(developed by Scott Johnston,
Riverside High)
1. Construct and maintain your
own web site, which features stories, poems and opinionative pieces
you have written. Seek feedback from visitors to your site (via
e-mail) which you use to edit your works. Keep a copy of all stages
and maintain a journal that is both descriptive and reflective.
2. Choose a topic likely to be
of use to other students (eg. an author, a text type, issue or theme).
Conduct a web search for sites relevant to your topic. Visit the
sites and write reviews of them. Publish as a pamphlet or poster
— A Guide to … on the WWW — for display in
the library. Maintain a descriptive and reflective journal.
3. Join a book discussion group
on the Web. Read a book at a suitable level of difficulty and participate
in the book chat. Have a look at the Oz-TeacherNet
Book Rap Calendar for a list of books being discussed this year.
Maintain a journal reflecting on the book read and on the discussion
group on the Web process.
4. For a negotiated study on any
topic, prepare a PowerPoint slideshow of your presentation to the
class. (You should have it viewable on a computer screen, but may
have to reproduce the slideshow as a series of overhead transparencies.)
Maintain a journal reflecting upon the process.
5. Research e-zines (electronic
magazines on the Web), reviewing several likely to be of interest
to your peers. Contribute a piece of your own writing, in an appropriate
genre, to a particular e-zine. You will find some examples in Useful
Links for Students.
OR
Construct your own e-zine seeking
contributions from other students and acting as Webmaster.
6. Study computer games. Use storyboards
as graphic organisers to plan an original computer game. Maintain
a journal detailing reflections and descriptions of the process
you undertake.
7. For your study you have researched
a particular English text (eg. author, text type…) and have
written an essay or feature story. Word process your writing, use
a scanner to add appropriate visual images and add hypertext links
to visual and print information.
(Hypertext is a means of linking
key words to supporting information on the WWW.)
8. Choose a short literary text,
eg. poem, short story, monologue, fable. Maintain a descriptive
and reflective journal as you undertake one of these activities.
- Tape record a voice and sounds interpretation
of the text to heighten themes, mood and/or socio-cultural
context of the text.
- Prepare a storyboard treatment (visual,
sound) of the text for video/film. Enlist the help of peers
to record.
- Assemble a collage (visuals and sounds)
using a scanner and audio sampling to record your response to
the text.
- Reconstruct the text as a song with appropriate
video clip. Inside Out produced by the ABC has programs
on both song writing and making video clips.
9. Choose a picture book to record
(visuals and sound) on videotape. Check out the DoE’s Media
Collection for Weston Woods videos of books to serve as models.
Storyboard and film. Show to an intended audience. Maintain a journal
and include audience feedback.
10. Survey workplaces to ascertain
the use of particular information technologies in conducting their
business. Write a report, perhaps incorporating tables and graphs,
on your findings, your predictions for the future of the workplace
and details of the skills needed by today’s workers.
11. Use fax or e-mail to interview
an expert in relation to the topic of your study.
12.
Use a computer to publish a collection of original poems, which
explore the use of font and layout.
