Before sharing the winners, let me explain the contest. A couple of weeks ago, I showed the pictures in this slideshow to my seventh graders:
As I showed each picture on the ActivBoard, they were to write down one or two captions they felt went with the photograph. After they'd written their captions for the first picture, I asked for a few volunteers to share theirs. I wanted to make sure that everyone was clear on the assignment; I know examples always help me understand a task much better.
Their homework that evening was to add all of their captions into a Google Form that I had created for them. I waited a few days, and then I chose what I felt were the top five responses for each photo. That's when my wonderful PLN joined in. I created this Google Form and sent it out to the world via Twitter, Facebook, and Plurk.
As the votes came in, I took the location of each respondent and placed it into this Google Map:
View Photo Captions Contest in a larger map
I loved adding the pins and seeing where people were voting from! I just hope my students enjoyed it half as much as I did.
I use Google Forms frequently throughout the school year, and one of the things I love the most is the option for a summary response. So rather than going through all of the data from the spreadsheet that looks like this:
So, speaking of the winners, I've revised the first Google Presentation to show the winning captions. Thank you, again, to all who have voted!
3 comments:
Karen,
I loved being invited to vote in your contest. Your students gave such fun, creative responses that some were hard to choose between! Your students are so fortunate to have you as their teacher :-)
Joan ( another Twitter McFriend ;-) )
AWESOME! Loved that you shared the process with the rest of us. I hope your students had as much fun with this as you did!
So....when can we expect the next photo caption contest?
Hi, Karen!
Nice site. Keep on doing the good job!
Your friend, in Brazil,
Teacher Julio Cesar!
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