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Cross post from silvanameneghini.com Augmented Reality allows you to expand the experience of the real world with information, video, sound, GPS data, and so on. If well utilized, it can be much more than just another cool tech thing... You will see below an example of how Augmented Reality was used to expand the experience of visitors to our school's Art Exhibit. Students in Mrs Carpenter class had to reflect on and verbalize their artistic choices, an augmented reality layer was created for viewers of the exhibit. In the process, students were excited about sharing with an authentic audience and had to really recall and reflect.  It created a hyperlinked reality that enabled amplification of the viewers' learning experience that was much more engaging than text.   By pointing a tablet or smartphone at a painting, through the viewing lens of Aurasma App , visitors could learn about the artist that influenced the work and techniques that were applied. Through Aurasma, an ...

 PFL IV - Projeto Sua Cidade e Seu País As part of learning Portuguese as a foreign language, students often create products that provide an insight into the culture that they bring to Graded.  There is therefore an untapped richness  of resources that relate to the idea of "intercultural competence" indicated in our mission statem ent. I believe that access to such products  can help our community better understand the different cultural experiences at Graded.                     PFL II - Projeto Roupas do Mundo Take a look at some of these projects below: Projeto Cidade Seul: Uma cidade dos nosso sonhos Cartagena: Colômbia Canadá Projeto Roupas Tradicionais Roupas Tradicionais India & Africa do Sul Coréia França, Estados Unidos e Brasil Argentina, Estados Unidos e Brasil

After publishing online newspapers, the PFL V class has now made available to the wider audience an online magazine with fictional news articles. The magazine is called "A Tela" which means "screen" in English, as a way to represent the different news you may see on TV or computer screens. The magazine has three separate sections:  Recent Events, Science & Technology, Culture & Travel. Anyone can read the articles and make comments by accessing the publication at the Issuu site shown below. The class worked collaboratively to develop the design style of the magazine and some students created the cover. A Google Presentation file was used to house all the articles under the same design, so each student was responsible for copying a master slide and adding his o her own content. A PDF version of this Google Presentation was then uploaded into Issuu, making the online magazine very easy to do. You can access the magazine below. A snapshot of students'commen...

The IB Spanish and French classes started blogs and sites this year. For both Spanish and French, students created their own blogs to start posting different types of writing. We discussed blog style, digital footprints, citation of images and comment guidelines. Next semester the student work will evolve to reading each other's posts and making comments. For French 1 and 2, which are more focused on the oral language, students recorded their own voices based on biographical dialogues. These recordings were made directly on SoundCloud, which allows for easy embedding of the recording anywhere. You can see below an image of the class Google Site where students posted their SoundCloud recordings. Guillermo and Cris Matheus report that students are excited about writing on the blog and they can already see how it will become a portfolio for their language writing. The ICT Standard covered is Communication and Collaboration:  "Students use digital media and environments to communi...

As Tartarugas Along with public Blogs and eMagazines, these eNewspapers represent our commitment to encourage sharing of student work so their efforts can be recognized by a wider audience and feedback can be given to promote improvement. They were published at  Issuu , which allows for comments online and different sharing options.  The news articles are fictitious and were created by individual students as practice for the newspaper writing style in Laureana's and Ana Paula's classes. Collaboration happened in the grouping of articles to form a  newspaper. Students also had to agree on the first page headlines and A Formiga Herald                         the newspaper formatting-style                    Once uploaded, most students read each others' articles and posted comments online. You can read the newspapers by clicking on the...

In this project, Adriana Silveira asked the students to create their own poems based on  themes from the well known Brazilian poets Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Cecília Meireles and Vinicius de Moares (IB course). The theme from the poems was illustrated with pictures from the students' personal collection.  Then, an electronic magazine was created to share the student work, celebrating their sensibility and mastery of the language. By making the eMagazine public, the expectation is to open up to more viewers and invite feedback through comments on the magazine site. Students worked as a group to make decisions on the emagazine design, so you will see that each group was very creative, coming up with completely different styles. To work collaboratively, the class shared a Google Presentation where blueprint" pages were created. Then each student made a copy of the blueprint slide, changing colors and font according to the style defined by the class. A snapshot of...