (creating original data and or producing original
products as a result of engaging in a project): Students create their own fairytale using their own data
of what fairytales are and what are included in them. The product will then be published on KidPub.

c. Higher-order thinking: Students will be creating their own fairytale story and publish it on KidPub and
then have conversations with other peers on the website about what they wrote.

d. Students publishing their original work to others who will use/care about their product: Students
will publish their work on KidPub for others to read and comment on

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Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):
☐ Remembering ☒ Understanding ☒ Applying ☒ Analyzing ☒ Evaluating ☒ Creating

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):

By using KidPub, all students’ learning can be supported. Through the UDL principals, students can have
sustaining efforts and persistence by having engaging conversations with other peers outside of the
classroom on KidPub. They also have self-regulation because they get to control the conversation and
questions that they ask others on the site. It supports the students language symbols as well as their
comprehension by allowing them to write out their conversations they have with other peers on the website.
By using this website, and publishing their fairytale, students also have the freedom to express themselves
and have open conversations.
Lesson idea implementation and Internet Safety Policies:
First, I would inform administrators and parents about what I am doing with this project. Second, I would not
let the students speak to other individuals without my moderation. And third I would make sure that the
students use pseudonyms to hide their identity from others and that I would be the only one that knew who
they were so that I can keep inappropriate conversations out of the project.

Reflective Practice:
I feel that this can greatly impact a students’ learning because it is a new and exciting way to experience a
lesson. The project allows the students to have a creative side and further excites them by allowing them to
publish their wok for others to see and comment on. By publishing their work on the KidPub website it excites
the students and in turn creates a deeper learning experience. I believe that the lesson is rich with technology
tools and is not at an introductory level. If I were to have to add to this lesson, I would have the students
create a multimedia movie using their story as a guide for their movie.

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