Sorry that I’ve been absent for a bit! It was the first week of school this week, and as I’m starting the year with a new grade level, it was a bit of work! But, I’ve been planning some cool stuff!
If anyone’s interested in education and stuff, I’ve decided that my classes will be reading The Hunger Games this semester for our class novel. Then…this is the cool part…since my class will have IPads, and there’s a cool Facebook-style education app called EdModo…I’m going to turn my class into a Role-Playing Game! We’re going to be playing the Hunger Games in my class! It will be part creative-writing assignment and part motivational tool. Each student will be “reaped” with some ending up as one of the 24 tributes, and the rest will be in the Capitol designing and running the “Games”. It’s going to be awesome as each of the students competes against each other for XP (which can be earned via post-writing, grades, citizenship, participation, and creativity) and to be the last surviving tribute. Tributes will “die” via Capitol vote. And each student will have to write a weekly post–either describing their week as a tribute in the arena, or as a reporter summarizing the previous week’s events in the arena. It’s going to be SO COOL!
So, that’s what I’ve been up to, along with planning curriculum and stuff.
Hopefully, this weekend I’ll have time to read and write, and the upcoming week will be easier. In the meantime, I hope everyone’s doing well, and I’ll be back soon!
sj
This sounds like so much fun!
One of my fb friends teaches jr high (he was a witness at our Vegas wedding), and he was just talking about EdModo earlier this week!
borkadventures
Yes! I’ve been watching a lot of webinars on it, and it sounds amazing! I can upload all of my curriculum and students dig it so much that they check it on their phones and iPods (there’s an app). It is freaking awesome! Think of all the cool interaction that could come out of this!
Btw–I didn’t know you had a Vegas wedding. Did I tell you that Jesse and I eloped in Reno? My picture here (Stephen King Rules) is my wedding photo outside of the lil chapel! : )
sj
You did! Well, I think you did. I remember the part about the shirt, but not about Reno!
Yes, we drove to Vegas on Hallowe’en and got hitched before hanging out at the Phish show at UNLV.
Heather
You eloped in Reno?! So did my parents! Haha! They always joked about how they got married in the divorce capital of the country. That’s awesome. We even had a dog named Reno because of it.
greengeekgirl
This assignment is the coolest.
borkadventures
YES! I think so too!
Tony Bird
Please, please mark them down if they write in first person point of view with present tense. I don’t know why, but that combination makes me want to punch babies. Cute ones.
Nerija S.
Sounds like an awesome project! Man, these whippersnappers have so many interesting new educational apps and such. In my day, we just had the Internet! XD
borkadventures
I know, right?!
RebeccaScaglione
What a fun assignment! It’s great that the students will have a big say in what happens! And it will encourage those who haven’t yet read the series to read The Hunger Games! Super cool!
borkadventures
I’m pretty excited about it! I think they’ll love it.