At the end of each school year we save the posts from the prior class, creating a kind of yearbook and a reference that allows students and families to look back over prior years.
Author Archives: Old Town Academy
*Music* Category
Music posts go here...
GarageBand recordings, Performance Videos, Music History Timelines;
Song Lyrics, music, or arrangements;
Combined Science-Math-Music Projects (Coke Bottle/Wine Glass orchestra; Build your own guitar, etc.)
*Science* Category
Science posts go here…
Lab Projects (photos, diagrams, slideshows, & videos of your completed Projects or Project Exams);
Theory Slideshows and Animated Simulations (Use Keynote to make animations!): Explanations of: How Human’s Hear, How Speaker’s Work, etc;
Science Posters (scan or create digitally);
Combined Science-History Projects (e.g., Inventions Timeline; e.g. History of The: Automobile, Cell Phone, etc.); Combined Science-Math Projects (SONAR math challenges, etc.).
*Math* Category
Math posts go here…
Book of Real Problem Problems (Create your own illustrated math tutorial in Pages or Keynote or with Show Me);
Completed Math Progress Trackers (Saxon, Computer TargetScores, TAPS);
Combined Math-Language Arts Projects (Math Poems or Songs, etc.); Combined Math-Science Projects (SONAR Math Challenges, etc.)
*Language Arts* Category
Language Arts posts go here…
Essays, Narratives, Poems, Speeches, Recitations (videos or recordings), Grammar Projects, Foreign Language Study, etc.
Combined Language Arts-Math Projects (Math poems or songs); Combined Language-Arts History Projects (Biographical Narrative, Poltical Speech, etc.)
*Seminar* Category
Seminar posts go here….
5Ws Charts (Who wrote/painted/composed the reading/artwork/musical piece? What was the title/genre? Where & When was it created? Why was it created? Identify two crucial sentences, elements, or melodies);
Combined History-Seminar Projects (Timelines: Great Ideas, Great Authors; Essays, Mock-Trial Readings: Fact Patterns, MindMap of Foundation Documents: Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, etc.).
*Art* Category
Studio-Art History posts go here…
Paintings, drawings, sculptures (scan or photograph);
Art history Slide shows & timelines; Combined Art-History Projects (Timeline linking art genres with political and religious events, etc.)
Digital art, animation (illustrator, keynote, etc.).
*History* Category
History, Geography, and Civics/Mock Trial posts go here…
Real-World History (research and write your own history); Biographies;
History Timelines; Great Cities-Great Ideas: Maps, Models of Cities/Buildings (SketchUp), MindMaps (Inspiration) of Ideas That Last.
Combined History-Science Projects (Great Inventions Diagrams/Reports, Interviews: Effect of Technology on 3 Generations, History of San Diego, etc.),
Mock Trial Presentations (video or text): Opening Statement, Cross Examination Closing Statement, etc.
*Outdoor Ed* Category
Nature Treks, Sports, Strength & Conditioning, Health & Nutrition posts go here….
Nature Photography (identify & classify by species and habitat), Camping Slideshows and Tutorials (how to choose a campsite, how to start a cooking fire, how to recognize poison oak, etc.); Maps & MindMaps of San Diego Eco-terrains.
Sports Videos: game film, tutorials (create a video or slideshow): “How to throw a spiral”; “How to bend it like Beckham,” “How to set a volleyball,” etc.)
Personal Records: Running Times, Push-Ups, Pull-Ups, etc.; Sports Skills Checklists: Football, Volleyball, Soccer, Basketball, etc.
Favorite Recipes, Posters (Food Pyramids, Drug Awareness, etc.)
Intro and Guidelines for Student Web Logs (Blogs)
Dear OTA Student:
Your personal Learning Journal is designed to help you create a record of your quality work (and your growth over a year) in the 8 OTA Core Learning Strands— Music, Science, Math, Seminar, English, Art, History, & Outdoor Ed.
The Categories available in the sidebar are set to match those 8 Strands and you should mark every post with one or more of those categories.
Why Create An Online Learning Journal?
- Blogs are very powerful content-management systems: which means they allow you to create a beautiful, multimedia record of a year’s worth of work and retrieve it instantly when you need it (by just clicking on the category of posts you want to see or by using the SEARCH Box to find all posts with the word “music” or “football” etc.)— but only if you use the Categories! Continue reading