Summer School 2020 Remote Learning Opportunities: Microsoft Sway Project

Summer School Session I, June 15th-July 8th: Sarah Lorraine slorraine@jsmorton.org

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Featured Technology: Microsoft Sway

Application Ideas:

• Lab Report: Have students design an interactive lab report

• Curate and Share: Have students become experts on a selected topic. Using Sway, students can showcase the knowledge they gained and the diverse resources that gained that knowledge. 

• Character Analysis: Students can create a profile of a character or historical figure. 

• How-to Guide: Sway is great for showing process--have students demonstrate the steps needed to solve a problem or way of doing something 

• Digital Scrapbook: Get to know your students and have them create an interactive digital scrapbook. 

• Portfolio: Allow students to design their own portfolio (writing, art, lab) and have them reflect on their progress throughout the year. 

• Digital Storytelling: Have students create their own children's book and have them read (and record) the book aloud!

Featured Lesson: English: Photo Response to Text

Lesson Description: This lesson aims to hone students’ skills of reading, analyzing, and summarizing a text (short story, poem, novel, news article, etc.) Students are asked to read and evaluate a selected or an assigned piece, identify the author’s purpose and style, and then demonstrate knowledge of the text by summarizing the work through images and presenting analysis through image captions.

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