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Day 2 Lesson 

Digital Assignment for Students  Sample Web 

“Vocabulary I am not Familiar With”, “Places I’d like to Research or Visit” and “Questions or Topics I’d like to Know More About”. Students have already been invited to, and joined the DIIGO group “Within Reach: My Everest Story”. || 45 min || * Review KWL about Mt. Everest—discuss the “L” section as a class. What did students learn from reading this book? 90 min || * Introduce assignment goal three minutes. Help students focus their topic. Students should now watch as teacher makes two or three focus questions around their topic and model how to organize them on a web. 45 min || * Model using DIIGO to find information and answer research questions. Show students how to use the highlight and notes feature. Notes should be recorded in a Word document. LA.700.30.11d informational aids and text features including footnotes or endnotes, biographical information about the author, introductions and overviews, materials lists, timelines, captions/labels, glossed words, pronunciation key, works cited or other bibliographic information. * 90 min || * Show samples of Mixbook, Fliction and VoiceThread on wiki. 45 min || * Continue process. || 90 min || * Continue process.
 * || At this point, students would have read the novel. While reading, students kept a tri-folded paper bookmark that had a K-W-L chart on one side and on the other, the headings
 * ** Day 1 **
 * Brainstorm a list of questions or topics that students would like to know more about. Out of the topics, students will turn in their //top// three questions or topics on a separate sheet of paper.
 * Before the next class, group students based on their topics, questions and work ability. Similar interest groups may be paired.
 * Introduce the project with the copy of assignment. Show the sample of the assignment “Mark Pfezer: My Everest Story”. Now explain how you will start from the beginning to create the project. ||
 * Day 2
 * Introduce rubric site. Create rubric with the class. Cover the characteristics that would achieve a successful project.
 * Re-show the sample You-Tube assignment from the day before. This time, ask students to analyze the video using the rubric they just made. That video will se the standard of what the class expects of their projects (students will not be impressed with everything about the project, so they will more than likely give it a fair or below average score).
 * Separate students into groups and hand back the papers with the top questions and topics they wrote down.
 * Within the groups, students should now finalize their one topic to research. Remember, the presentations will only be one to
 * Show students how to create and save research to a Word document.
 * Use the sample sites on the wiki for the model research (Mark Pfezer). Save findings to a word document. ||
 * Day 3
 * Model keeping track of citations and resources using easybib.com. Enter in the Word document.
 * Students will work on their research.
 * Day 4
 * Day 4
 * Students will work on their research and presentations. ||
 * Day 5
 * Day 6
 * Begin to present projects. ||
 * Day 7 || * Present projects.
 * Watch presentations and grade according to rubric. ||