Animal Book Reports with a Twist!

I created a lesson plan to go along with my spring animal book reports. I like to have the students obtain information not only from books, but also Internet resources. Using a social tagging account through Del.icio.us, the research experience will be greatly enhanced. Further, it will save time for both the students and me. I like the idea that I do not have to find all the sites students may need; students and their families can assist in the research process and sharing.
By the way, my WikiTeach screen name is "readingkh".

I chose to edit a lesson plan entitled Charlie and Chocolate Factory: The Chocolate Room. The lesson focuses on one chapter from this famous book. I simply added the last four extension ideas. Like someone else mentioned, I am disappointed to learn that I could not edit a link to a lesson plan. Originally, I wanted to edit a lesson plan on the Frog and Toadbook by Arnold Lobel because the lesson had been written in 1999 and the web links were outdated. I found several up-to-date links and also suggested using a Del.icio.us account to store the new links. But alas, I could not make changes or suggestions.

Changing a Lesson Plan

I have edited a lesson plan on Music and Other cultures. I changed 3 things:
1. Students would listen to 6 examples instead of 2

2. Students would travel to all different listening stations in the classroom instead of travelling to none.

3. tudents would create charts that would compare and contrast the different cultures

I feel that students should have the opportunity to be exposed to as much as possible. Hopefully this lesson plan will work for its original creator.

Social Tagging Lesson Plan and Edited Lesson Plan

For my lesson plan I chose to have my students go to del.icio.us and research Microsoft Office 2007 and then prepare a PowerPoint presentation that they will show to the class. This lesson can be viewed by following the link underneath my title.

The lesson I edited was on creating a pie chart in Excel

topic 3: Tagging Lesson

As an educational Interpreter, I do not create lesson plans per se. I did however work with a small group of students to establish del.icio.us accounts. This is a summary of what I did.
I set up an account at wikiteach.org but for some reason it would not let me login. I asked for confirmation of my password. wikiteach changed it and sent me a new one. Still I could not log in to create my lesson; therefore, I signed the end of my lesson. smile.
Caryl
Lesson
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/Wikiteach/WikiteachWriteMgr/action/add/

topic 3

I am stilling surfing sites for this week's lesson. I came across a wonderful resource for anyone who is new to del.icio.us. it is a pdf file. I printed it and now have it in my notebook. I followed the steps in Mr Muir quick guide and set up my own account. now as I am surfing the net and/or reviewing everyones wonderful links, I am tagging like a crazy person, any and all sites I might use for my students. Fingers crossed it is all there when I finish tagging today.
Caryl
http://personal.strath.ac.uk/d.d.muir/Delicious1_2.pdf
if this link does not work, search for title "simply del.icio.us Online social bookmarking" by david muir. or
http;//del.icio.us/DavidDMuir/

Wikiteach - DV Toolkit

One of the greatest challenges media professionals face is the incredible speed at which the technology advances. In addition to the speed of advancement is the constant demand for creativity and quality from the client side. The only solution to this is for the students to develop a strategy for keeping up with the innovations. Social book marking is a way to connect to the state-of-the-art and the talents who know the technology. Click on the title above to see the lesson plan.

To see a lesson plan I modified click here