Friday, 28 March 2014
Assessing Our Writing Part 2
3:20 pm
Students have finally finished recording their slides in the Explain Everything App. I've shared the overall lesson here. I am very impressed with their ability to pick out favourite lines and explain their significance. They are truly thinking of their reader and they are thinking critically about their own writing.
Here is a sample of one group's script (see below). The script was just to help them with transitions and give them a structure before recording their voices.
Below are two examples of our Explain Everything projects:
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