Delivering Content to Students Online

Your eDay needs to be clearly linked off of your grade level webpage.

Name the page eDay and the date. You can use this page to type instructions, questions, and link to other webresources. The page is inactive until you click the box to activate it. If you are using Moodle or another online source to deliver your content, you can type the overview and instructions on this in10sity page and then link to the resource from there so it is all in same place at all grade levels.

General Guidelines:

1. List your learning targets.

2. List what needs to be turned in, how it will be turned in and date by which it will be turned in.

3. If handout or answer sheet is needed, be sure to make the handout available online as well.

4. If you are linking to a Word or PowerPoint file, be sure to save it as a pdf so that all computers can open it.

5. If you want to include a short movie clip in your instruction, if you create it yourself, you can upload it to SchoolTube and then link to it. If you find it on schooltube or other safe site, you can just link to it.

6. Brainpop is accessible to kids until 5:30 each day M-F. If you post a link to a brainpop movie, the children need to know the username and password (but you can't post the password on web, and you need to specify on your lesson that the movie is only accessible until 5:30 each day.

7. Be sure that your instructions on your e-Lesson are specific and easy for students to follow and relevant to what you are currently studying.

8. If you plan to ask students to use any online programs, be sure that you have used these in class/prior to the eday lesson so that students are sure that their login works and are confident in how to use the program and are confident that they can access the program from their home computer.

9. Avoid being software/hardware specific in your assignments, unless you know that all of your students have a certain software--for example you have done a similar assignment before or surveyed them. For example--Do not say-Create a Publisher Brochure or a PowerPoint Slideshow; say Create a Brochure or Presentation.

10. If students do not have a working home computer, as always, the public library has computers available for their use. If you know you have a couple of students who will have trouble accessing printing any pdf's you are linking to, it would be a good idea to have a few hard copies ready that you can send home with those students.

Example Lessons:

Example First Grade online lesson

Example Kindergarten lesson

Another Kindergarten lesson

Example 4th Grade lesson

Resources:

in10sity Handout 

Move pics/movies from Digital Cam or Flip on Windows7

Video Resources movie resources you can search through and link to finds from webpage

MBS Tech Conference Video Toolbox

Grade Level Online Resources fantastic sites you can search by grade/subject, etc.

Curriclum Online Resources on left nav bar, you will find math, science, social studies, and language arts.

Tumblebooks, SchoolTube

MBE K-2 Teachers, please don't forget about Education City--math, science, and LA interactive activities.

Production Resources:

ReadWriteThink Student Interactives --examples: Comic Creator,Flip Book, Fractured Fairy Tale,Postcard Creator, Shape Poem, Stapless Book, Timeline, etc.

Glogster--online posters with txt, audio, images, weblinks, and movies

Voki--Allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.

Blabberize--Easy application that allows you to speak through a picture.

VoiceThread--MBS has teacher and student accounts for voicethread already set up.

Wikispaces--MBS has teacher and student accounts for wikispaces already set up.  

Wordle, Tagxedo, ABCyaCloud

PhotoStory

MovieMaker Live

Google Docs--MBS students and teachers have email accounts through Google. With Google Documents, you can easily create, share, and edit documents online. MBS teachers and students log in through the Portal to access Google Docs.                (Handout)