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Assistive Technology Links:

Abledata Database of AT Products- http://www.abledata.com

LD(Learning Disabilities) in Depth - Technology- http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/technology/technology.html

Apple Computer- Disability Tools- http://www.apple.com/disability/

RESNA (Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America)- http://http://www.resna.org/taproject/

A Guide to Assistive Technology - http://www.1800wheelchair.ca/news/post/guide-to-assistive-technologies.aspx

Trace Center , College of Engineering , Un. Of Wisconsin - Madison- http://www.tracecenter.org/

NATRI (National Assistive Technology Research Institute)- http://natri.uky.edu/resmenu.html

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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 6, Project Launch -- Implementation Strategies, of Reinventing Project-Based Learning, p. 93 to 112.

Your reflection should include:

1. Discuss how technology tools can encourage students to be reflective and evaluate their own strengths.
2. Describe several ways in which you can get students’ minds ready for a project.
3. Discuss the elements of teaching fundamentals first.
4. Describe the important steps in preparing students for using technology in project.
5. Discuss ways to promote inquiry and deep learning.
6. Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.

DUE DATE: Reflection is due by Friday, March 2, 2012. Responses to two other groups' reflections are due by Monday, March 12, 2012.

TaskStream Lesson Plan 2, using Excel
Using TaskStream, you will write a lesson plan for an elementary classroom that includes a data collection activity for a specific concept within your Project topic, using Microsoft Excel as a collection-and-reporting tool.

Each member of your team will create a different Lesson Plan. You will need to discuss in lab and post in Blog which team member will work on which Lesson Plan. If two team members turn in a lesson plan with the same concept, neither will get points for this assignment.

Requirements for this lesson plan are:

• a Student activity that involves collection of data
• a data collection sheet created by you and attached to your lesson plan under Instructional Materials.
• the classroom teacher (you) showing students how to use Excel -- inputting data and creating a graph
• a Student Sample of Excel spreadsheet and graph attached under Student Sample
• Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations
• ISTE: National Educational Technology Standards for Students: The Next Generation
• assessment criteria for the lesson activity on a rubric developed in the Rubric Wizard and attached to the lesson plan.
• under objective: 1. Goal: a statement of what students will take away from the lesson; and 2. Objectives: a list of statements of what students will do which are measurable.

SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENT : Once your lesson plan is completed and you have attached (a) a sample student product, (b) rubric, (c) data collection handout, and (d) Standards (Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations and the ISTE: National Educational Technology Standards for Students: The Next Generation), it is turned in through Taskstream. Please follow these steps:

1. Be sure that you have created lesson plan, using TS Basic template, and ALL attachments (i.e. rubric, student sample, data collection sheet, etc.)

2. Review Rubric for Lesson Plan Two (in Rubric section) and make sure you have all requirements.

3. Click on the "Request Feedback" button.

4. Click in box next to your instructor's name.

5. Be sure and go back into TaskStream to read comments once you have received points for this assignment.

DUE DATE: By 11:59 p.m., Friday, March 16, 2012.

NOTE: All assignments have specific due dates. Late assignments will lose 10 points for each WEEK they are late. NO EXCEPTIONS!

Lesson Plan 2 Rubric. Be sure to read it before you write the lesson plan so that you include all the assessment parts.

Reading Reflection Rubric

FOR LESSON PLAN 2:

For helpful information on data collection, go to Raw Data

Information on Excel: Excel 2007 Help

Ideas for Lesson Plan can be found at Data Collection Links

The following lesson plan is an example of the kind of product you should be developing for this assignment. It includes:

• a handout for students,
• a sample student product, and
• a rubric that will be used in assessing the assignment that the students have been asked to complete.

You can access each part of this sample by clicking on the link below and then clicking on the appropriate links in the lesson plan.

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