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__**Description of Flat Stanley Adventure Collaborative Project:**__ The Flat Stanley Adventure Collaborative Project was inspired by a children’s book where a student, Flat Stanley, gets flattened by a bulletin board and learns to enjoy his “flatness” by traveling the world easily due to his new size. AS a class, we each had to take Flat Stanley on an adventure over the weekend. To document our adventure, we took pictures with and of Flat Stanley. To practice working with digital images we were then to edit these pictures in order to make them size appropriate for the web and quality pictures by cropping. Once the pictures were edited, they were to be posted on the class wiki along with photo captions. I chose to make a video of Flat Stanley’s visit with my pet dog, which was posted along with the required audio explanation of the adventure. Once we all posted our individual adventures, we got to look at the collect of adventures Flat Stanley had with our EDT6010 class all in one week.

EDT6010 Flat Stanley Wiki My Flat Stanley Adventure

__**Reflection:**__ At first, I was skeptical about this project; I was unsure how this project could be used with the level of students that I teach. As I began to plan my Flat Stanley Adventure, I got excited because I took him along through my move into my new house. I wanted to share my weekend with others and got to through these pictures with Flat Stanley. As I begun taking pictures, I continued to get increasingly more excited. I wanted the pictures to be great and wasn’t happy with the first shot. I found myself very aware of the pictures I was taking, when normally a picture is a quick snap shot of something I want to remember, and editing the same picture over and over in order to get it just right. I found myself enjoying the activity and laughing aloud while writing the captions that went along with the pictures. When my project was complete, I was inspired to do it again! I then put together a Christmas Flat Stanley Adventure for my fifth graders to do over break. I feel that even though this lesson is usually appropriate for primary grades, I feel that the students can learn a lot from it. The students will do two phases of the project. They will take a picture or two with Flat Stanley showing how they celebrated the holidays. They will write a descriptive paragraph on both pictures. When they return from break, before we share them, the students will switch with a partner to have them write what they think should be the descriptive caption. It will show them that pictures can be interpreted differently from one person to another as well as provide them self-guided descriptive writing. I am looking forward to seeing the results!