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started by Jeffrey Francis on 15 Jul 10
  • Jeffrey Francis
    #1 Jeffrey Francis on 15 Jul 10
     
    Well, someone has to start this thread. We need to create a system of tags that the group can agree on. With the individual classification systems, a lot of us designed systems that were specific to what we teach. However, I don't think that is going to work for a group system. We probably have to stay more broad in our categories.

    I like Christian's set-up of professional development, student helpers, teacher helpers, and lesson helpers. Perhaps the lesson helpers can be broken down into some essential elements (anticipatory set, instruction, independent/guided practice, assessment) What do you guys think? What would you include for essential elements?
  • Christian Yates
    #3 Christian Yates on 15 Jul 10
     
    I know the way I set up the student, teacher, and lesson helpers (or resources if you prefer) was slanted towards math. I do think we make some changes to make it broader and fit any discipline. So for the teacher resources we could change math games to educational games or content specific games. The student ones are pretty broad (study guides, independent practice, tutorials) but there may be some that you guys would like to add. I'm sure there are other lesson resource groups you'd like to add. I just had data, multimedia, and graphing/simulations.
  • Carolyn Slusser
    #4 Carolyn Slusser on 16 Jul 10
     
    Here is my PDF. Sorry I thought I had posted this on the 13th but I guess I never hit the post button! http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B2uybUDta9tyMGVjMjA5NGEtY2VmMi00Y2U2LTk0MDItOWQzODVkMGJlNzhl&hl=en
    I think student resources, teacher resources, and lesson resources is a great idea, but I also felt it might be too broad. I think everyone is going to have essential elements that are a little different from one another. I also feel that many of the same internet sources can be used as different essential elements depending on HOW you use it. What if we divided up these three categories by the type of technology: Audio (such as podcasts, songs, etc), Visual (any graphic representation, animation, etc) or Written Text (information, something that could be printed out etc.) The directions say we can have up to 10 main classes, and that puts us at 9, so we're good!
  • Carolyn Slusser
    #5 Carolyn Slusser on 16 Jul 10
     
    Also, don't forget that we still need to add our tags to the tag dictionary, contribute at least 10 websites, then post a reflection about the groups' tag cloud, so we'll have to figure it out ASAP
  • Michael Hammel
    #6 Michael Hammel on 16 Jul 10
     
    Correct me if I misunderstand the assignment...

    As a group we need up to 10 main classes and each individual needs to contribute their 10 websites then each of us will have our own categories and sub-categories.

    For the objective at hand, I agree that student resources, teacher resources, and lesson resources are a bit broad as our main classes; if you want to include them, they can be your categories or sub-categories. I also agree that our essential elements vary too much from one another to include as main classes. My vote for our group classes that each of us will have our own categories and sub-categories for are as follows:
    1. Audio
    2. Video
    3. Picture
    4. Written/Informative
    5. Web 2.0 (We all have AT LEAST one Web 2.0 tool in our systems)

    They are broad but they are also specific enough for all of us to use efficiently and effectively. These classes can be branched off into student resources, teacher resources, lesson resources, essential elements, etc.

    Thoughts? We need to get this done...
  • Carolyn Slusser
    #7 Carolyn Slusser on 16 Jul 10
     
    This sounds good to me. If people want to add their essential elements as subcategories they can, but I think this will work well for our group as a whole.
  • Carolyn Slusser
    #8 Carolyn Slusser on 17 Jul 10
     
    Since nobody else has replied back to this, Im going to assume the classes listed by Micheal are okay with everyone and add them for the group :)
  • Michael Hammel
    #9 Michael Hammel on 17 Jul 10
     
    Thanks Carolyn
  • Jeffrey Francis
    #10 Jeffrey Francis on 17 Jul 10
     
    This is as good of a place to start as any. This way we don't have to worry about of different opinions as to the essential elements. These are concrete categories. Besides, the system doesn't have to be perfect.

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