The Best Online Examples Of My Students’ Work

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Apr 25 2009

Posted at 10:32 am under best of the year, learning games, web 2.0

I’m going to a Classroom 2.0 meeting here in Sacramento today, and figured it would be a good excuse to identify some student samples of online work by my English Language Learner students — just in case people are interested. Other people in our school district have also asked me for examples, so another “The Best…” list is born.

Here are my picks for The Best Online Examples Of My Students’ Work (I also include a link to the main page of each web tool they used):

VOICE THREAD: San Francisco by Maria, Yulia and Karina; San Francisco by Luis and Jonathan; “San Francisco” by Houa, PaoChoua, & Xeng

Students made a number of VoiceThreads in a recent summer school class, which you can see at the Student Showcase blog (though I still have several more to post there). They worked in pairs on three projects — Introducing Themselves, a fable or story, and one focusing on their culture.

DVOLVER MOVIEMAKER: Here are quite a few student examples made at this great site:

“A Woman and a Man” by Yang Mee
“Love” by See
“I Want to Know You” by Te
“A Monkey and a Girl” by Yong
“Happy Birthday” by Lia
“My Bear Boyfriend” by Lou
“In Love” by Na Lee
“Chat in the Internet” by Jong
“Snowman” by Xeng
“My Best Friend” by Kao
“Pa Yanmg” by Bao
“I Love at Night” by Ka
“Black Eyes Movie” by Xiong
“The Love Boat” by Walter
“A Greeting” by Reyna
“Meet Someone” by Fong
“Happy Christmas” by Mai Teng
“Untitled” by Marco
“Holiday” by Ge Chang
“Email” by Kao (boy)
“Full in Love” by Bee
“Full in Love” by Chee
“Love #20″ by Ge
“Fun Party” by Tou Pao
“Miss a New Friend” by Tou Pao
“In Love” by Choua
“Yeti Is Not Bad” by Choua

ROCKIN ROBIN CHRISTMAS CARD:: Here are some examples of easy and fun Christmas cards to make:

Nalee
Chee
Ka
Kao girl
Kao boy
Bee
Jong
Ge
Yang Mee
See
Kao boy
Xiong
Tou Pao

BACKYARD PARADISE: Design and describe strange-looking backyards. Here are some of them:

Choua
Pa
Na Lee
Xeng
Yang Mee
Jong
See
Ka

DIGITAL HISTORY EXHIBITS: Students made United States History slideshows:

Pa Lee
Houa
More
Pao
Na Lee
Oscar l
Giang
Lee
Magdalena
Giang
Leng
Pa Ka
Tou
Vi Chai
Toua
Mishiko
Vong
Alma
Veronika
Nayeli
Tou Chia
Yer

CITY CREATOR: Students can design their own city and describe it:

Xeng
Choua
Mai
Yia
Giang
Jorge
More
Yer
Magdalena
Mishiko
Jee
Dalila
Veronika
Nayeli
Tou Chia
Oscar
Ma
Vong

BOOKR SLIDESHOWS: I think Bookr is the easiest way around for students to make online slideshows. Here are several examples — the first are from Beginning ELL’s; the second are parts of a Problem/Solution essays written by Intermediate ELL’s; and the final section were made by a mixed-level group in World History:

Beginners:

Pa
Bao
Na Lee
Ge
Chee
Bee
Choua
Lou
Yang Mee
Xeng
Lia
Kao (boy)
Kou
See

Causes and Effects of CAHSEE by Tia
Causes and Effects by Chao

World History
Tou Chia
Chue Her
Toua
Tao
Soua

POSTEROUS:: If you go to my United States History Edublogs, you can find links to the Posterous blogs where my students post all their work. It’s on the left sidebar.

File2.ws FOR HEALTH RESOURCES: File2.ws lets you, without registering, quickly upload any document and turn it into a webpage. My students created a number of multilingual resources on swine flu for their families, friends, and for others to access them on the Internet . They’re simple, and share a few tips on preventative measures people can take. Students made copies to distribute to their family and friends. My assumption is that people are more likely to want to read something created by those with whom they have a relationship.

Here they are:

Hmong/English by Hlee

Hmong/English by Tong

Hmong/English by Tae

English/Hmong by Ying

English/Hmong by Joua

English/Hmong by Pov yaj

English/Hmong by Pao

English/Hmong by Zang

Hmong/English by Kia

Hmong/English by Steve

Hmong/English by Mai Yia

Spanish/English by Daniel

English by Richard

English by Myriam

Spanish by Ericka

As always, feedback is welcome.

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dobrienon 25 Apr 2009 at 12:56 pm 1

Larry, this was a fabulous presentation! I could listen to you all day. Thanks to you and Alice for presenting. Love what you are doing with your students. Looking forward to checking out those resources. What a wealth of information!

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dogtraxon 25 Apr 2009 at 3:51 pm 2

This is like discovering a cache of jewels — too much to take in at once so I will return later.
Wonderful ..

Kevin

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David Kapuleron 27 Apr 2009 at 9:17 am 3

This is absolutely fantastic. I love how you find online resources and apply them pratically to your teachings. Also, you find stuff that sites that are current/relevent to what’s going on in the world around us.

Great stuff!!

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