Week 27: Implementing the Online
Project
Homework
for the Teacher
Congratulations! You understand the dynamics of participating in a collaborative
project and most likely have joined one. Now it’s time to jump in with both
feet. Weeks 27-30 of TechKnow Park are set aside for the implementation of your
project. There are color
mini-posters for the students each week, but there
will be no guided online activities (Steps 1, 2, 3) for your students.
As your project takes shape over the next several weeks, please continue to check
this column for resources that will save you some telecomputing-headaches
down the road!
- Need
a little more inspiration to
start a collaborative project?
Here’s
a preview of upcoming project-related topics for the Teacher’s
Desk:
This Week: Implementing the Online Project: Communication Tips & How
to Sidestep Problems
Week 28: Keeping the Curriculum Alive & Aligned with Project Goals
Week 29: Assessing Student Achievement Throughout the Project
Week 30: Evaluating the Project, Designing Your Own Project
Weeks
27-30 will provide rich opportunities for students to use all
the skills they’ve learned up to this point. Encourage
them to word process correspondence with project partners,
enter and edit project data on a spreadsheet, while tracking
people, events and facts with a database!
If
you are unable to participate in
a collaborative project for the next 4 weeks, please refer
to these suggestions
for student-centered online activities.
Reading
Strategy Spotlight
Retelling
or synthesizing requires the putting together of ideas in
a new way. It pulls together the processes of recalling, ordering
and recreating of information into a coherent whole. It invites
students to collect an array of facts and connect them to a central
theme or idea. Giving students the opportunity to synthesize
generates a deeper understanding of what they read.
Student
Activity Sheet
Printable pages designed to complement the current week's
Reading Strategy Spotlight and to help students organize their
thoughts, reflect upon reading material, and look for organizational
patterns in online text.
BBs: Weekly
Nuggets of "Best Practices" and "Brain Research"
What
happens in the brain when a student is involved with repetition?
Link to Teachley's!
TechKnow
Disaster Preparedness Page
Printable Computer Skills Mini-Posters & activity sheets
for those times when the network crashes or equipment is unavailable.
You can print a different page each week.
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