EDU221PerformanceTaskPreRequisiteSkills

Making the sample of what you expect your students to create is an opportunity for you to figure out how to help your students successfully create their performance task.
 * 1) You have already made a rubric of your expectations for this project. But as you make a sample, you may find you want to change, delete, or add criteria on your rubric (maybe you decide to narrow the scope or widen the scope of the content covered, maybe you determine this is a project accomplished better with a partner instead of as an individual, you realize how much research you had to do to make it work and so you add a research component to your criteria, etc.). Better to figure that out now than in the middle of your students doing the project when it is too late to change the rubric.
 * 2) You will find resources that help you learn that new feature in your software. Keep track of those resources so that you can share them with your students (and you'll need them for building your WebQuest, too). Add them to delicious or bookmark them or copy and paste the URL into a document somewhere, but remember the good resources you found that helped you make the product.
 * 3) You may find you want to double check a fact or figure before you put it in your sample product. Did you find a good resource for the content of your unit? Keep track of it. Even if you don't need to do any research because you have all the information in your head, your students won't. They need to do the research...they're learning this content for the first time. You will require that they cite their sources in their product, you need to cite some real sources in your sample. When you find good sources of information, keep track of them. You will need them anyway for building your WebQuest, it's easier to find them now and keep track of them.
 * 4) Will the software you're using be new to your students? If so, you don't want them to have to wait to learn the software while they're making their performance task. That puts two high-risk situations into one project which is waaaay too much risk. How and when can you help your students gain the skills they need to use the software (or at least be familiar with the basics) prior to the performance task? Are you assuming they already know the software they'll be using? When did they learn it? How? How will you make sure they know it?

Your task is to do 1-3 on your own while you're making your student sample. You will not be asked to turn anything in for those items, but your work on those items will show up in your WebQuest.

For item #4, fill out this document that asks you to think about the "pre-requisite skills" for your software/technology that your students will be using. Also, many of the resources you found for item #2 can be used to support item #4.

When you are finished, create a .pdf file of the document that includes your first name in the filename. Check the class agenda for the deadline and for instructions on how to turn this in.