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Why Are We Doing This?

Community Service and Blended Learning

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https://goo.gl/gmpnaU

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A Bit of Background

Year 20 of teaching Language Arts

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Year 5 of Blended Rhetoric and Composition

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Check out my blog: Blend Me: My Journey in Blended Learning

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itibrous@medinabees.org

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Twitter: @itibrout

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Students Are Whiny Babies.

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Tragedy

Between 2011 and 2013

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Medina lost five children to

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suicide.

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Stomp out Suicide Project

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Filming Preparation

Storyboards

Rehearsals

Interviews

Invitations

Morning Announcements at school

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Planning for crowd day:

Opening/Closing Ceremonies

Student responsibilities

Journalists

Food for crowd

Stomp out Suicide Banner

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Collaboration Tools

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Rehearsal

Photo Credit

Scott Kriska

Medina Post

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Our Video

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Whew!

Second Place in Stomp out Suicide Contest

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Presentations for Board of Education

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Selling wristbands in school and at a suicide awareness meeting at the public library

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Medina Walk out of the Darkness--suicide awareness community walk

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Newspaper articles

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Literacy Project Foundation

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  • Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 44 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children

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  • 50% of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth grade level

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  • 45 million are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level

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  • 44% of the American adults do not read a book in a year

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  • 6 out of 10 households do not buy a single book in a year

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The Garfield Book Project

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Prep Work

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Reading Resource Template

Time

Chapter,

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Activity

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Fill in the blank:

Jack was cold because he forgot his ____.

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PBS Learning Media

President Jimmy Carter Reads Aloud

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Book Promotions

Trailers using YouTube Tools� Swede It

Draw My Life

One Minute/One Take

See presentation with Shannon Conley-Kurjian for details!

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Post Project--Reflection

Reflective Journal:

Reflect on the following ideas:

What you learned about working as a team

What you learned about using technology and social media

What your original goal was for the project and what your current goal is for the project--What changed in the interim?

What problems occurred during the project? How did you resolve them?

Overall, was this project successful or not? Why? How?

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Learning Is Messy!

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PBSLearningMedia.org