Teaching Tips

FOR TEACHERS & STUDENTS: Review the following standards as you outline your teaching and learning procedures.

Guam Content Standards and Performance Indicators

View at https://sites.google.com/a/gdoe.net/curriculum-and-instruction/home/content-standards-1/content-standards

Standard 1: Creativity and Innovation

Students demonstrate creative thinking to develop innovative products using appropriate digital tools and resources.

5.1.3 Use visual representation software to organize, analyze, and compare individually-researched information (e.g. graphs, Venn diagrams, timelines, maps, pie charts).

Standard 2: Communication and Collaboration

Students use digital media and resources to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

3.2.1 Participate in and contribute to content-based online projects in small groups (e.g., complete teacher-created or Web-based webquests, virtual tours, and online games).

3.2.2 Post content information (e.g., reading lists, social studies or science topics in spreadsheet or database forms) to a classroom website.

Standard 3: Research for Problem Solving and Decision Making

Students plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.

3.3.3 Locate information using teacher-selected digital media (e.g., search engines, bookmarks, website links).

3.3.5 Cite online resources used to obtain information for a research project.

4.3.2 Identify relevant Web resources using search strategies and bookmark favorite sites.

4.3.3 Select and organize relevant data in an application or template (e.g., table, text document template, database template).

5.3.2 Construct an outline or timeline to plan a project using an application (e.g., word processing or publishing software).

5.3.3 Evaluate and select appropriate information sources and digital media to complete a research task, solve a problem, or make a decision.

Standard 4: Digital Citizenship

Students demonstrate safe, legal, and ethical behavior when using technology to communicate or create a product.

3.4.5 Practice responsible, appropriate use of technology systems, software, information, and others’ intellectual property (i.e., honor author’s ownership and follow copyright laws)

Standard 5: Technology Operations and Concepts

Students demonstrate and apply an understanding of technological concepts, systems, and operations.

3.5.4 Demonstrate basic Web browser navigation to view and gather information (i.e., open the browser; type the URL; navigate back, forward, home; refresh the screen; bookmark sites).

4.5.5 Use a variety of search engines or online resource databases to locate information from websites.

5.5.3 Create a multi-slide presentation with images, graphics, animation, and audio.

P21st Century Learning: INFORMATION, MEDIA, AND TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

Information, Communication, and Technology Literacy

View at http://www.p21.org/about-us/p21-framework/61

Apply Technology Effectively

  • Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate and communicate information

  • Use digital technologies (computers, PDAs, media players, GPS, etc.), communication/networking tools and social networks appropriately to access, manage, integrate, evaluate and create information to successfully function in a knowledge economy

  • Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information technologies

Activity Procedures

Work with a partner.

Choose an island.

Explore sites to find information.

Explore sites to find interesting facts, e.g. discovery, history, culture, music, art, language.

Use the sites on the Tools page to create a visual and or audio presentation about the island.

Send the link for the project to fcwesolowski@gdoe.net into the Bringing It All Together page. Write the title of the project and its creators.

Send an e-invitation with the site's URL to teachers, classmates, and families. Include a request for viewers to comment.

The Big Think

Collaborate with another team.

Compare and Contrast facts and ideas.

Content: Create New Questions

How are the Micronesian islands related to one another?

How has this relationship enhanced the government, economy, people of each island? or not?

How can knowledge about the Micronesian islands and its people build better relationships in the schools, communities, and among peers?

....Add student generated questions

Process: Active Discussion

How did each partnership address individual search strategies on the Internet?

How well did each partnership address the evaluation of sites visited and used?

Why is evaluating websites important to self? others? In what situations would evaluating websites be important?

....Add student generated questions

Check out the main website for Book2Cloud at: https://sites.google.com/site/book2cloud/


Creator of the Book2Cloud concept:

Professor David V. Loertscher