Develop Independent Learners with WebBased Lesson Plans

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Develop Independent Learners with Web-Based
Lesson Plans
Presented by Sherry Hutchins (sherryh_at_eup.k12.mi.
us) and Barb Light (lightb_at_eup.k12.mi.us)Brimley
FTL Lead Teachers and Digital Coaches
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Brief Introductions

• Please tell us
• Your name
• Where and what you teach
• Your level of technology use
• In 30 seconds or less ?

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Have you seen these?

• Google
• Ref Desk
• Brainpop

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Our Agenda for Today

• Website Evaluation
• Why use web based lessons?
• How does this work in a classroom?
• Getting started on your own web based lessons
• And show a lot of websites that could be useful
  to you

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Website Analysis Lesson

• Go to Google and type in EUP ISD and then click
  to go to the EUP site on the Internet
• Click on Class Server under Site Shortcuts
• Click on Brimley Middle School
• Enter user name and password provided
• Click on the Website Evaluation Assignment
• Do the lesson

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Have you seen these?

• Math playground
• I keep bookmarks
• PBS kids

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Why use websites?

• Current information
• To teach students how to use websites
• Generate student interest
• Unlimited resources

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Have you seen these?

• Numa Numa Dance
• Web 2.0 Presentation

We need to educate our children for their
future, not our past. Arthur C. Clarke
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Why use web-based lessons

• Top 10 of your students
• Enhances lessons with extras (hyperlinks)
• Allows gifted students or interested students to
  do more learning
• Middle 80 of your students
• Technology state standards
• Can be used as effectively as other types of
  lessons with more student engagement
• Bottom 10 of your students
• Technology is engaging (colors, videos)
• Fidgeting is acceptable (keyboard)

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Have you seen these?

• Think like a pancreas
• Annenberg Resources
• Water School
• Tesselations

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How does this work in a classroom?
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How does this work in a classroom?

• Enhanced notes
• 8th grade volcano lesson
• High school environmental science project
• 6th grade social studies project on Latin America
• Call of the Wild reading assignment
• Social studies about the government of Canada
• Box Lab

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• Its best to have a way for students to
  electronically submit assignments.
• Shared drive
• E-mail assignments to you
• Learning platform
• Jump drives

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What is a learning platform?

• Software that is designed for delivery of content
  in a classroom.
• Examples include Microsoft Class Server, Web CT,
  Blackboard, Moodle, eCollege, and Angel.

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What are the advantages of a learning platform?

• Gives you more control and freedom over designing
  materials. You can put in your own questions,
  pictures, graphs, etc.
• Students can open an assignment, do the work, and
  submit it to you in one window.
• Most offer features that make grading easier and
  you can put in comments for individual feedback.

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Have you seen these?

• Word Count
• Hoax Sites
• Miniature Earth

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Where to Begin?????

• Design a lesson (aligned with the state content
  standards) around a really great website.
• Create an enhanced power point.
• Use your website to deliver an assignment and
  have the students submit it back to you
  electronically.

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The Technology Integration Continuum
Electronic Discussions
Paperless Classroom
Paint or AutoShapes
Teaching Website
United Streaming
Learning Platform
Word Processing
Web quests
Power Point
Research
BASIC
ADVANCED
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For the time we have left

• We want to help you develop your independent
  learners with web based lessons! For example we
  would love to help you
• Create a web based lesson
• Create a website You might try www.scholastic.com
• Get ideas to improve your existing website
• Solve educational technology problems in your
  situation