I know I have been doing a lot, that is why I am opening up the opportunities for you all to contribute. (excuse the book, like I said, I am really big on planning)

I have asked Ryan to start a Google Doc. Ryan, if you could cut and paste everyone's supporting statement (including yours) to the Doc, that would be great.

This is what we need:
1. Someone to write an intro to our group paper/argument to support argument
-We want this to be witty and interesting, so that it captures our audience who is team C and Mr.Hayes.
-Show them that we know our stuff, please include the Statement we are supporting.

2. Someone to write the conclusion.
-Summarize our main points

(The people who volunteer to the 2 tasks above could opt out of the supporting statement, if that is okay with everyone else.)

3. Someone to edit the flow of the paper to ensure it makes sense.

4. Someone to correct Spelling, Grammar, and Punctuation.
-don't just use auto-correct... The PC is definitely not always smarter.

5. Someone to make sure that all of our sources are sited correctly inside the document itself.

6. Someone to write a list of people who contributed and what their contribution was.
-This person would also add the Diigo link.

7. Someone to be our group representative to post our finished assignment.

Basically, by the time we are done with this, everyone should've looked at the paper at least once.

-Rosie

Can someone try to organize our links to look more presentable for when Mr. Hayes looks at the site? Let me know if you want to take on this little project.
Thanks.

Hey Everyone!
So in the morning, we are meeting. This is one thing that I was hoping we could vote on. What should we name our paper? It should capture the attention of our instructor and give it that nice little punch it needs. If you have a title idea, put it here and we will vote on it during our chat.
-Rosie

Based on your research what is one point that you want to drive home to support the statement? Let's take one overall strong statement from each member of the group and we can create a single document in Google Docs to submit maybe in a format of list of facts? Any Ideas? Anyone want to volunteer to submit said Document? Here is the project's requirements:

Our Instructions:
Teams A & B: One member of your team will
email your statement and links to your
supporting resources in a document to your
course instructor by
Thursday at 11:59 PM (ET).
Include:
Cohesive group statement
Names of contributing team members
Links to articles, research, videos,


The requirements on the rubric we are trying to meet:
The team provided a concise
case in which statements
were justified, appropriate,
and clearly supported by their
research

Case provided a statement
indicating who contributed.
Understanding of who
participated as well as what
efforts were provided from
each individual were
acknowledged and
incorporate

The team provided all documented information to the
instructor before the deadline via a web
2.0 tool

Other than our group statement, our web 2.0 tool should be google docs which will include a link to our Diigo group list and that should get us an A on the project.

Here is my supporting statement!

Many would agree that technology has evolved too rapidly for use in the classroom. "Some school districts added technology...but did not find that the technology was helping the kids' learning...This now makes sense - the district didn't first get all the teachers to change the way they taught." (Prensky, 2008)But with some training and rethinking how we teach students with the technology at our disposal can help improve literacy skills.
In 2011 a study was done "Maine's statewide program, evaluations found little effect on student achievement-with one exception, writing, where scores edged up 3.44 points (in a range of 80 points) in five years (Silvernail & Gritter, 2007)." (ASCD, 2011) This study showed that literacy skills improved dramatically with the use of technology. Shortly after this study, a survey was done on teachers to evaluate the use of technology as an educational tool, not only did they see an improvement in literacy skills but "65 percent of educators said students are more productive today than they were three years ago due to the use of technology." (USnews, 2011)

Yes, if you don't see it, please do!

Hey everyone! we can use this as a chat forum about the project as well!
-Rosie