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=** Creative Classroom Chaos: How to implement student-centered activities using computers—a sharing session! **=

**This session is complete. Here are links to open the recordings and chat text files: **
4-5:15 session chat file: [|4-5:15 session recording] This link opens the Elluminate classroom. Be patient while it loads. 7-8:15 session chat file: [|7-8:15 session recording]This link opens the Elluminate classroom. Be patient while it loads.

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// **During the session:** //
 * What If scenarios:**
 * 1) **mouse-grabber:** st. who do everything for the others in group or other groups
 * 2) **tick-tock:** poor student time management (nothing to show for the day)
 * 3) **substance vs packaging:** st. go for products that are all glitz but no substance!
 * 4) **task paralysis:** st. want to do everything or can’t decide
 * 5) **decision-making vs. flitting** from option to option: st. start one thing then jump to another, never completing any
 * 6) **over-commitment:** st. “dreaming too big” because of excitement about the task
 * 7) **MORE!** st. want to do extras or keep adding to products, both before and after the deadline
 * 8) **wise guy:** st. who “know everything” about the toys, little about the topic
 * 9) **LOST!** st. did not SAVE. All work is gone
 * 10) **Momma Mia:** st.'s parent or other at home enjoys the toys so much that the st. does not do his/her own work

Toggle back and forth between this window and the Elluminate room. Discuss your chosen "what if" in your group and enter possible solutions in chat for all to see (use numbers or brief boldface titles to identify the situation you are discussing).

// **After the session:** // 4-5:15 session chat file: > [|4-5:15 session recording] This link opens the Elluminate classroom. Be patient while it loads. > 7-8:15 session chat file: > [|7-8:15 session recording]This link opens the Elluminate classroom. Be patient while it loads.
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 * __Links__ for this session:** (great for those who arrive early, too!)

[|TeachersFirst] TeachersFirst [|Subject/Grade search] (classroom or Search menu) TeachersFirst [|Keyword Search] (classroom or Search menu) TeachersFirst [|Rubrics to the Rescue] (Professional Menu > Real Teachers > In the Trenches) [|Idea Generator (review)] for "uncopiable" ideas [|Tikatok Review] Direct link to [|Tikatok] TeachersFirst [|Been There Done That Tech Tips] (Professional Menu > Real Teachers > In the Trenches)

Bubbl.us online graphic organizer tool: TF [|review]; [|direct link], [|sample KWL chart] [|Elluminate] (the virtual classroom tool we used) You can get a free 3-person space ("[|Three for Free]") to use for tutoring, contacting students who are home sick, or student project sharing. Note that the free space does NOT offer a recording option.

Sample assignment sheet (customizable word doc): RTF version of the assignment sheet (also customizable): ABC Book PowerPoint template:
 * Files and templates for this session:**

http://www.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=9796 includes a template for this specific webquest with Do's and Don'ts on the slides http://www.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=9069 includes several templates for PowerPoint games (have the STUDENTS make them!) http://www.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=8878 has a template for a grammar "goofs" activity
 * Other template examples reviewed on TeachersFirst:**

http://tied2lenski.wikispaces.com/Templates elementary samples -- not reviewed on TF, but shared by my co-presenter at a recent conference