Thursday, August 11, 2016

"The Great Monster Exchange"

Last year the 6th-Grade students participated in a project called "The Great Monster Exchange." This project was inspired by the work of the creators of  the monsterexchange.org.  In the past this was where one school would send directions to another school to try to make a drawing that matched the original and vice versa.  I changed it up by using Google Drawing and Google Docs.  Each student either hand drew their monster or used the Google Drawing tools to complete the task.  If they hand drew the monster, they inserted a picture of it by clicking on insert in Google Draw and then taking a snapshot of their drawing.  Next, they inserted a textbox below that saying it was the original.  Then in Google Docs they wrote detailed instructions on how they created their monster, and they shared their directions with a student from another class period.  The person that received the directions then did their best to make a copy of the original drawing without ever having seen the original.  When they were finished with their drawing they shared their drawing with the original artist with a view only share setting.  I didn't want changes made after the fact.  The original artist then inserted the copied drawing next to their original with the directions they sent below the drawings. Student comments such as, "I guess I should have been written more clearly with my directions," was common.
Here are the directions I gave the students in Classroom Google:

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