Bo Gorcesky - Associated Content from Yahoo!

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Smore flyers on compare/contrast Energy Science/Art collaboration

Smore is a great tool I let my students use to create flyers and posters. The free web based application allows students to easily make flyers and incorporate web content, while sharing it through social media.

 

Read below to see the work my 6th graders did as a collaboration project between the Media Arts and Science. To introduce the students to Smore, they at first made

Smore flyers that promote the Media Arts in Black Water Middle

You can  use my rubric below for the project, or some other resources in my Smore Energy Flyer Edmodo folder

creating_a_flyer_in_smore_rubric.docx Download this file
Here are some of the flyers that my sixth graders made that compared/contrasted two types of energy

Jorge's

 

Champy's Jaden's

Phoebe

Trinity Hol.

Dylan

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Black Water Middle's Books on the iTunes Store - download them here

How exciting to see the Media Arts students' works now available for free download on the iTunes bookstore. The links directly under the pictures will take you to the iTunes store. The links directly ABOVE the photo will give you more details and the lesson plan we used to make that book.

Wild_self_screen_cap2

BWMS 6th Graders Go Wild

 by Black Water Media Arts students

Build your Wild Self Stories : 6th graders collaboratively create Avatars w/ Pages lesson

Screenshot1

Black Water Middle School Memoirs Pages 7-1

Digital Storytelling In Pages

Students give writing Feedback via iBook after writing in Pages about their Memoirs

Screen_shot_2013-01-19_at_10

BWMS Toontastic Memoirs

 by Black Water Media Arts students

Toontastic : animated #digitalstorytelling #ipaded about Skyrim

Not to mention the most popular Manga book by the 7th graders

Black Water Middle School Manga

Black Water Middle School Manga

by Black Water Media Arts students

Manga Camera / Comic Book app creations within Pages (samples and lesson plan)

 

 

 

 

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Smore flyers that promote the Media Arts in Black Water Middle

Smore is a great tool I let my students use to create flyers and posters. The free web based application allows students to easily make flyers and incorporate web content, while sharing it through social media.

Read below to see the work my 6th graders did for my class to help promote it to kids for the next semester. You can check out my recent blog post where my 8th graders made flyers about Propaganda

Ultimate Smore Flyer collection on Propaganda

Until then, here is ....

Champy's 

 

Lee Jaden's

Jorge's

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Ultimate Smore Flyer collection on Propaganda

Smore is a great tool I let my students use to create flyers and posters. The free web based application allows students to easily make flyers and incorporate web content, while sharing it through social media.

I collaborated with the ELA teachers in the 8th grade to make up something about propaganda - check out what the kids made.

 

Jason's Damon's Ciarra's

Brandon's

 

Alex's    

Don't forget some other projects that I have done with Propaganda - such as Photostory

Monday, February 4, 2013

Transformers animated series review on Yahoo Contributor

Source: voices.yahoo.com via James on Pinterest

 

Want to learn about a brief history of the Transformers/ How their fame started with the sucess of G.I. Joe? Check out my latest Transformers in the 80s top animation article - which is #3 on my countdown

Saturday, February 2, 2013

How to post your Prezi to Edmodo and Kidblog

Here are the PDF instructions that give a brief overview of the Prezi app, and how to insert it into Edmodo and Kidblog so that I can grade it:

prezi_to_edmodo_and_kidblog_instructions.pdf Download this file
If you need quick and instant access to your Kidblog go to : Edmodo folder of Kidblog Resources