Well, I've said I work with the best students and teachers around. Today I have proof. Katie Nissen, our tech integrationist, and I collaborated on a vocabulary strategy as part of my ILP (Individual Learning Plan) focusing on vocabulary. College Comp students worked with partners to illustrate one of our weekly SAT-level vocab words in a 15-second video. I gave the word choices, Katie provided the technology, and the students were set loose. Their videos were submitted to the New York Times Learning Network and Vocabulary.com 2nd Annual Vocabulary Contest. You can see all of their videos here. Today we learned the winners of the contest, and while they were no monetary prizes, this teacher's heart is overflowing with pride for my hard-working, creative students. Keep in mind, this was a nationwide contest with over 500 submissions! Megan, Brenna, and Emily were in the top 10 with their video for the word "malleable." If that wasn't enough, three of the ten honorable mention videos were OUR STUDENTS ("verbose" by Jake and Mallory, "putrid" by Austin and Hannah, and "luxuriate" by Krystal, Kaycee, and Alexis).
I think a celebratory party is in order!
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Allison
12/3/2014 11:55:17 am
I'm so impressed! I know the freshman teacher in our building had her kids enter some words in this (or something similar?) through the NYT. Awesome! Brag on, brag on!
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