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Indigenized Slam Poetry

Memoir Trailers

April 18, 2018

Students used the ipads to make movie trailers for their memoirs. Below is an example!

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Thinking about our Final Report

April 17, 2018

In regards to reflecting on where we are at with our final report, Kelly and I have decided to put together a blog post and resource share out of our project. Our goal, is to organize all the resources we used and put them together in one folder that we can then share out on google. We have been spending lots of time reflecting about our project. As this is the first time we have done this, we have learned lots and have several things we would do differently next year! Our goal, in creating this document, is that others can use it to recreate something similar to our project. One issue we seem to be running into is that we made the project scope very large originally, a whole year of indigenizing the curriculum! So we are having troubles focusing the resources to our slam poetry! In other words, despite the fact that we did an origin stories unit, it isn't necessary to do in order to succeed with slam poetry. So we are trying to find a way we can separate the units and make ...

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December 12, 2017

At this point in our project, students are moving along with their worldview mind maps. Students have brainstormed the things that influence their lives the most. They are choosing five of those influences to put in their mind maps. Each of the influences have to have a visual that goes along with them. As mentioned in our last meeting, one of those images needs to have Coast Salish influences. We hit a bit of a snag with the technology. Students are using the ipads to create their Coast Salish visuals. We also wanted them to complete their mind maps online. We found a website that we wanted to use, however, the website does not have the ability to save and then re visit the mind map. We had to come up with a creative solution. The students were to draw up a rough copy or a plan before they are allowed to go onto the computer. This way, we could ensure that students would not lose work. We took it one step further and asked students to type up ...