All teachers have strategies that they use in the classroom. But you never really see teachers using tools that are on the internet. What I have found is a strategy that a teacher uses in his/ her classroom and applied a video tool with the strategy.
A teaching strategy that I thought would fit with tool video, was called R.A.F.T (Role, Audience, Format& Topic) . The meaning of R.A.F.T is
- R: Role of Writer – Who are you?
- A: Audience – to whom s this written to?
- F: Format – what form will take place?
- T: Topic- What important topic have I chosen?
The video tool that I see fits this strategy is called Xtranormal. Within this tool students will be able create a movie with cartoons or short movies. They have to write a script (which is also good for students in English class), make the actors move, change the angles of the camera, put music in the background and so forth.
I would use this tool with maybe an English class. We all know reading a book and testing over it can be boring, but what if you let your students make their own version movie of what they read. This is where the RAFT strategy comes into play to make the movie and stay on topic of the book. Creating a short movie can take time as well, but to really get your student working give them about a week to put together their creations. They will reference back to the book and translate what they know to their peers. This will give everyone a chance to teach other something and it also shows that they had to read the book and understand what was happing in the novel.
How will we use RAFT exactly?
Raft can be use by having the students starting of with an information page about what they want to do their movie over. This information page will have the Role of the writer, who the audience is, the format, make the student explain what kind of language they are going to use. For example if the book is in a poem format the movie should be in a poem format as well. And for topic have the students chose what part of the book/ novel they want to cover so they don’t jump all over the place and their movie has no purpose.
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Interesting idea. I agree that traditional means of reading and testing or writing "book reports" is boring. A project such as this could get students actively involved in literature. I like the way it could be applied to a novel or poetry. This could be a good tool for an English class.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think students would have a lot of fun with this. It'd definitely make good use of the different intelligences; students could be artistic and creative with it. Perhaps this could be a good Problem-Based Learning activity as well.
-Gabriel
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