OK2askstart29

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 * The Task is Key: Differentiating technology-based projects for all learners. ** Read the full description: [[file:Ok2Ask29 Task is Key -Jan2011.pdf]]
 * Date/time: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 **
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**Links mentioned or used during this session:**

 * For Resource lists: **


 * [|TeachersFirst]**


 * [|TeachersFirst Keyword search]** (available from Search or Classroom menus) **Be SURE to read the hints!**


 * JuicyStudio (readability check by URL):** [|TeachersFirst review] and [|direct link]


 * Lingro** (add clickable definitions and pronunciations to //**text-based**// web pages): [|TeachersFirst review] and [|direct link], [|EXAMPLE Lingro-added page]


 * Edit Central Style and Diction Checker** for checking writing samples and readability levels (copy/paste text from a web page OR your assignment!): [|TF review] and [|direct link]

**For Product Ideas:**


 * Bookemon:** [|READ THE FULL REVIEW]for how to get started using Powerpoint templates.


 * Project Idea Generators** (warm up your brain to generate tasks that cannot be copy/pasted):
 * **Brainstormer:** [|TF review] and [|direct link] : make a similar tool or random drawing to combine unlike ideas (place, time, point of view, product) in a spinner-style
 * **Seventh Sanctum**: [|TF review] and [|direct link]: though intended for creative writing, this off-the-wall tool comes up with combinations created by many "generators"-- may help you think of some to fit YOUR curriculum. You could allow secondary students to use it simply to find a new setting or era for a historic figure to visit and blog about, for example.
 * [|NewTools Learning Event Generator] Very creative!
 * TeacherFirst's **Dimensions of Creativity** [|project suggestions] (a Google Doc spreadsheet of sample projects)

[|Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally] How does your planned task measure up? Check the verbs and processes you are asking students to complete Blooms Taxonomy and ICT Tools aligned to different levels of Bloom... where does your planned project fit in?
 * Moving to Higher Level Thinking:**

See the [|sample elementary project] below. It includes step by step directions, and slide Q shows how you an add a word bank. Although it is obviously written for younger students, a similar template with words and/or images can help older students in need of extra support.
 * Scaffolded Task with prompts:**


 * [|Elluminate]** (the virtual classroom tool we used) [|Join Learn Central for free] to get a free 3-person space similar to our Elluminate room 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.


 * How to share teacher-created assignment and links: //Remember to share with learning support, ESL/ELL teacher, library/media center, and parents!//**
 * OK: word document** on desktop (classroom cluster)
 * OK: word doc** on USB stick and passed to each student (slow)


 * BETTER: word doc uploaded to Google Docs** and shared by URL (read [|review of Google Docs] here) [|Here is a sample for middle school.] Note that hyperlinked clip art does NOT upload in hyperlinked form to Google docs.
 * BETTER:** For sharing links* with non-readers: Try **Simplybox** to share links graphically. Here is an [|example]. Join [|Simplybox] (as a teacher) to make graphical "collections" of links. Read the [|full TF review of Simplybox.] *You will still need to have an assignment sheet with graphic directions and expectations in either a document or some other clear form, Simply giving links and oral directions will not differentiate for organization and product expectations.
 * BETTER:** Wiki project assignment page. Learn more about making a wiki in future OK2Ask sessions of from the [|TeachersFirst Wiki Walk-Through]

**Files mentioned or used in this session.**
Please abide by copyright permissions as noted in page footers. [|Same file uploaded to Google Docs] || Google Docs [|Assignment] [|Sheet] || ||
 * || ** primary/elem ** || ** upper elem-middle ** || **Mid to HS** || ** HS ** ||
 * project name || Animal Book || ABC’s of the Environment || Oral History project || Political Ad ||
 * assignment file || [[file:lower elem Animal ABC assignment.doc]] || [[file:MS assignment- ABC Environment.doc]]
 * example file || [[file:sample animal book- partial.ppt]] || Created in Bookemon- see partial example here || Have your "tech team" make a sample with you || None ||
 * project template file || [[file:animal book template.ppt]] || Cannot make starter **in** Bookemon, so use use this PowerPoint template for a print book or upload to Bookemon:[[file:ABC environment book template.ppt]] || Have your "tech team" make a sample with you || none – have your tech team create one in Powerpoint, then SAVE As an incomplete version to fit your class' needs (depends on student levels). Those who need the template can upload to Voicethread and add narration. Consider using a past "middle of the road" student example to create a blank template for students who need more support. ||
 * subject(s) || science, L.A. || science, L.A. || social studies, L.A. || govt, history, current events ||
 * other options for same project || could upload to Voicethread and narrate out loud (even if no written words)

Share without audio on Slideshare or Sliderocket || Powerpoint book as done in elementary, share on slide rocket or slide share (not as "pretty" as Bookemon).

Other book creation tools: Big Universe ([|review]; [|direct link]) || See Google doc versions of [|teacher evaluation rubric]and [|peer eval rubric.]Lesson plan available soon on TeachersFirst! || video script and upload, podomatic for audio only || blank template for creating your own assignment || ||  || Download and "clear out" the [|Google doc]or SAVE AS on Google Docs to adapt for your own use. Please give credit to TF for the "starter." || ||
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