Another Way I'm Using Loom

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I am loving Loom lately! I recently had my 8th graders, who are reading Cloelia, draw a number to choose from a pile of famous paintings, sculptures, and other depictions of the story of Lucretia in art. Each student took their painting and was given the following directions:

1. Analyze your picture. Look for connections to the Cloelia novella. Which sentences or phrases can you use from the text?
2. Write a Latin description of the image. Use at least three sentences from Cloelia in your writing.
3. Go to useloom.com to record a 1-minute video of yourself describing your picture.
4. Send Magistra a link to your video when you’re done.

They recorded their picture talks on Loom. They were able to use a written script and read from it while they recorded. Some did a screencast of the picture alone while others did a selfie-style video and held a printed copy of their picture.

Here is a sample student video.

Things I noticed:

1. It was easy for them to find sentences from the text to use.
2. This activity was easily differentiated. Some students stretched themselves to include passive verbs or tell backstory. Others picked 3 sentences from the text, wrote a few intro/outro sentences, and called it a day.
3. Watching the videos in class was fun and got in extra repetitions of targeted vocabulary. Every student was included.
4. They really liked this project. It felt like a creative opportunity, but was not overwhelming.

- Ashley Schneider