MUSEUM BOXES
A Museum Box is a fun, creating ‘display item’ for students to present the different elements of a book by placing items in a virtual ‘box’ based on a ‘layering system’. It can integrate text files, video clips, audio, text, powerpoint presentations and external links. This project can be both individual or a collaborative task, with students working on different aspects of a book report and applying them to the different sides of a cube. Students can also view and comment on the others students’ museum boxes.
SAMPLES
DON'T FRET IF THE LINK LEADS TO A BLACK PAGE - GIVE IT A COUPLE OF MOMENTS TO START LOADING
1-cube box on a conflict in Harry Potter: http://museumbox.e2bn.org/creator/viewer/show/18417
* You could have students in one class work in teams to create many boxes, each a different conflict or story element to explore.
Multiple-drawer box for The Giver: http://museumbox.e2bn.org/creator/viewer/show/2369
* This one has images only on the drawer, of key scenes from the book (see description)
* Students can work in groups to then expand on these key scenes, filling in with analysis/quotes/summary/response, etc.
Multiple-drawer "genre box": http://museumbox.e2bn.org/creator/viewer/show/12059
* A good overview and/or vocab review for key terms and concepts related to "genre"
A project I'm doing (but as I haven't "submitted" the box yet, it's not viewable) with G7 students for Two Weeks with the Queen:
* I've set up an 8-drawer box, each labelled with a specific theme or element from the story. I am going to have the students brainstorm another tier or two - ultimately, I'd like teams of 2-3 in charge of one drawer/topic.
(Example: setting Australia - setting London - "The Queen" - Leukemia - HIV/AIDS - Siblings - Overprotective Parents - Good Doctors/Bad Doctors - Patient Experience - etc)
* Students will then work to "create" their boxes, adding images, quotes, some summarized research, etc. We will then submit it, once our school has been "approved."
GENERAL PLANNER
a) Decide if you want to make a general box, or get your school approved. The approval process could take a week or more.
(A general box is trickier to fiind; students MUST remember username/password in order to retrieve it. For a school that's been approved, it's easier to track your students' work.)
b) Create your base box (sign up, login, etc.) This is all done from the "ABOUT" page - links are below the video.
c) Decide your topics (drawers) - set these up and label the drawers.
d) Collect your items for each drawer (images, videos, documents, etc). These must all be UPLOADED before you can access them for the box.
e) Assemble your drawers.
f) Preview your completed museumbox.
g) Submit - I am not certain if you can retrieve and edit once the box has been "submitted." I DO know that this somehow alerts the teacher under whom the box creator is registered to get some kind of message or link to the box.
LINKS
http://museumbox.e2bn.org/
**Disclaimer: Where possible examples of our student work have been included and reasonable attempts to contact the creators of the presentations and documents included here have been made, for permission, when items have not been made available to the public at large. This wiki is a collaborative synthesis of available resources for educational purposes.**
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