The first site I selected, Drama Project Tools, is a topic located under media and discusses a drama project tool, Celtx, that is free to download and use with your class. I found this tool to be something that could students could use within a highschool drama class for group projects. Otherwise I found this to be too complex for the younger ages. This is a free software that can create media projects such as movies, advertisement, screenplays, and theater plays. This software might work if it is teacher led in the younger grades and could actually be something exciting for the students to work on as a month long project.The second site I selected is located under culture. I found this particular site, Iconic Teen Video, interesting because it could motivate students to do the same kind of filming of their own issues. It encourages students to take control of their world and touch upon issues and discuss some topics that directly influence and interest them. Even though this particular situation turned out to be staged and actually had a script writer, students could turn it around and make it about them and thier lives.
The last site I selected was located under the tab chat. Make your own chat room, discusses how people can make their own chatrooms. This can be used in the educational environment for having discussions on particular topics within the classroom. Instead of having an open oral discussion, you can create an online chat that shows how many times each person participated. This could also be useful for those students that are not very vocal and can help them participate in class discussions. It would be important to discuss appropriate behavior and how people can agree to disagree.
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