Project Plan

For my technology project, I would like to create a fairly specific website. If using this in a real classroom, I would have it as a link on my class website, but for this particular project, I will make it a site of it's own. This site will be the central point for a combination of Holiday activities. First of all, it will be a planning site for our Holiday party. I will have links to wiki's where parents can sign up for the area they would like to volunteer in for the class party (ie: decorations, snacks, etc), and wiki's where kids can sign up for areas they would like to help in as well (ie: set up, clean up, etc). During the party, of course there would be games, so I would have a few polls where kids could vote on which games they would most like to play or crafts they would like to make. I would incorporate the winning ideas into the party.

The second part of the Holiday activity would be a Holiday project for the kids. I would give them options on what they would like to do for their project, but let them know that the project must be uploaded onto the class website. So, they could create their own Christmas carol, record it, and post it to, or they could create a Holiday skit and make a video, or they could write about a Holiday memory they have, or write a Holiday poem. Each of these things would need to be uploaded onto the site. I would give the kids the option of working individually or in groups, but in a group there couldn't be any more than four children.

The final phase of the website would come in during the Holiday party. The parents and kids would have all completed the tasks they agreed to do on the wiki's and we would have played our games and made our crafts, but the party's finale would be showing and/or playing each of the kids' Holiday projects they had posted. In this way, the kids can see what the other students were able to accomplish, and the parents would be super impressed with their children's learning.