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Edu20.org from a Student's Perspective

Overview of edu20.org from a teacher's perspective

Workshop Steps:  Our 12 Step Plan

Day One:

1. Log-on & Navigate the Site
2. Create a Class and Enroll Students (at least yourself) & add me as a co-teacher.
3. Add content using the HTML editor - First Assignment (HTML Editor) & Second Assignment (Jing Screencast)

Day Two: (1-7 = 8a-9:30a) (8 = 9:30a-10:30a) (9=10:30a-1:30 with lunch break) 1:30-4:00 = Continue workshop and specific tech requests

1. Home- locker, photos, change avatar and other account settings. (quick 5 minutes)
2. Learn- grades, portfolio (quick 5 minutes)
3. Family - access grades and other information (quick 10 minutes)
4. School - news & library & Community (quick 10 minutes)
5. Create a group, use the parent/child sessions, configure admin policies, backup, archive, copy (15 minutes)
6. Add at least 3 class resources. (20 minutes)
7. Create a virtual office hours discussion forum, subscribe to it, configure messages to email. (25 minutes)
8. Create Assignments - create fake assignments using each of the assignment types (1 hour)
9. Create Lessons - create a self-paced lesson with at least three 'gates' using Bloom's Taxonomy.  This should be something you will use in class this year. The final presentation should be a multimedia presentation that will be assessed using the common assessment we will create as a class.  (2.5 hours)

Detailed Lesson Tasks: (if you do not accomplish these tasks in the time allotted, please try not to worry.  You will have more time to work on them during open lab-time from 1:30-4:00pm.) 

1. Brainstorm a lesson idea (what will be the content or enduring understanding you want students to get?) (10 minutes)
2. Find an article, podcast or video that students will read/watch independently and then create a Quiz Assignment to test students' recall of basic facts.  The quiz should only have selected response questions so it can be automatically graded by edu20.  (See How-to's for places to look for these resources) (20 minutes)
3. Find another resource and create a Freeform Assignment that asks students do something higher up in Bloom's taxonomy (Understand, Explain, Analyze, Apply, Evaluate etc) - i.e. some sort of constructed response or performance (essay, compare & contrast, discussion forum, etc) (20 minutes)
4. Develop a final assignment that asks students to create a multimedia presentation to demonstrate their learning. (20 minutes)
5. We will then develop a common assessment rubric for effective Multimedia Presentations, upload it to Edu20 and attach it to a curriculum so you can use the rubric and then add your content criteria. (80 Minutes)
6. You should come up with a plan to teach your students what an effective multimedia presentation looks like.  You should schedule time for your students to do at least one, but preferably two, multimedia presentations before November 1st.  You should also create an assignment that asks students to reflect on their growth over time of this specific skill. We will come back in November to look at student work, set benchmarks and calibrate and further modify the rubric. (Done on your own over summer and during the first two weeks of school)