Brief Description

This project challenges the student to investigate a childhood memory from two different points of views, and how he/she has changed.

Standards and Frameworks

Technology Standards

1T-E2. Demonstrate increasingly sophisticated operation of technology components
3T.-E1. Use formatting capabilities of technology tools for communicating and illustrating
4T.E1. Use telecommunications efficiently and effectively to access remote information and communicate with others in support of facilitated and independent learning

W-E2. Write a personal experience narrative or creative story that includes a plot and shows the reader what happens through well-developed characters, setting, dialog, and themes and uses figurative language, descriptive words and phrases

Academic

• Create a personal narrative of a special event
• Conduct an interview via e-mail by compiling questions, asking follow-up questions, and thanking the participant.

• Use Kidspiration to organize information.
• Use e-mail to contact a relative or friend.
• Compose a Word document.
• Scan pictures onto a disc and into a Word document.
• Use a digital camera.

• Instructions on:

    using Kidspiration
    writing and sending email
    opening, editing, and saving a Word document
    taking a picture with a digital camera
    scanning a picture to a disc
    inserting a picture into a  Word document
• Typing skills

• Computer lab or computer with
Kidspiration
Word
• Scanner
• Digital camera

Students who have difficulty typing will be given help by classroom aides.

Procedures

1. Choose one of your fondest memories from your childhood.  Make sure you choose one that other people were eyewitnesses to such as your parents, relatives or close friends.
2. Using Kidspiration, record as many details as you can remember.  Print your memories in the format that you like best: graphic organizer or outline form.
3. Compose an e-mail message to a relative or friend that witnessed your special event.  Ask questions that will give you a clearer picture of what happened from their point of view.  Tell them that you are on a deadline and to return your message by the stated time.  Send the message to yourself so you know if it was successfully sent.
4. Find a picture of yourself during the event or when you were that age.  Scan the picture onto your disc.
5. Load your disc into the digial camera. Have your partner take two or three picture of you in different settings and close ups.  Check to make sure the pictures are on your disc.
6. Write your memory using the checklist as your guide. Spell check and grammar check. Share with a partner to proof read . Revise.
7. Insert your pictures .
8. Print in black and white.  Revise for a final printing in color.

The checklist acts as the assessment tool for the writing portion of this project.
Successful printing of a document with pictures is the technical assessment. Use telecommunications efficiently and effectively to access remote information and communicate with others in support of facilitated and independent learning.

Teacher Name: Sue Labuda
Site: Holaway
Date Submitted: April 25, 2002