EDU221TeamPresentationsLessonPlan

toc You are on a team that has a technology or technology-using concept that you are presenting to the class. As a part of the presentation, each team member should find at least 2 examples of how people are successfully having their students use that technology in a Type II way to enhance teaching and learning. As a team, you should coordinate in such a way that collectively (when you put all your teammate's lesson plans together), you will have a variety of lesson plan ideas from multiple concentration areas.

You do not have to create lesson plan ideas! Feel free to do an Internet search or interview teachers. You should find lots of lesson ideas (or concepts), but not all of them are good. Only share GOOD examples with the class! (If you want to come up with your own lesson plan ideas, that's permissible, but it's powerful to share what's already being done successfully with your technology).

Be specific in your examples

 * **Good idea but not specific enough:** You could use an MP3 player to listen to music from an era of history that you're studying.
 * **Same good idea turned into a great example:** In a unit on World War II, students could create a playlist of songs that were popular in the era and do a critical analysis of the lyrics of one of them. If they're using an MP3 player with photo or video capabilities, they can put the lyrics in the information section of iTunes and have the lyrics display while the song is playing.
 * **Too much information:** In a unit on World War II, students would work in teams of 3 to research popular songs of the era. They would interview at least one person who lived during the era (the teacher has a list of community members who are willing to serve in this capacity). They will need to download a version of each song or create their own version (sing, use GarageBand, etc.) and make it into an MP3 file. Once the teams have all the songs downloaded into iTunes, they will create a playlist. Each day a different team will share their playlist. The music will play in the background during silent reading time. Additionally, the teams will select one song from their playlist to analyze. After researching the lyrics on the Internet or from sheet music available in the school Music Library, students will make a Word document with the lyrics. They will then use the "music analysis worksheet" to analyze the lyrics.

Notice that the successful example was specific but didn't go into details. Your audience does not need the whole lesson plan, just the concept--the main idea.

PLEASE find interesting and exciting examples. When you share them, do so in an engaging way. Incorporate them into the presentation; don't make them an add-on to the presentation. Please don't just talk about the lesson plan idea. Give the audience a visual or let the audience experience it (or a small piece of it)--do something so that we really understand the possibilities of this technology in the classroom and get excited about it.

Make a List
Before the presentation, each team will post to the artifacts wiki a list of the lesson ideas that were incorporated into the presentation and who found which one. Because the lesson ideas will be explained in the presentation, the list just needs enough information to remind Dr. Theresa of the lesson plans and allow her to give credit to the right people. A list might look like this:

Mahildabob: Bill of Rights modernization, //Grapes of Wrath// lit trip Mergatroy: ecology lecture in iTunes U, Design-Your-Own-Kitchen contest Millicent: //Charlotte's Web// family tree, powerful microbes