Gliffy - Mind Mapping

Assignment Title:  Mind Mapping using Gliffy

Uses in the classroom: 
Lower Elementary:  Students will select an animal and as a partnership, produce a Gliffy or Kidspiration graphic organizer about their animal.  Students will provide facts about the animal and they will include images of the animal.
Upper Elementary:  Students will select a person that made an impact on American culture.  They will provide facts and images and create a Gliffy.  This flow chart or graphic organizer will illustrate the person of choice.  Students will need to provide personal and professional contributions to the American society.

Issues to consider:  Students will need to be given time before this assignment to research the information needed to complete the Gliffy.
Once all the information is gathered students will need to be given a tutorial on how to use Gliffy or Kidspiration.
There will need to be enough computers available for each student or each pair of students depending on the assignment procedure the teacher uses.

Copyright:  Each image was selected from creative commons images.  Under each image is a hyperlink that will take you to the sight it was copied from.
All information for the facts came from:  http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrahamlincoln and http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first-ladies/marylinclon

Gliffy Project - Abraham Lincoln

Photo Editing

Photo Editing

Uses in the Classroom: Students will participate in a tutorial of photoshop.  They will select a character photo for their character study.  Students will crop the photo so that it only has their particular character in the picture.   This assignment would be very useful for many ages of students.  In first grade we could crop a photo.  For example, each student just did a character study on their favorite character.  They had to find a picture of the character online and print it out to put on a character can.  Some of the students character could have used a photo crop to get something out of the picture that they did not want. 

Issues to Consider:  This will be a difficult assignment for an entire first grade class to do as whole group.  Therefore I would suggest doing this as a volunteer project so the students can sit one on one with the volunteer and have assisstance with photoshop.  Another suggestion would be to have computer buddies with a high level class like fifth graders.  They could assist the first graders in photo cropping.

The computer lab would need to be equipped with a photo editing program.

Copyright: 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cnam/     Photo Name:  38 Interclubs-Dia 3 125

Some rights reserved by Club Nautic d'Arenys de Mar

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cnam/8475166865/sizes/m/in/photostream/

 

Original Photo

 

 Cropped Photo with brightness changed.

Infographic

Infographic

Uses in the Classroom:  Parents and administrators will review and understand student reading DRA 2 growth goals.  I made a visual poster chart for the reading DRA 2 scores in my classroom.  This is a good visual for parents to see how students are progressing in my classroom.  It is mandatory by our school district that we send home reading scores on each student.  This could be a great addition to attach to the students individual score sheet.  It is a visual for parents to see the entire class performance in reading.  It is also a good explanation of the standards that are required of each student.  I have explained the benchmarks for each trimester.  I have also explained how we reach our lower readers to get them up to their goal in reading.

Issues to Consider:  I chose this assignment as a task for the teacher to get out information about students in the classroom.  This particular program would be difficult for first grade students to handle.  Teacher needs to have specific data to input into charts before making the infographic.

Copyright: I used Piktochart to create the infographic.  www.piktochart.com
Information for the charts were gathered from statistics in my classroom.

https://magic.piktochart.com/output/79c83df9-fc9a-438a-8d4b-45b5d6babda0