Online Projects, Collaboration Sites and Publishing Opportunities

Lesson Idea Name: Choose Your Own Adventure!

Content Area: ELA
Grade Level(s): 3rd grade
Content Standard Addressed: ELAGSE3W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined
experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. a.
Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that
unfolds naturally. b. Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop
experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations. c. Use temporal words and
phrases to signal event order. d. Provide a sense of closure

Technology Standard Addressed: ISTE Standard 1

Selected Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity: Inkle

URL(s) to support the lesson: https://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/education/

Describe how you would incorporate an Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing

Opportunity in your classroom:
The entire class will contribute to a class narrative. Students will each write a paragraph in a choose
your own adventure story. Inkle.com guides students in a step by step format through the website.
Students can add pictures and videos. This makes the narrative interactive.
After everyone contributes, students can go through the interactive narrative. The students can go
through it many times because the story changes when the choices change. When the students are
happy with the final project, they can publish it to the website. Parents, families, teachers, and
students will all have access to it.

What technologies would be required to implement this proposed learning activity in a

classroom? Students will need computers or tablets.

Describe how the following features are addressed in this learning experience (note: all of them
may not be addressed in the project, but most should be if you are reaching a high LoTi Level).
a. Collaboration with peers, near-peers, mentors outside their classroom and often beyond
their school: Students will collaborate with their peers to create the story through the website
at school and at home.

b. Student-centered learning and knowledge creation (creating original data and or

producing original products as a result of engaging in a project): Students are writing
original narratives with interactive features. This meets the standard of “write narratives to
develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details,
and clear event sequences”.
c. Higher-order thinking: Students will have think creatively when choosing the different
elements because choice effects the interactive narrative.

d. Students publishing their original work to others who will use/care about their product:
Students will publish their narrative for families and peers to read.

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Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):

☒ Remembering ☒ Understanding ☒ Applying ☒ Analyzing ☒ Evaluating ☒

Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

☒ Level 1: Awareness ☒ Level 2: Exploration ☒ Level 3: Infusion ☒ Level 4:

Integration

☒ Level 5: Expansion ☒ Level 6: Refinement

Universal Design for Learning (UDL): I would give my students choices by allowing them to pick
which technology they would like to use. They could use a tablet or a desktop computer or a laptop.
Also, they could have the option to work alone, with a partner, or in a group.

Lesson idea implementation and Internet Safety Policies: This lesson will be implemented safely
by gaining permission from parents and only using student’s first names.

Reflective Practice: I think this lesson would work great! To improve it, I would add an element of
prewriting to it. Perhaps, students could use a graphic organizer. Also, I would have students work in
small groups or in pairs to have more stories to interact with after our class narrative.

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