Explain Everything

We are almost done with our Explain Everything  projects.
Here is the outline:

1. Pick a topic you like or feel passionate about.
2. Choose a noun connected to the topic.
3. Choose three adjectives and a verb that are connected to this noun.

Examples: gardening - the garden, big, colourful, fresh, grow

By using the French words, create a short presentation on Explain Everything. Use pictures, pronounce these words correctly and record your presentation in a movie format.

Some students are using other apps combined with EE, like iMovie or Garage Band. Soon we'll have some of the projects to check out.

Recording on Book Creator

If someone walks around our school building on a Friday, might be able to see students huddled over iPads in remote corners of the hallway, in the paper room, on the monkey bars, stretched out on the lawn...just like every time kids are enthusiastically working on projects with technology. The surprising part is that the careful observer would hear French sentences murmured into those iPads, and the kids are not students of the Francophone school that we share our building with - but our very own Anglophone students.

They have been working on their Francophone celebration projects for months: selecting pictures, writing and typing in French sentences, using dictionaries, editing, correcting the texts, listening to the French pronunciation - and finally, recording their own, first shaky, but later increasingly confident voices. We are very proud of them, they came very far since September!

Here is a showcase of their work:

Festival Franco Ontarien

Carnaval de Quebec

I need to give special recognition to the second project, made by one of our special needs students. Fantastic job!

An Old Project - Our School Life in Comic Life

I realized that I had never uploaded any final projects of the school vocabulary. Remember, this was an assignment in November, when the students took photos of items around school and created a collage in Comic Life. Here is an example:

And here is the movie version of this project, with French subtitles included:

This was a project at the beginning of the school year in order to refresh the students' vocabulary and trying something new with technology. They enjoyed running around taking photos of school supplies and each other!