Using Haiku Deck To Teach Each Other About Pioneers

With a partner or a small group, students chose a topic about what life was like for pioneers making their way to Canada. Students used the research in the classroom to help look for important ideas. They recorded the main points as jot notes onto paper.

They then used an organizer to come up with two statements (a title and a subtitle), that could summarize each important idea. They could create as many of these as they felt necessary.

Students then, searched the internal web of Haiku Deck, using search words related to their topics in order to come up with relavant pictures to match their slides.  They assembled their slideshows on Haiku Deck with ease.

Haiku Deck is a free app, that allows students to summarize their thinking and make simple presentations using beautiful royalty free images. It's a great presentation tool, that is extremely easy to use, and introduces students to creating 'to-the-point' presentations.

Students then practised presenting their information, making sure to expand on the information in the slide, and to not just read what's on the screen (a pet peeve of mine during presentations).

After many rehearsals, students presented their polished Haiku Deck's to the class.

Matthew and Nirupam's 
Http://www.haikudeck.com/p/GZMx279RDu

Aalam and Ruhani
Http://www.haikudeck.com/p/iJGag28fJq

Aaron and Jessica
Http://Www.haikudeck.com/p/fs3jiW7YK4

Mahwish, Asmiga and Jujhar
Http://www.haikudeck.com/p/pQTL57RgbG

Harshit and victor
Http://www.haikudeck.com/p/M3hSendtq9

Fatiha and Josephine
Http://www.haikudeck.com/p/HyVOJI7qBV

Areeba and Harini
Http://www.haikudeck.com/p/ZPayqG1b2R

Muskaan, Arshdeep, and Harani
Http://www.haikudeck.com/p/gYTZoenktn