Title: Encompassing the Arts Across the Grades Subject/Content Areas: Language Arts, Visual Arts, and Music Grade Levels: 2nd, 5th, and 8th Project Timeline: Projection of time required includes one to two weeks for four 2nd graders to create and upload their drawings to VoiceThread.com, three weeks (MF 45 min./day), for 5th graders to complete the entire process of writing and publishing their poetry, and two weeks for Year 8 students to compose and publish their music to complement the drawing and its poetry using VoiceThread. These times are projections. They could change. Overview: This is a collaborative VoiceThread from three different classrooms in my district (2nd, 5th, and 8th grade students). This project is an example of the power of collaboration using technology that embraces art through words, images and music. Creating a drawing using the Web 2.0 tool, Palcu Drawing for Children, that depicts a favorite place to visit or imagine visiting is the task of 2nd graders. Second graders not only draw using an online drawing program, but they meet language arts standards by writing at least two complete sentences that adequately describe the picture they drew. The sentences will be in one of two places or could be both. The Palcu Drawing for Children drawing program allows children to use a text tool to write the sentence directly on the drawing. Students will save their drawings before uploading them to VoiceThread.com. To do the collaboration portion of the 2nd graders' assignment, they use VoiceThread.com to load their saved drawing and then use the text tool to type their sentences again on the keyboard. Using the VoiceThreads recording tool, 2nd grade. ..... half of the paper ...... from the secondary music teacher. I will provide feedback orally and/or via text by personally commenting on the VoiceThread containing their composition. Another option to provide a conclusion would be to solicit the help and creativity of the students to invite parents/guardians/family members for an evening in which the presentation of the VoiceThread project will be shown to all, also providing a moment of refreshment and sharing aspects of the project itself. • Evaluation: The evaluation procedures will only concern the part of the online collaborative project reserved for 5th grade students. Above I have suggested procedures for the 2nd and 8th grade portions. Due to the complexity and subjectivity of writing and publishing poetry, I believe a rubric would be the best assessment tool to use in the evaluation criteria for any fifth grade student.E:PBS Comm_Collab OnlinePoetry Rubric.doc