Wakelet

This module assumes you know and can do the following:

Competency

Understand and manage the face-to-face and online components of lesson planning and organization within a blended course.(Aurora Institute)

Goals of Learning

Learning Outcomes

Learn how to improve organization skills?
Learn how to beetter develop overall presentation of materials?
Learn how to how improve collaboration?

What I will DO in this module:

Listen/Watch the recording to understand what Wakelet is as a tool
Think about what you need to improve in your teaching
Begin to experiment with Wakelet to see how it can enhance instruction and online learning.

Launch

Process the following:

Questions to think about....

What are areas in the teaching and learning environments in regards to organization that you wish you could improve or help students improve?
What are areas in the teaching and learning environments in regards to presentation that you wish you could improve or help students improve?
What are areas in the teaching and learning environments in regards to collaboration that you wish you could improve or help students improve?

Learn

Wakelet Session

Consider these questions while you watch/listen

What is your currently process of saving items in personal life, professional life, and classroom?
- AND...how is this system working for you?
How could Wakelet collections help you be more organized?
How can personalizing the collections help the user be more organized with content?
How could you use or tweak one of the ideas shared in the presentation and use in your own classroom or personal life?

YouTube Link

Watch here on the page or click the link above to open up in YouTube

Reflect

Talk About Your Ideas

Discussion Forum

Share your answers, questions, and thoughts about Wakelet in the Google Group. This discussion is labeled Wakelet.

Challenge

Challenge 1: Join the Community

Link to get started

Challenge 2: Make a Collection and Share to our Space

Determine how Wakelet could be useful

to you personally
to you professionally
for your students to collaborate

Pick a small task to use Wakelet and share your collection and how it works for you in this Wakelet Space Wakelet Teacher Collection for this training.

AND/OR

share in the Google Group about how the tool worked for you.

If you are not sure, then do the Meet The Teacher Challenge as an idea o work through.