This screen cast covers the basics of my ITEC 7430 lesson plan. The lesson plan combines the elements of student constructing their own knowledge with collaboration and communication. The students collaboratively create a wiki to share their research findings with their peers and other interested parties on the Internet. The students will use digital tools such as Google Drive, Diigo, Jing, and Wikispaces to gather, manage, summarize, analyze, share, and construct their research and final product. Students will read, learn from, and comment on each other's research, shared via wiki. This project is an engaging way to have the students delve into an aspect of Roman culture that interest them and develop a deeper cultural appreciation. The cultural connections and comparisons that the students make between the ancient and modern world will make the project meaningful and authentic. I am excited that each student will now have an area of expertise in class. The students will be able to lead the discussion and lesson on the aspect of Roman culture that they researched.
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4/23/2015 06:52:18 am
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4/23/2015 07:38:46 am
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4/23/2015 07:39:56 am
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Lacey Gooch
4/26/2015 04:52:03 am
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4/29/2015 11:10:49 am
I love your screencast for this project. You presented your information in a very concise and thorough format that could be understood by anyone. I love the idea of having students take ownership of a historical theme and relate it to modern times. I think that this project is very meaningful and students will enjoy doing it. I also like how you used Google drive to design measurement tools and tools for differentiation. For lower level learners, what else would you provide (besides guided notes)? I sometimes have very low-level learners in my Spanish class and differentiating some things to lower levels that are still meaningful is sometimes difficult. To enhance this project, students could interview experts to relate modern day to Roman history or even add a presentation component to it in addition to the screencast. You could also do a "search" component where you give facts about each group topic and the other students have to guess which topic it belongs to (to relate and help the other students learn those components as well). Overall, beautiful project and excellent presentation!
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