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I browsed future projects and found one for ages 5-8 called Fairy Tale/Folk Tale. It utilizes the Internet to compose a class cyber dictionary. The teacher will read a take to students and they will then brainstorm words and compose a class cyber dictionary using every letter from the alphabet and relating it to a story. In the classroom, distance learning will be achieved through email, list server, photos, drawings, and desktop document sharing, postal mail, and web published text, stories and essays. This project uses the distance learning and can be shared with other classes of distance learning students that are of similar age.
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- Fairy Tale/Folk Tale Cyber Dictionary (#1162) by Janet Barnstable (#72742)
Dates: 08/01/11 to 12/30/14
Ages: 5 to 8
Project Level: Basic Project
Curriculum Areas: Arts; English as Foreign Language; Language; Multicultural Studies; Technology;
Technology Types: Email, List server; Graphics: photo,draw,paint; Desktop Document Sharing; Postal Mail; Web-published; Text: stories, essays, letters;
Collaboration Types: Electronic Publishing;
Project Summary:
The teacher reads a tale to the students. Students brainstorm words & compose a class "Cyber dictionary" using each letter of the alphabet & relating it to a story object.
Important: Story must be 'retelling'; not retyped from a book. Pictures relate to the story, not the word in isolation.
