ETC647

Sarah's unit details collaborative efforts from the beginning. The unit's direction is clear as it provides students with modeling, practice, and assessment.

WIll this be measured in the rubrics or by teacher observation of stacks created?

This will be measured through the teacher observations of the stacks that are created on our class stack. Thanks for asking!

What a great picture! My fifth grade students would be drawn into this unit immediately!

This provides student with the online collaborative efforts that you describe on your home page. This also provides students with an ONLE, as they will be able to read, analyze, and post their opinions about each other's work. However, does it match the lesson? The lesson models categorization and then has students categorize common classroom objects, but says nothing about reptiles. THe blog asks them to talk about each reptile. What is the end result then? The classroom object categorization or the blog about reptiles?

Well the students need to be able to categorize to determine what a reptile is and then discuss reptiles; therefore, I felt this was important to first learn what the characterizations of a reptile are and then further investigate the reptile specie. This should be a beginning activity to the unit.

Google Docs is a great tool that I use constantly, but I find that it is sometimes hard to manage. What flexibility is there for students in using other tools with which they are more comfortable? For example, would students would be able to use Google sites, wikis, or Prezi

I have an exact lesson plan that does this, but using Microsoft Word for the reporting. Thanks for the idea of turning it into a Web 2.0 collaborative project!

I chose to use Google Docs because it will easily transfer to eduscape in creating the webquest; however, if the other tools have the ability once I investigate it, I wouldn't mind giving the students the option on which tool to use.

How wil this be measured?

Who will have access to the Delicious stack?

All students have access to the Delicious stack, as this is used from year to year, I will have students access the same stack to build the community-to-community interaction.

Delicious tags will be measured by whether they have posted or not. I will set specific criteria as we learn about Delicious for the students to post at least 2 resources for their specific reptile.

I love this chart!

One of a couple misspelled words in the lesson.

There are many large, hard to pronounce words on this page. Elementary school students might struggle with them unless they have adequate background knowledge.

I would agree, this came from a specific webpage and my plan was to review this in class to discuss the "big" words for students before delving deeper into the unit.