Jessica,
You have a great selection of journals. The Language Learning and Technology would be
a great fit especially if this is your target audience. If you review recent issues they have several
classroom studies on being “Caught in the Web” or Interactive Whiteboards. I see they are calling for manuscripts for
the Special issue on Game & Play Activity in Technology. Is this the issue you are aiming for? I know you have worked with Story Jumper in
the past classes… Have you continued using it in your final project? I was always interested in the success of
Story Jumper with a young target audience.
I used it with my middle school audience as a reward. They ended up using it to create stories for
the younger grades. It was a great
success and the students really felt like they were helping the younger
ones. They even began taking story
requests. Your audience was first grade,
correct? I would think the increased
engagement of technology would really assist second language learners with the
writing process. Did you notice any
difference in story development in Story Jumper between second language
learners and native speakers?
Original Post: Jessica Isla
Week 3: Blog Post #2 - Leadership post: Leadership Project Hub
The purpose of my action research is to create a technology rich
environment full of creative lessons that will consistently capture student
attention and increase motivation levels within a learning environment. I have done some research about where I would
like my article published and I have narrowed it down to two online journal:
Language Learning & Technology and The Reading Teacher. I like both of these journals for different
reasons, but my first choice would probably be the first journal, Language
Learning & Technology, because I teach students who are English learners
(learners of a second language). This
journal would be perfect for my article.
Not only can I tell my story, but I can tell it to an audience that has
the same interest and same type of students that I have. It's important to be able to reach and impact
these types of students because (and this is solely based on my own classroom
experiences) these are the students who struggle with maintaining motivation
and learning academic content on a daily basis.
Here are the two URL links to my previous Leadership Blog posts:
Here is the URL link for my Leadership Document:
Original Post Source: http://jessica-isla.blogspot.com/2012/06/week-3-blog-post-2-leadership-post.html
Storyjumper - http://www.storyjumper.com/book/create
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