Blogs and Social Media
Take pictures of student work in progress, and share via Twitter or Instagram. Or consider using a student-sharing platform like Flipgrid or Seesaw to embed students' photos into a blog within a pre-existing school or class website. Littleton Middle School has a great example of an embedded Seesaw feed that allows students to directly upload pictures of their work. |
Special guests
If students are designing a product, invite local entrepreneurs or investors to come offer feedback on students' prototypes. If they are creating something with code, invite local programmers. If they're working with textiles, invite a knitter - maybe even a student's relative - to teach them a new skill they can incorporate into their projects. For a musical instrument engineering course, La Fundación Mustakis in Santiago, Chile invited professional musicians from a local music non-profit to direct their students, as they performed on the instruments they created. |
Exhibitions - classroom
Several times a year, a 3rd grade classroom at a Cambridge Elementary school hosts an open house. For the first hour of the day, the room is converted into a gallery of student projects, and families are invited to stay after drop-off to browse student creations, chat, and pour a cup of coffee. The event itself creates more opportunities for students to participate and take ownership - they prepare the space, making signs and rearranging desks into different viewing areas for each project. |