Week 4 -- October 5 & 7, 2009
Assistive Technology /Introduction to TaskStream

Checkpoint | Lecture | Quiz | Assignment | Rubric | Resources

CHECK POINT
  • Quiz #3 - due by 11:59 p.m., October 9, 2009.
  • Communicate on your blog!
  • Assignment II - Part B -- Revised Collaborative Inspiration - due by 11:59 p.m., October 30, 2009.
LECTURE

Natural Reader 7 -- for download

PowerPoint from Lecture

Handout from Lecture

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/

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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QUIZ #3

Covers Chapter 3, Imagining the Possibilities, in Reinventing Project-Based Learning, p. 42 to 58.

ASSIGNMENT IV

Writing a Technology Integrated Lesson Plan Using TaskStream, Hot list, and Web Safety

Using TaskStream, the student will write a lesson plan for an elementary classroom. Your lesson plan MUST focus on a concept within your Project and each member of your team MUST create a different lesson plan. You will need to discuss in lab and post in Blog (as a comment) which team member will work on which lesson plan. If two members of the team use the same lesson, neither will receive points for this assignment. The lesson plan should include:

  • Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations
  • ISTE: National Educational Technology Standards for Students: The Next Generation
  • a hot list of subject-appropriate and age-level appropriate Web sites.
  • integration of Safe Surfing on the Web into lesson plan
  • assessment criteria for the lesson activity on a rubric developed in the Rubric Wizard and attached to the lesson plan.

SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENT: Once you have completed your lesson plan, it is turned in through Taskstream. Please follow these steps:

1. Be sure that you have created lesson plan, using the TS Basic template, and ALL attachments (i.e. rubric, hot list, etc.)

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

3. Click on the "Request Feedback (Submit for Review)" button as seen below. **

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.

**If you do not see the above button, you need to notify your instructor.

DUE DATE: By 11:59 p.m., October 16, 2009.

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

RUBRIC

Rubric for Lesson Plan One

RESOURCES
  • Once your lesson plan is completed you turn it in by selecting the "Share with Reviewer" button.
  • Check out the ADPRIMA Web site for help with objectives and lesson plans.

Safe Surfing on the Web through the Kaboose Kids Domain web site

Web Surfing Safety through FamilyFun.com

Sample Lesson Plan:

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

  • a handout for students that includes a hot list of Web sites to be used for this directed search;
  • integration of Safe Surfing into lesson plan
  • a rubric that will be used in assessing the assignment done by students.

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.

Remember, you must use TaskStream's Rubric Wizard for this assignment. You can find a free rubric builder to use in other classes at Landmarks for Schools


COURSE CONTACTS
If you are having difficulty completing any of these tasks, please make an appointment with Sharon Peterson or your lab instructor to get additional assistance.

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