#walkmyworld with Alice Week 8

Crossmaglen Public School is a very small country school with currently 15 students K-6. This is not seen as an impediment to learning but rather a wonderful opportunity for all our students to engage with rich experiences such as the  #walkmyworld digital literacy project. Having a principal that supports her teacher’s last minute ‘something just fell in my lap’ ideas is also a huge bonus both for the students and the teacher! Thank you Mrs Cavanagh 🙂 As we only have 1 hour a week to engage with the projects weekly assigned Learning Event the session is full on (sorry to the bus driver waiting at the school gate at 3pm!) and always produces a moment where both the principal and myself stand back and say “Wow wasn’t that amazing” as some of the discussions around the weekly topic encourage such engagement, deep thinking and responses from the children.

Here is an image of the K-3 display work from last weeks event relating to the poem The Seventh Night by Robert Hass

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This weeks Learning Event 8 asked the students to:

  1. Share a walk this world capturing some element of your natural world.
  2. In the same tweet as the photo write a short poem or haiku.
  3. Try to capture the imagery in simple words

As we are running a bit behind we also linked in week 7’s theme of Happiness into our task. Mrs Cavanagh took K-3 and they searched for images with colours, symbols, text or anything that evoked happiness to them. Some even had a try at composing their text into a simple Haiku poem. Years 4 and 6 again put themselves into Alice’s shoes as they constructed their Haiku’s. We had just viewed Episode 4, Hometown, from our Inanimate Alice digital literacy project. This episode was the first to let us glimpse Alice’s feelings and emotions. For instance, some things that make her happy are old buildings full of history and weeds growing in the cracks of old pavement. We also gained some answers to questions that were being asked in the previous three episodes. The students LOVE Inanimate Alice and the #walkmyworld tasks links beautifully to further extend the experience across different media – transmedia. Our students cannot use Twitter so they constructed their own ‘tweets’ on their individual blogs with an image.

Here are some of the students published work:

Mali

Tayla

Lilee

Leon

Josh

Jorjah

Jackson

Aimee

Mrs Kate Booth

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