Record, pass, draw is another drawing activity that keeps students entertained and laughing while they are practicing the language. I based this activity on the draw, pass write activity from the Comprehensible Classroom. Since ASL does not have a written form, I modified the activity to work for the American Sign Language classroom.
Record, pass, draw is a fun activity to use to practice language after any type of input like a story, movie talk, picture talk, or newscast. Any type of input you give, this activity can work with. It is a minimal setup for the teacher, but it does take a bit of explaining the first few times you use it with students in the classroom. Most of the work for this activity, which feels more like a game of telephone on paper, is done by students.
Since students are recording, this activity must be done with the use of a computer.
How to play
These are the instructions I give to the students:
- Type your name at the top of the page on the slide
- Record a very descriptive sentence from the story and place the video in box #1
- Pass the computer to the person your teacher instructs you to. This person will watch the video and draw what they understand from the sentence.
- Pass the computer again as the teacher instructs you to (a new person, not the original owner). This person will look at the image in box #1 and determine what the sentence was for #1 without watching the video. Record the sentence and put it in box #2. Place a shape over the image in box #1 so the next person can’t see it.
- Pass the computer to a new person. They will watch the sentence in box #2 and draw what they understand in box #2. They should not watch the original sentence or see the picture from box #1.
- Continue this until all of the boxes have been completed.
- It is important that the images be covered after recording and before the computer is passed.
- Return the computer to the original owner. They can uncover the images and see how far off the original sentence has gone.
Basically, the student will record a descriptive student and pass their computer to another student who will watch and draw that sentence out. The third student looks at the picture and records their version of the sentences based on only the picture. They do not look at the original video. Then they cover the image and pass it to the fourth person. This continues until all of the boxes have been completed. I usually do 6 rounds.
The best part…the reveal!
After all the boxes are filled or you have run out of time, the computers should go back to the original owner. The owner can look at the videos and see how far off the information strayed from the original sentence. This generally gets a huge laugh.
Extension
If you want to keep the activity going, select one of the documents to project to the class and discuss it. It is fun for the whole class to share in the laughs at how far off the information has strayed from the original thought. And who knows, you may get one that stays true to the original sentence.
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