A Brainstorm

 Final Project Brainstorm! 

I believe that students learn best when... they have true social connections with their classmates to create a safe, authentic, valued learning environment. 


  • I believe that students learn best when they have real connections to their classmates and to their learning.
  • I believe that in order for these connections to be real students identity must be fully represented in and by their learning 
  • I believe that students learn best when they have conversations. 


The Idea! 

I want to create a culturally relevant deck of Morning Meeting Activity Cards that center my students, their identities/interests/voices/ideas and starts each day with conversations the build connections in my classroom. 


To Do List: 

  • Research Morning Meeting activities
  • Adopt them to represent my students 
  • Find a platform to design card deck on
  • design 10-20 morning meeting activity cards! 


What technologies could play a role in this project?

  • Canva: I have very little experience with Canva; however, I believe it is a platform for designing documents and presentations. I could use this as a platform to create my deck of morning meeting activity cards! 

  • Rethink Google Slides: While traditionally used to create presentations, I could use this technology that I am familiar with to, instead, create a deck of morning meeting activity cards. This might take form of one card per slide. The benefits to this would be using something I am familiar with in a new way, also slides is very flexible in formatting and would give me more flexibility than pages or a word doc. 



Comments

  1. AnonymousJuly 2, 2021 at 10:29 PM

    lmk if you need help with Canva, it is literally my favorite thing in the world. (When I'm bored I take pictures I have of friends and make them into magazine covers and send it to them lol)

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