What we Believe

In English we have been looking at what makes writing and words powerful. For writing and words to be powerful or have an impact on the way others think, we need to link them to what we believe and have a hope for.

The students were asked to write about things that they believed in. They were asked what they thought would change the world. There were many different ideas, that each student came up with. Some ideas were for flying cars or hovering houses, others were for people to be kind to one another. We certainly need to have a hope for the future and it is encouraging to see so many creative and thoughtful ideas.

The students then had to turn their writing into a digital publication. We chose pictures that would match the words that they had written. We discussed how images help our our words to have a greater impact.

Matching Images To Words - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

After finding images that went with their writing, each student then turned their writing into a digital speech. We used the Tellagami app which the students used to be an avatar for their speech. The images were used as a background for the speech. The students made a few different Tellagami's with different speeches. These were saved to the Camera Roll in the iPad. We then used the iMovie app to put all of the Tellagami's together to create one video.

Please watch some of our students work. The results look fantastic!

Grace's Speech

Rebekah's Speech

What did you enjoy the most about this activity? What is something that you believe strongly in? Do you have a hope and a dream for the future?