Jessica Rapisarda

Across the Curriculum

The Student Pitch Project

The Student Pitch Project is an in-class activity that was born out of desperation but that became a wild success. The gist of the activity? Allow students to define and schedule projects themselves. Giving students agency encourages a deeper understanding of and connection to their work.

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Essay

Convocations

Some of those students will graduate today. No sports stadium ceremony. No balloons or handshakes. Instead, this year, they will be celebrated in a Google slide show.

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Assignments

Blog, Blog, Essay!

Assign weekly or bi-weekly blog entries. Allow the student to “become an expert” by regularly writing about a subject.

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Assignments

Website Critique & Response

This is a two-part assignment, described as it might be used in three different subjects. The assignment requires that students “trade” websites.

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Across the Curriculum

An Introduction to e-Portfolios

Perhaps you’ve used a traditional portfolio in your classrooms, and you’d like to explore ways to change up the routine. Some of you have not,

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Across the Curriculum

Student Websites: Why and How

It’s common knowledge that students learn by doing. The use of websites allows students to put what is taught in the classroom into practice.

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Across the Curriculum

Welcome!

Starting is scary. Ah, the unparalleled terror of a blank page.

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