MuseumBox

Museum Box Claimed by: Vanessa Engel

This is a really fantastic Web 2.0 Tool that can be implemented in many different classes, let alone language arts. Students can create their own museum box for a project on books, events in history, inventions, and nearly anything one could imagine. Teachers can use this tool as a visually stimulating way to present information to students. Sounds, images, text, and video can be used to create more flash and dash. This tool can also be used as a sort of jigsaw project where students can collect sounds, images, and video to help describe a book that they have read for class.

I created a Museum Box about William Shakespeare's play, //A Midsummer Night's Dream//. I just dealt with some of the basics of the story, but the great thing is that if I want to go into more detail, I can add more "drawers" to expand my presentation.

To view, kindly click on the link above. Click on Start at the right side of the page. It should take you to a blank Museum Box. Above the box, click the tab that says "Load". Once you click that, it will ask for my screen name and password. My screenname is vengel and password in angel999. The name of the project is Updated "A Midsummer Night's Dream" A Fairy Tale by William Shakespeare. Thank you very much and I hope you enjoy this Web 2.0 tool.

Vanessa, I really liked how you linked the pictures of Shakespeare's birthplace and the Globe theater to the museum box. I really like this tool, students can be creative with what they include in their projects. It something that could be done quickly or built upon as the year goes on. Great tool! ~erin o