Unfortunately, that was the best of what came from Vocaroo. Here’s Benjamin and Sean with their podcast interview: Hit the record button, and when you are done recording, hit the download link, and save it as a mp3 (or other file type of your choice). (They used it as one of their “Picks of the Week.”) It seemed easy enough. I had shared this with my friends at the WELSTech Podcast as a tool one could possibly use in the classroom for podcasting. So, I planned to use a site called Vocaroo. I have successfully video chatted with others, so I knew it worked well enough. I knew the Chromebooks had a built-in microphone, but I wasn’t sure as to its quality.
Then it came to the point where we needed to record. They typed up their final questions and answers in Google Docs and shared them. They wrote drafts and edited them, they took things out and put better things back in. The kids took up the challenge, and with their partners, they scoured the book for examples of Brian’s thoughts and feelings. (By the way, I believe this project fully covers at least the first six literacy standards in the Common Core for 6th grade.) They were to come up with ways to show how Brian had changed over the course of the book, including citing specific statements from the text supporting their thoughts.
#Epic books hatchet series
I came up with a plan for the students to create a series of interview questions, as if they were a journalist interviewing the main character, Brian Robeson. In my quest for 1:1 Chromebook pilot nirvana, I wanted to make sure these kids had an epic in scope, creative, collaborative project to do at the end of the book. I knew this book was going to grab my readers, as it has done for decades. In the second quarter, my 6th grade students devoured Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. This is one of those “fails miserably” stories. There are other days where you attempt to try something new, and it fails miserably. There are some days where being an innovator is really cool.
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