Science Technology Presentation by Gabrielle

Our Technology--Paper.li

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For our lesson, students will learn about the path of the sun across the sky by measuring their shadows three times throughout the day for five consecutive days.

Paper.li and Twitter

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Paper: The Sunny Shadow Daily

Twitter: SciClass316

Advantages of Paper.li

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- Access to numerous articles, blog posts, & various media content; specify what content you would like to receive

- Supports sources from Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, and RSS feeds

- Ability to schedule updates; you can decide the frequency and time of day you want content delivered

- Subscribe to other papers and receive email notifications when something is published

- Options to "blacklist" (block) individual sites or unwanted users appearing on the page (provides a way to avoid unsafe content)

Disadvantages of Paper.li

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- In order to enable private settings and make collaborative papers you need to upgrade to the Pro version ($9 a month)

- Only one person can update account at a time (everyone needs to have their own account)

- Need to carefully word your search otherwise no content is available

- Students need to have Twitter accounts and know how to post updates

- Difficult to navigate

Objective

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Following an experiment in which students record their shadow length and position of the sun at three different times throughout the day for four consecutive days, students will graph their data and write a brief summary of their results. Students will use the class Paper.li newspaper to publish their findings and explore why their shadow length measurements changed throughout the day over the course of the week.

How can we use Paper.li in the classroom?

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- Create a class Twitter account

- Students can gather info to share with the class or in small groups

- Can share students' own writing by publishing the link on social media sites (can also share links to images, recordings, or videos they have created)

- Dated archives store previous papers

- Create newspapers aligned to unit of study

- Helps students meet digital literacy objectives (collaboratively sharing, synthesizing, and creating information and multimedia texts through multiple streams of information)

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Resources

Standard

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5-ESS1-2. Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky.

http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com

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www.literacyshoptalk.com

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theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com

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