NOTE: Reflections will be posted each week to your group blog. Responses to other groups reflections on their blogs will be a comment post to those reflections. Please see rubric for Reading Reflections.
Covers Chapter 8, Building Connections and Branching Out, of Reinventing Project-Based Learning, p. 125 to 138.
Your reflection should include:
- Description of some ways to build connections and branch out beyond the classroom.
- Description of the EAST Initiative Model.
- Discussion on some reasons to let students “lead” their projects.
- Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.
DUE DATE: Reflection is due by Friday,March 23, 2012. Responses to two other groups' reflections are due by Monday, March 26, 2012.
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GETTING SERVER SPACE AND SCHEDULING TEAM WEB SITE PRESENTATION TIME
- Figure out the three (3) best times for your team to present during Final Exam Week. Under Resources, there are links to our Team Web Site Presentation Schedule and WMU's Final Exam Schedule for your review. Once you have figured out these times, give the form to your instructor.
- Your instructor will then hand you a paper with your Team ID and password to use while developing your collaborative web site. All team members will be able to work on their pages at the same time.
UPLOADING
You will use Google Sites for your Team Web Site. The first thing you will have to do is sign up for a Team Gmail Account. (Be sure and use your Team Concept Name so it is different than when you signed up for your individual Gmail account in Assignment IX. When you fill out the form to sign up for web page, you will be given your URL address for your web site. For example, our EDT3470 Instructors web site URL is https://sites.google.com/site/sampleedt3470/.
INSPIRATION (Part A of Assignment X)
During week 2 of this semester, your team created a Collaborative Inspiration Concept Map. Throughout the semester, you have made changes in what your final project will consist of. On October 29, you submitted your Revised Team Concept Map. It is now time to revise and submit your final Team concept map for your Collaborative Project.
DESCRIPTION OF TEAM WEB SITE
IMPORTANT: This is a TEAM project, therefore, if you do not work with a team, you will lose 50 points off your final project grade. This does not include other group assignments -- which have already lost points.
The end of the semester Team Web Site is a cumulation of items for your Project-Based Learning topic and requires team members (selected during week 2) to work together during the last weeks of the semester. Team Web Sites will be presented during Finals Weeks.
All projects created in this semester will be attached to your Team Web Site (see below).
Remember, the target for this web site is for teachers. It will contain information and resources on how to implement project-based learning, walking students through the process of a a specific project. The web site should be developed in a clear, logical way with activities, examples, etc.
NOTE: You will be graded down if your team creates pages according to assignments -- as stated above, this web site should be developed in a clear, logical way so a teacher could use it to go through the steps to teach this unit.
NOTE: There should not be a resource page ..... everything should be plugged in to appropriate areas and it should be presented in a clear and logical order.
•The opening page must contain standards that the web site meets and should be taken from Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations and ISTE: National Educational Technology Standards for Students: The Next Generation -- as a link to another page OR listed on page (usually too long doing this one!)
• Must use one of the templates found in Google Sites -- be sure to choose the most appropriate layout and theme.
• Each web page needs to contain an image. Be sure there is a different image on each page.
• All graphics and related materials need appropriate copyright/ownership notices.All graphics and related materials need appropriate copyright/ownership notices. Remember, when you search on Google Images, Google Images should NOT be cited .... it needs to be the web site that Google Images found the image.
• The navigational bar needs to be organized in the order it should be viewed.
• Be sure to use a common design throughout the web site. Make sure everyone in your group uses the same font, font size, placement of the images, alignment of everything, etc.
•Western Michigan University logo which is linked to Western Michigan University's home page, using URL address http://www.wmich.edu (see below under Resources for correct logo). This logo MUST appeaar at the bottom of the first page on your web site. It should not overwhelm the page.
• Be sure to include the a page that has the project your team has been working towards .... what this semester has been leading up to.
• At least 2 web pages for each student member of the team -- what you will need will be decided with the team to make your web site useful and easy to navigate.
• Each web page needs to contain one or two new items of information not given throughout the semester -- ideas, lesson plans, etc. for your topic. All items of information must have a short description of what they are.
• Each group member needs to create one original item -- such as a lesson plan, a podcast, etc. (Word searches and crossword puzzles do NOT count!). Each original item needs a short description of what it is.
• Each page needs to contain the name of the student that created it.
• Each page must contain an email address. This can be to a team email or a single team member's email.
• The opening page must contain a description of information that can be found on the web site.
• Each Lesson Plan (both 1 and 2) of each team member must be linked in an appropriate place on the web site and must NOT contain the name of the person who created it (other than what is already on the lesson plan). Please put the name of each lesson plan with a description of it. Do NOT call them Lesson Plan 1 or Lesson Plan 2. NOTE: You need to go into TaskStream, your lesson plan, go to the bottom of the template, and go to "Generate a Link". This will give you the URL to use on your web site. Each Lesson Plan needs a short description of what it is.
• Each Digital Story of each team member must be linked in an appropriate place on the web site and must NOT contain the name of the person who created it (other than what is already on the movie). This will be an URL of your YouTube video. Each video needs a short description of what it is.
• Group Virtual Penpals write up and Google Map assignments must be attached with a description.
• Collaborative Podcast must be attached at the bottom. (If it is too big, you will have to upload to YouTube and then link in the appropriate place on the web site). Then your podcast must be linked in an appropriate place on the web site and must NOT contain the names of the persons who created them (other than what is already on the podcast). Podcast needs a short description of what it is.
• Final Collaborative Inspiration Concept Map must be inserted in an appropriate place on the web site and must NOT contain the names of the persons who created it. The concept map needs a short description of what it is.
• Link to Collaborative Blog in an appropriate place on the web site and must NOT contain the names of the persons who have posted it (other than what is already on the blog). Blog needs a short description of what it is.
• All team members web sites that were used for the Web Site Evaluation need to be linked on the web site -- each link needs a description of the web site. DO NOT use the web evaluations, just the URLs. They should be plugged in an appropriate place on the web site and must NOT contain the name of the person who evaluated it. Each URL needs a short description of what it is.
• Each team member must find three (3) additional web sites. These web sites may contain teaching resources, lesson plans, and interactive web site resources as long as they pertain to the topic - each link needs a description of the web site. They need to be plugged in appropriate places and must NOT contain the name of the person who found them. Each URL needs a short description of what it is.
SCHEDULING FOR TEAM WEB SITE PRESENTATION
You and your team MUST schedule a time to present Team Web Site to a panel of EDT 3470 Instructors. Presentations will take place during finals week from April 23 to April 26. Be sure to ask for the presentation scheduling form in lab and turn it back into the instructor during lab. All members of the team must participate in the presentation so be sure to check everyone's final schedule and pick a time when there are no conflicts. Below is a link to the presentation schedule for the week.
Click here to see Team Web Site Presentation Schedule
Click here to check WMU's final exam schedule.
SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENT: Part A - The revised Collaborative Inspiration Concept Map will be attached in Blog. Part B - your team will present the web site for Collaborative Project during Finals Week.
DUE DATE:Part A posted on Blog by 11:59 p.m., April 20, 2012; Part B as presentation during Finals Week, April 23 to 26, 2012.
NOTE: All assignments have specific due dates. Late assignments will lose 10 points for each WEEK they are late. NO EXCEPTIONS!
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