Christina Nosek Ellen Kraska

24 STUDENTS CAPTURE ALCATRAZ IN AN IBOOK

The Power of Student Authoring and Publishing

INTRODUCTIONS���2

Christina Nosek @christinanosek 5th Grade Teacher

Palo Alto Unified School District

Ellen Kraska @kraskae

Instructional Coach Palo Alto Unified School District

IBOOKS AUTHOR RESOURCES

http://goo.gl/DFJe4V

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PALO ALTO

K-12 Public School District 12 Elementary Schools 3 Middle Schools 2 High Schools Birthplace of Silicon Valley

PALO ALTO UNIFIED

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3%9%

33%

11%

45%

45 % White/Caucasian33% Asian 11% Hispanic9% Other3% African American

About 12,000 students and 700 teachers

TELL US ABOUT YOU!���6

How much experience do you have using iBooks Author?

• None

• A little

• Some

• A lot

TELL US ABOUT YOU!���7

What is your role?

• Classroom teacher

• Instructional Coach/Technology Specialist/Specialist

• Administrator

• IT

• Other

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VISION & INSPIRATION

• Bring literature and history to life.

• Continue the experience through a collaborative research and writing.

• Solidify the experience with a student-driven iBooks Author collective project.

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A FIELD TRIP TO ALCATRAZ

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TEACHER COLLABORATION &

PROJECT PLANNING• Post-Field Trip, we sat down to plan.

• Discussed where students were first.

• Then, discussed where they need to go.

• Planned a few mini-lessons to start.

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UNIT OVERVIEW• Part 1: Thinking back to the field trip: Gathering Ideas, getting

into groups, determining chapters.

• Part 2: Research & Writing

• Part 3: Digital Citizenship, Creative Credit and Copyright

• Part 4: iBooks Author features and widgets

• Part 5: Graphic design

• Many work sessions in between!

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From our SmartNotebook lesson

Teaching

Artifact

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Teaching

Artifact

WRITING WORKSHOP

• Idea Generation, Research

• Organization

• Drafting in Google Drive

• Revising/Conferring

• Sometimes Publishing

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DETERMINING CHAPTERS

• Teacher determined groups of two to three students.

• We all brainstormed chapter topics.

• Students selected which chapters they wanted to write.

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Teaching

Artifact

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Teaching

Artifact

PART TWO: STUDENT RESEARCH & WRITING

• Primary Sources

• Alcatraz guides

• Online articles & sites

• Own experience

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PART THREE: DIGITAL

CITIZENSHIP

Creative Credit and Copyright lessons

from Common Sense Media

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“Whose is it, Anyway?”

CREATIVE COMMONS

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search.creativecommons.org

GOOGLE SEARCH���27

PART FOUR: IBOOKS AUTHOR AND WIDGETS

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WIDGETS���29

BOOK DESIGN���30

• Customized the template

• Font discussions and agreements

• Uniformity

WORK FLOW• Cutting and pasting from

Google Drive.

• Students needed explicit procedure.

• Copy Google doc.

• Double click and highlight iBook Author text.

• Paste.

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COPYING CHAPTERS ���36

TITLE & TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Students determined sequence

• Challenging format

• Section titles & pictures

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REFLECTIONS

• Challenges

• Ah-ha's!

• Be Preventative

• Teaching Tips

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THANK YOU!���40

Christina Nosek @christinanosek 5th Grade Teacher

Palo Alto Unified School District

Ellen Kraska @kraskae

Instructional Coach Palo Alto Unified School District