- Take the Opening survey.
- Comment on your expectations for the day.
- Review some useful Language Arts resources. Your task is to prepare yourself to help other teachers find and utilize technology in the context of Language Arts.
- Start by defining one instructional goal for which you are seeking web-based resources.
- Visit the links in the Language Arts folder.
- Quickly review the sites that seem most useful at first glance. Try the "tour" button to do that more easily.
- Now return to one of the sites to do more in depth searching. Try to find something useful to support your instructional goal. Use these questions to guide your search.
- Is this something that addresses the content and standards I am focusing on?
- Is the tool one I can readily use in my classroom? (Make sure to consider available resources and time, as well as the classroom management issues in your situation.)
- Does the tool or resource use the Internet in ways that take advantage of the unique qualities of the Internet, such as currency of information or access to vast quantities of information and expertise?
- Do the the expectations for students require higher order thinking? (analysis, synthesis, evaluation)
- Share with your colleages.
- Take the Closing survey.
Links to Tools for your Own Use
- SurveyMonkey -- Register for free. You can create and utilize surveys with up to 100 respondents.
- Blogger.com -- Register for free. Use this for any kind of student publishing. You can edit or close the blog at any time so you are in complete control.
- IKeepBookmarks.com -- Allows you to keep bookmarks in organized folders and share with the world. Users can access the bookmarks randomly or "tour" the list in an order you create.
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