Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Tie Blog 2

 These are examples of sample student work.  These came from the students top tab booklets that they made after the lesson was taught over the Coastal Plains and sub-regions.  The Technology lesson plan was a challenge for me to complete but I was able to pull through and get things done.  The students really liked being able to type out their questions and responses in the Voice Thread.  My ct wants them to gain a better understanding of using a keyboard and typing in complete sentences versus using shortened responses for example "bc" for because. We have both noticed that many of the students that have the luxury of computers and cell phones have used this in their writing and even more so when typing things out.  I really liked how the students cane up with their own questions to ask each other and even more so their responses.  By doing my voicethread this way it made it into a threaded discussion.  I would have liked to change the amount of time it took to explain and introduce the use of voice thread to the students.  Many of them had not been exposed to a voice thread so it did consume much of my lesson time.

 Questions to my peers: What could i do to modify this lesson for lower grade levels and higher grade levels?

How can incorporate other subjects within a social studies lesson such as this one?

Pedagogical Affordances

Bloom's Taxonomy


Story Board


VoiceThread 
Lesson Plan