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[|Today's Lesson Plan]

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:
media type="custom" key="11384686" 1. E-mail your blog/wiki URLS to me at btlove1@hotmail.com

2. **Discussion:**
 * Each teacher shares a way he/she uses the blog in the classroom. The teachers should specify exactly how the uses of blogs and wikis impact student learning.
 * Teachers and the instructor will discuss other implications for blogs and wikis in the English classroom.

3. One of the main implications of blogs and wikis in the classroom are for collaboration. Collaboration embodies peer feedback, project-based learning, improved writing and critical thinking, reflection, and even some other skills. It is imperative that students are collaborating in order to fully learn and acquire information. Please view the following video on collaboration using wikis. We will be engaging in a discussion, and then we will ultimately develop an extensive unit plan that is rigorous and includes several features of wikis.

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4. As I pull up class wikis from other teachers in the workshop, take notes on how the teachers use wikis to promote collaboration and student learning.
 * What did you notice?
 * Were there certain implications that you learned that you did not previously implement in your own classroom?
 * Were there certain implications that you question in the classroom?

5. [|Click Here] for a tutorial on embedding a video in wiki. Then, search YouTube or some other engine for a video that you can integrate into your classroom. For instance, you may be teaching a unit on Modernism, Transcendentalism, etc., and want your students to glean more information. Find such a video and embed it into a wiki page. Provide a brief synopsis of the video, and then list some guiding questions to aid in the viewing of the video. You may select your own title.

6. Visit the website: [|Screencast-o-Matic]. Sign up for a trial version. These 15 minutes allow you to record information on your desktop and upload them to the site. Clearly, we cannot all record our screencasts at once because of the level of noise. So, three people at a time will utilize the computer lab next door to record while the rest of us work on the technology plans or some other discussions with wikis and blogs.

7. Work on the technology plan.

8. Closure: //Respond by clicking the **discussion** tab at the top of the page.//