The Colour Poem Global Twitter Project #1 (Week 1): RED poems with Grade 1

I met Linda Yollis at the New York Google Teacher Academy – and since I had been a great fan of her blog up till then meeting her in person was a great highlight! When I noticed recently that she had started a Colour poem Global Twitter project I was very keen to join http://goo.gl/YtbFkg.

The goal of the project
The object of this collaborative project is to share original poems, create colourful digital images, and publish through classroom Twitter accounts using the hashtag #clrpoem! Each week a colour of the visible spectrum will be showcased! We’ll be following the colour spectrum ROY G BIV (red-orange-yellow-green-blue-*indigo-violet) 

Step 1: Create a class Twitter account
I set this up, after much thought as @ICTclasstweets:

Step 2: Get busy with Week 1 of the project
Mrs Yollis’ instructions: “This week, we are seeing RED! Shoot a photo of something red, compose a little poetry to complement the photo, and tweet it out! Remember, use the hashtag #clrpoem”. I thought I would involve my Grade 1, Grade 2 and Grade 3 students in this project.

Step 3: Take a look at the hashtag #clrpoem
The Grade 1s and 2s loved looking through this hashtag and reading the tweets about red poems.

Step 4: Get started with Red Poems from Grade 1
I thought we would start with Grade 1 doing the colour RED. We did our poems during ICT class using Microsoft Paint. It worked really well as we were able to save these as JPEGs immediately.


I thought I would tweet Mika’s using the #clrpoem hashtag!

Evaluation
This was quite a mission with Grade 1s! We did this in steps:

• We read other people's poems first on the  #clrpoem hashtag and discussed the images.  
• We learned how to open Google Images using Chrome and we searched for red items. They pasted their image into Paint.
• We used the Text option and started writing. I walked around helping them to spell words.
• We saved the work.
• We got finished! (I wondered if we would)