Flat+Stanley

Flat Stanley for EDT 6010 Instead of creating one Flat Stanley in particular, I decided to take Flat Stanley to Stephen Decatur in many forms. Moreover, I allowed my students to create a Flat Stanley of their choice. My students had to be cautious about what they drew Flat Stanley doing, holding and saying because they would need to be able to describe it in Spanish.

Since taking Flat Stanley to high school simply to color was elementary, I knew I had to put higher standards on the process. Therefore, I created a brief description of the project to give my students. Before they could create Flat Stanley, they needed to write a biography in Spanish about this character. If they couldn’t express that idea in Spanish, they were not allowed to draw it on Flat Stanley. As one can see from the pictures, my students had already learned pastimes vocabulary. Flat played numerous sports and participated in a lot of activities at Stephen Decatur.

Flat Stanley turned out to be an excellent medium for prompting my students to be creative. They had to evaluate what they were able to express in Spanish and assess whether they could include that idea in their Flat Stanley or not. This will definitely be an annual activity I do in Spanish I.

Taking Flat Stanley to different places turnout to be an eye opener. When I was introducing him to my students, about half of my students had heard of him before or had worked with him. I knew that this phenomenon was because of the power of technology. He is transferred via the internet and if half of my students knew about him, he must be pretty popular. What if my instruction and the oncepts I introduced had this effect on students? I feel that this project showed me how powerpoint publicising things online can really be and how I need to take my work to the cyber level.