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[|Today's Lesson Plan]

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:
1. Go to [|Edublogs] and create a new blog. This blog should be used to house your class information. If you need assistance, go to Week 1 Day 2 for the tutorial on setting up the site.

2. You will need to create several pages, including: //Homework, Class Work, Helpful Links,// and //Parent's Page,// along with two other pages that you deem necessary. These pages do not need to be substantively developed right now, but there should be a message on each page detailing what that page will encompass.
 * On the Classwork page, you need to write a lesson plan. The lesson should be written directly for students to follow and be able to produce the desired outcome. Instead of merely posting the lesson plan on the blog site, the blog needs to be the center of the instruction. For instance, you may create a lesson where students use the blog as a web quest. You may post links for students to read an article, links for handouts, or links to videos. However, by the time students complete the steps on the page they should have met the objectives AND used one of the implications discussed previously in this course:
 * //Peer Feedback//
 * //Collaboration//
 * //Improving Writing//
 * //Reflection//
 * //Study Assistance//
 * //Presentations//
 * Thus, the overall lesson should clearly indicate how the blog promotes student achievement.
 * You may want to upload a power point presentation of your lesson, a Voki, or even a screencast-o-matic to detail/teach your lesson.
 * What sets this aside from the other lesson plans you have written in this workshop is that this one is more detailed. You are working alone to clearly develop a web 2.0 lesson for your students.

2. Now, visit the blogs of your group mates. Read their lesson plans and determine whether or not the lessons seem to effectively integrate blogs to promote student achievement. Offer feedback and support as needed in the comments area.

3. Revise your lesson based on the comments made by your classmates.

4. After the experience, click the **Discussion** tab above. Please respond to the questions, and another classmate. **Be sure to include the link to your edublogs site here.**

5. Work on the Technology Plan (not necessary for those in EDTC 640).

6. Complete the closure: //Were any of the technologies you learned today new to you? Or, were they new in terms of embedding them into a wiki site?// (not necessary for those in EDTC 640).