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Week 7 - Weekly To Do List

Discussion
Textbook Reading Guide
Activities
Web Resources

Discussion

Here are Week 7 Discussion quesstions: 

What tools would help you be a more productive teacher?

What's your favorite productivity tool? Why?

Give us your ideas and observations in the conference in Week 7 discussion.

TRG = Textbook Reading Guide \

See TRG, your Textbook Reading Guide, who will tell you what pages to read in your textbook. will lead you through the chapter readings and my lecture notes. Find out where the FREE tools are, here the crossword puzzle maker for online is, where hangman is, where more online testing tools are.

TRG will let you know.

Activities

Build Productivity Activities and Quizzes

This week you get to create crossword puzzles, How to be Millionaire quizzes (Rags to Riches on Quia), hangman, online multiple choice quizzes.

Directions: You will need to create 2 sets of activities and quizzes.

  1. Questions and Activities for Chapters 1 through 8. This can be a mixture of chapters.
  2. Questions and Activities for a single Chapter in Part 4: Chapters 9 - 15.

Criteria: Each set must include

  • Minimum of 5 multiple choice questions
  • Minimum of 5 items in an activity, for example 5 words and clues in a crossword puzzle, 5 hangmans, 5 questions for Rags to Riches (How to be a Millionaire), 5 elements for Challenge Board (Jeopardy)= 3 columns with 2 questions each or 2 columns with 3 questions each

Resources:

  • Fun Activities at http://www.quia.com/findout.html Scroll down to play hangman or challenge board (Jeopardy). Sign up for a FREE one month trial. It's worth the fun. Remember to save the access information and post this in the Activities and Quizzes conference, so we can all go and do your activities and quizzes.
  • Online crossword puzzle maker: Well, it's posted online but not interactive: http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html
  • Online e-Puzzles: includes crossword puzzles that you CAN play online, as well as word scramble, word search, anagrams and more. It's FREE, but you do have to sign up.
  • PuzzleMaker: Create word search, crossword and math puzzles online. (not interactive) http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/chooseapuzzle.html
  • Online Quizzes: This will create interactive online quizzes for FREE at Discovery School, but you must set up an account. Quiz Center Actually, I find that this tool is one of the easiest quiz makers to use.
  • Fun Brain has a quiz maker, but last time I tried it, it didn't let me have enough space to type a longer question or answer. It may no longer be free. Check it out at http://quizlab.com
  • Free but complicated to set up access, meaning that students couldn't tell me where the test was online and forgot how to get access to it again. QuizStar
  • If you have a free 30 month trial, you can use Quia for quizzes. Again, remember to keep the access information, so we can get to your quiz.

There, that should get you started. If you find any other free resources, that you like, please let us know.

Post the web addresses and any necessary login/password in the "Quizzes and Acivities" conference.

Weekly updates of Nets and Annotated Bibliography

We are more than half way through. Yippee! Now is the time to review ALL of your Nets choices to see if you missed something that you would like to add or if you would like to drop some that you haven't had time to expore yet. You will NOT be counted down. I am looking at an end product portfolio that shows what you DID learn this term, not what you didn't!

Some of you are going to be amazed at how much stuff you have learned already in this course!

Bibliography - Make sure that you have annotated your choices here. That means to include

  1. Grade levels or Teacher Resource
  2. How you would use this site, chapter in the book, textbook or article

Web Resources

Acrostic Poem Think of a word and create a poem from the first letters.

Comic Creator Create a comic strip. Good collaborative project.

Eyes on Idioms Help our ESL students with idioms. What does it mean to be a back seat driver? Do you have to have extra long arms?

Flip Book Design a flip book the easy way. Note you must be attached to a printer.

Inspiration - Concept Mapping. Get a free 30 day trial subscription. Or go to campus, Bld. 3, 261, the Ed classroom, which has this on all the computers and is attached to a color printer. Hint: use a concept map for Mark Rediske or Cathie Whyte and blow them away! Also, try Kidspiration, the K-4 version with audio!

Literary Graffiti - Drawing and Critical Analysis. Can be a colloborative project. Needs to be attached to a printer.

Picture Match - Helps beginner readers with short and long vowel sounds. Get the whole plan for the Gingerbread Man Phonics!

Create your own Classroom Bingo games. Download Free Trial. Would be good for ESL students as well.. See the sample in French!

Interactive skill-based Curriculum: Activities and Games for Students

 

 

 

 

 

 

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