Continue the NaNo-fun!
NaNoWriMo might end on November 30, but there are lots of ways we can reinforce writing and narrative concepts, plus weave in a wide variety of artistic, technology, and media literacy skills with NaNo-related projects:
- create book trailers: iMovie, Google Slides and Prezi make it easy (and fun) for students to make movie-style trailers for their novels. Here are some of ours:
Silent Night, by Lily (with iMovie):
The Book of Parapraxi, by Jessica, (with SpicyNodes):
The Eve Before Christmas Eve, by Shannon (with Google Slides):
Racecar, by Satvika (with Prezi):
- design book covers: we like Google Drawing for designing our book covers, but there are lots of different programs you could use, like Word, Pages, Canva, Paper53, or PicCollage:
- create games: students can design board games based on their novels, or, with programs like Scratch and Alice, students can design and code computer games based on their stories. (See here for details of how my students learned to code and then designed their own games.) Click on the images below to play some of my students' NaNo-inspired games:
- share their NaNoWriMo experiences via graphics: we love Google Drawing because students are in control of the entire design, but other programs, like Adobe Spark and Canva, make graphics simple and beautiful.
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