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//Welcome to Day 3 of Blogs and Wikis in the Secondary Classroom!//

[|Today's Lesson Plan]

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:
1. Search Google for class blogs and wikis related to your content area. What ideas and implications did you find for your own classroom?

Today's focus will be on lesson planning using blogs and wikis.

Before beginning today's lessons, we will view the following video and describe its relevance and accuracy in the classroom today. media type="custom" key="11282936"

You were asked to bring two lesson plans to the workshop (more if you had them). Today, we will spend the day putting them to use.

1. Using your pacing guide and curriculum, write a lesson plan in a MS Word document. Make sure that this lesson focuses heavily on the use of blogging for one or more of the implications we discussed this week. Link the lesson in a new page on **both** Edublogs and Blogger. Title it with your content area and the specific lesson (ie- English: Thoreau Study). Then, write an explanation stating exactly how the use of blogs/wikis enhanced student learning/achievement.
 * Since we have created the RSS feeds, you should visit those individuals' blogs and offer them feedback on their lessons. Were they clear? Were the objectives aligned with the use of technology and the state standards? How should the teacher edit the lesson?
 * After seeing feedback and reading the responses to your own lesson, open the MS Word document where you saved the lesson. Edit and and save the lesson. Then, in a reflection post, link the new lesson. Write a reflection about how the lesson was altered to better promote student achievement.

2. Now, you will create an entirely new wiki site (refer to the tutorial on the Week 1- Day 1 page for assistance). This wiki site will be the exact site you will use in your classroom. You will be creating an extensive unit/lesson plan (your option).

Purpose: Based on what you learned in //Blogs and Wikis in the Secondary Classroom//, we will now create an extended lesson, perhaps a unit plan, through a wiki site. Directions:
 * Go to www.wikispaces.com and create a new wiki. Title this wiki based on a particular course you teach. For example, it may be: Biology 9, Geometry 10, etc.
 * On the homepage, create an introduction to the lesson. Provide students with objectives, goals, and an overview about expectations.
 * Create //at least// five additional pages for the lesson. These pages may be readings or videos (embedded), worksheets (embedded), etc. As an educator, you have freedom to make these pages as you please. However, you **must** have an assessment and evaluation page (can be on the same page). The assessment will be of the content taught, but the evaluation will be based on the use of the wiki site to teach the lesson.
 * Somewhere on your page, upload the same video as above. Require students to discuss the importance of 21st century technology skills. Try to tie this in, use it as a warm-up, or even as a closure -- depending on how/if it relates to the lesson you're teaching.
 * Visit three classmates’ wikis and comment on their lessons. Would you use the lessons? Do they seem rigorous and effective?

3. Class Discussion- sharing the lesson plans, discussing their implications; deciding whether or not they promote student learning.

4. Work on the Technology Plan. Remember-- this is due exactly two weeks after the conclusion of this workshop to PGCPS Technology Team Office.

5. Engage in a discussion about the workshop. What was effective? Can you adequately use what you've learned?

6. Complete the course evaluation . media type="custom" key="11309330"