WEB+2.0+Tools

**Every student reads, writes, thinks, and talks every day in every classroom.**

**WECHS School Focus Questions for 2011-2012** **1. How does our health sciences theme impact your work?** **2. How are you using technology to realize our mission and vision?**

**Web 2.0 Tools** **Agenda Sept. 16, 2011** **12:15-12:25 Purpose Setting/Overview** **12:25-12:55 Differentiation** (Chris King) **Accounts and Overview** **1:00-1:20 Warm Up Activity** **During instruction how are students connecting the content to 21st Century Skills with technology?** **Each content area will respond to the question to create a whole group Bubble Map.** **Each group will report out.** **1:20-2:15 Self Paced Professional Development Experience** **Overview of the Web 2.0 Teaching Tools website.** []

**Student Activity:** **Each content area group will examine Web 2.0 Tools on the Web 2.0 Teaching Tools website. The website provides an overview for each skill category(21st Century Skill) with links for your examination and Web 2.0 Tools that could be used to support the skill. Read the introductory information and choose one idea, concept, statment that sparks a connection for you. Discuss the connection with your partner.**

<span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**"Here’s a little tip:** <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Think about a lesson or unit that you teach that bores you or your students. Look for a Web 2.0 teaching tool that you can use with that lesson. It could be just the thing to excite you and your students while making the learning more enjoyable (and meaningful) for everyone!" <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Today examine the information and tools for the Critical Thinking category. Discuss the reading with your partner making connections to your content area. Check out Bloom's Digital Technology and other links on the page. Consider how the tool(s) could be used by your students to support the content area. Choose tool(s) to try with your students. You may be using other tools with your students now and they may be used for this project, but the purpose was to give you time to experience new tools and incorporate them into what you are using.**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Today, be ready to share your experience, thoughts, ideas, opinions about one tool.** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**The Early Release days will be your time to delve into each skill category and the tools that could be used for each skill.** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**You will have the following dates to experience the tools from the 5 Skills Categories:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Critical Thinking Sept. 16**  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Collaboration Oct. 7**  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Creativity Jan. 13**  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Communication Feb. 17**  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Information Literacy** ( go to the Models link for tools at our level)  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Showcase April 27** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Culminating Activity:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Each group will design a showcase piece to be presented April 27 including evidence of student use. The group may decide to use a variety of tools from different categories or to select one tool for students to use. For example, the Intel Visual Ranking Tool(Critical Thinking category) could be used with a specific project.** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Reasons to examine Web 2.0 Tools** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Remember the E-Tips principles for technology use?** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: left;">**1. Learning outcomes drive the selection of technology.** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: left;">**2. Technology Use provides added value to teaching and learning.** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: left;">**3. Technology assists in the assessment of learning.** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Project Groups** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Project Rubric**
 * The purpose is not quantity but quality and how the tool(s) are being used to support content areas.**
 * Sally, Amy, Suzanne**
 * Dana, Kerri**
 * Mary Beth, Stephen, Jennifer**
 * Chris, James, Teresa**

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">**Resources** <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">**More Tools** <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Common Instructional Framework]  <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">**[|21st Century Skills] (Partnership)**