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=**Teaching Vocabulary with Technology**=

**Inquiry Question:**
How can we create cross-cultural language connections that allows students to demonstrate their understanding of vocabulary?

Given a list of words of words, the students will collaborate and explore a multi-modal understanding the author's use of the vocabulary in context and thematically.
 * Objective:**

**Massachusetts ELA Standards:**
**Standard 4: Vocabulary and Concept Developme**nt Students will understand and acquire new vocabulary and use it correctly in reading and writing

**Standard 15: Style and Language** Students will identify and analyze how an author’s words appeal to the senses, create imagery, suggest mood, and set tone, and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.

Instead of being assigned the same list of words to define and/or write sentences, each student will be assigned two or three words and will be asked to create a Glog that explores the words' meanings through images, video, and sound demonstrating things like synonyms, antonyms, what the word is and what the word is not, pronunciation guides, texts that add cultural and/or nuanced meanings to the vocabulary. Each student will present their Glog to their peers, and their peers will provide comments and evaluate the effectiveness of the Glog in creating meaning. Deeper learning occurs through the use of a variety of output options that engage the multiple intelligences.
 * Overview**:

After the students present their words, the vocabulary is placed back into context where students can re-evaluate the connotative meanings they perhaps missed on their first exposure to the word.

**TPaCK Connections:**
The more senses that are involved in learning, the more neurons fire in the brain. These multi-modal connections help transport learning from short-term memory to long-term memory--the goal of all vocabulary instruction. In having students created Glogs that include audio, video and images, then presenting these Glogs to an authentic audience of their peers, students are more invested and more engaged in the learning process. With a collaborative vocabulary list, differentiation is easy as words with a literal meaning could be assigned to lower-level learners or ELL Level I students, while more complex or abstract words could be assigned to those students working above grade level. The Glogster.com/edu output provides opportunities for students to demonstrate knowledge through oral (voice recording), video (physically acting out the word, or embedding "found" video), visual (graphic representations of the word or images associated with the word) and text that relates to the word and its connotations and appropriate usage. Content: ** //House on Mango Street// vocabulary
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One day: Direct teaching as needed to explain the technology tools and allow for constructive "play." Teacher directs the students in creating a collaborative rubric for their final product. One - Two day(s): Student-directed exploring, learning and creating. 20 min/day as book progresses: Student-to-student teaching of vocabulary words, commenting, evaluating and re-inserting into text. 30 min at end of week/chapter/book: Students have time to comment on each other's Glogs and reflect on what worked well for each Glog.
 * Pedagogy/Timeline: **

Using Glogster.com/edu to display understanding of vocabulary words
 * Technology Concepts: **

Learn how to critically look and choose images online Use images to drive better, more creative sentences and drive broader understanding of language

Practice creating documents for authentic audiences.

Practice demonstrating knowledge via visual and oral presentation with presentation software.

Choice of presentation output using glogster or google doc slide deck Teacher assignment of vocabulary words based on reading level Formatted glogster template if needed to facilitate initiation of task Access to flip camera and audio recorder for other media output options
 * Differentiation:**


 * Examples:

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