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My name is Linda Berry, I am teaching 6th & 7th Grade Technology Applications. My question to the class is can you recreate a story? Students will be placed in groups to compliment the diverse learners. Students will use the internet to find the fiction three little pigs story, then the students will create their own version of the three little pigs using a story board and a wiki to record the story. The instructional objective: Students will create a storyboard using shapes in Microsoft Word. Students will compose their own version of the three little pigs using the correct punctuation and sentence structure (We have completed lessons on punctuation and sentence structure prior to this lesson). ISTE NETS –S: Creativity, communication and collaboration, critical thinking, decision making, technology operations and concepts. During class, students will using the internet, find the story the Three Little Pigs, in groups discuss different creative versions of the story (20-25 minutes). Students will in group’s use the Microsoft word shapes to create a storyboard for the recreated story (45-50 minutes). During the next class one group will make a draft wiki – students from each group will enter their opening version of the story, body of the story, and ending/conclusion of the story (45-50 minutes). I will monitor students input as they type their information in Microsoft word first, and the copy and past in the wiki. During the third class, all three groups will review the wiki by coming together showing the wiki on a smart board with one student reading each opening of the story from the different groups, students will complete a worksheet with the opening they want, body, and closing they want for the story as each part is being read. These openings, body, and closing voted on will make up the final story for the group wiki. One group will make the final wiki for completion of the artifact to present to the instructor (50-55 minutes). The instructor will grade the wiki for creativity, organization, sentence structure, punctuation, and content.

Application Week 6

My name is Linda Berry, I teach 6th & 7th Grade Technology Applications. My lesson poses an open-ended question – What do you know about Ulysses S. Grant? Students will use the internet to find the information about Ulysses S. Grant; they will also make sure the information is valid, before using it on the voice thread collaborative tool to record their answers. Content Standards: Students engage in conversations, and present information. The learning outcomes, skills, and content area objectives; or standards the lesson will address is learning information about the historical person Ulysses S. Grant. ISTE NETS-S: Communication and collaboration, Research and information fluency, Technology operations and concepts. Before the lesson students will create a voice thread with the assistance from the Teacher and record information on the trial voice thread. The class of twelve students will be divided into three groups of four students – students are grouped to accommodate the diverse learners two class periods of 50 minutes. During the first class students will, in their groups, discuss questions they would like answered about the famous person -at least six questions. In the second class period 55 minutes students will choose two search engines, and establish the validity of the website chosen based on the verifying website worksheet given them by the instructor. Students will began finding information about the famous person and copying and pasting it into a word document. During the third class period – 55 minutes, students will continue finding information about the famous person, copying and pasting it in to a word document. During the fourth class period – 55 minutes, students will began discussing what they want to put on the voice thread; and students will began rehearsing their entry amongst themselves in each group– 55 minutes. During the fifth class period – 55 minutes, students will began recording their information on the voice thread collaboration tool for the final artifact. After students have completed the cooperative learning voice thread activity I will evaluate the artifact by the correct completion of the voice thread, as well as the information presented on the voice thread about the famous person. Materials and resources for this project are: Computers, internet, and a voice thread site.