Christina Nosek Ellen Kraska
24 STUDENTS CAPTURE ALCATRAZ IN AN IBOOK
The Power of Student Authoring and Publishing
INTRODUCTIONS���2
Christina Nosek @christinanosek 5th Grade Teacher
Palo Alto Unified School District
Ellen Kraska @kraskae
Instructional Coach Palo Alto Unified School District
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PALO ALTO
K-12 Public School District 12 Elementary Schools 3 Middle Schools 2 High Schools Birthplace of Silicon Valley
PALO ALTO UNIFIED
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3%9%
33%
11%
45%
45 % White/Caucasian33% Asian 11% Hispanic9% Other3% African American
About 12,000 students and 700 teachers
TELL US ABOUT YOU!���6
How much experience do you have using iBooks Author?
• None
• A little
• Some
• A lot
TELL US ABOUT YOU!���7
What is your role?
• Classroom teacher
• Instructional Coach/Technology Specialist/Specialist
• Administrator
• IT
• Other
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VISION & INSPIRATION
• Bring literature and history to life.
• Continue the experience through a collaborative research and writing.
• Solidify the experience with a student-driven iBooks Author collective project.
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A FIELD TRIP TO ALCATRAZ
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TEACHER COLLABORATION &
PROJECT PLANNING• Post-Field Trip, we sat down to plan.
• Discussed where students were first.
• Then, discussed where they need to go.
• Planned a few mini-lessons to start.
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UNIT OVERVIEW• Part 1: Thinking back to the field trip: Gathering Ideas, getting
into groups, determining chapters.
• Part 2: Research & Writing
• Part 3: Digital Citizenship, Creative Credit and Copyright
• Part 4: iBooks Author features and widgets
• Part 5: Graphic design
• Many work sessions in between!
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From our SmartNotebook lesson
Teaching
Artifact
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Teaching
Artifact
WRITING WORKSHOP
• Idea Generation, Research
• Organization
• Drafting in Google Drive
• Revising/Conferring
• Sometimes Publishing
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DETERMINING CHAPTERS
• Teacher determined groups of two to three students.
• We all brainstormed chapter topics.
• Students selected which chapters they wanted to write.
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Teaching
Artifact
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Teaching
Artifact
PART TWO: STUDENT RESEARCH & WRITING
• Primary Sources
• Alcatraz guides
• Online articles & sites
• Own experience
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PART THREE: DIGITAL
CITIZENSHIP
Creative Credit and Copyright lessons
from Common Sense Media
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“Whose is it, Anyway?”
GOOGLE SEARCH���27
PART FOUR: IBOOKS AUTHOR AND WIDGETS
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WIDGETS���29
BOOK DESIGN���30
• Customized the template
• Font discussions and agreements
• Uniformity
WORK FLOW• Cutting and pasting from
Google Drive.
• Students needed explicit procedure.
• Copy Google doc.
• Double click and highlight iBook Author text.
• Paste.
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COPYING CHAPTERS ���36
TITLE & TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Students determined sequence
• Challenging format
• Section titles & pictures
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REFLECTIONS
• Challenges
• Ah-ha's!
• Be Preventative
• Teaching Tips
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THANK YOU!���40
Christina Nosek @christinanosek 5th Grade Teacher
Palo Alto Unified School District
Ellen Kraska @kraskae
Instructional Coach Palo Alto Unified School District
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