A WONDERful technology project...

What a WONDERful Wednesday!

Can you guess what you are about to read about?

I have no doubt you guessed it right away.

I have been waitin' for the perfect time to share this and today is THE day!

I have posted before about how we used the book Wonder by R.J. Palacio 

in our class...here.

I had a plan to end our read aloud with a project to persuade 

our Superintendent to read the book.

Writin' was not enough. 

We needed some technology to really get our point across.

I began by havin' my students pick out which technology pieces they would 

like to incorporate into their project.

They brainstormed and chose which group they would like to be in.

1) Powerpoint

2) QR Codes

3) Stop Motion Animation

4) Writing of Play and Acting
5)Videotaping of Play

The students worked hard in their groups(with little to no direction from me)
 and had lots of discussions
on what needed to be changed.
I'm serious...this was all from their genius brains...not mine.
Once everyone had completed their task
(this took a few weeks because we continued with our normal routines
and fit this in when we had some extra moments)
I took all of their work and dropped it into a Prezi.
I had never used Prezi before, so it took some gettin' used to, but
I'M SO GLAD I USED IT!
Prezi is visually appealin' and once you get the hang of it,
you really can do so much.
We integrated things such as YouTube, iMovie, MyCreate, and QR Codes. 

We sent the Prezi to the Superintendent and guess what?!
He loved it!
He came out to our school to let us know we did indeed persuade
him to read Wonder.
He let us know it might take him a little bit, but we assured him
it was worth however long it takes him.
How very sweet and kind of him to take time out of his busy
schedule to thank my kids!
Awesomeness for sure!

Check out our Prezi:  


We hope you enjoyed our WONDERful project.