Witches Final Presentations

Our reading group was busy presenting and reviewing potions, jeopardy games, and virtual stories today in class. I decided to do "science fair" style presentations to give each student the chance to share his or her presentation for several classmates, but then walk around the room and hear/discuss the presentations of several other students. With the variety of presentations and different processes, I hoped that this would allow for more dialogue and interaction, instead of the more formal presentation that we have done in class previously.

Following the presentations, I asked for student feedback and was impressed, as always. A few of their suggestions will definitely be on the plan book (or at least the discussion board) for next year:

• Have two different presentation days so that everyone has the chance to walk around and see everyone's presentation.
• Have another option for a final presentation based on the main character's next adventure battling witches.
• Since storypatch (an iPad application) can only be used at school (the stories created are stored on the school's iPad), allow a student to bring in his smart device (BYOD) so that he can use it at home for homework as well if needed.

This was definitely one of my favorite reading projects of the year: student directed, student planned, student presented, and student reviewed. It seems that these students are really ready for Tenth Age!