Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback:
Classroom Webpages
Teachers can use a classroom webpage to keep students and parents informed about classroom outcomes.
Tips:
1. Keep sites up to date.
2. Encourage student participation and reflection on the outcomes both on the webpage and in the classroom.
3. Document how classroom activities relate to outcomes.
4. Engages students with authentic audience - strengthening the feedback loop.
Benefits:
1. Easy to update frequently without the requiring emails, photocopying or other time-consuming tasks.
2. Allows multi-media attachments to illustrate learning.
3. Comments and multiple authors incorporate student and parent voice.
These tools also work very well with providing feedback and cooperative learning to set a collaborative learning environment in your classroom that has potential to expand student collaboration beyond the classroom to a global scale.
Kathy Cassidy from Moose Jaw shares a wiki site called "Point and Shoot" about using video to capture learning in elementary classrooms. This is a great resource and example for creating excellent communication between home and school as well as generating reflective learning for the students.
Tips:
1. Keep sites up to date.
2. Encourage student participation and reflection on the outcomes both on the webpage and in the classroom.
3. Document how classroom activities relate to outcomes.
4. Engages students with authentic audience - strengthening the feedback loop.
Benefits:
1. Easy to update frequently without the requiring emails, photocopying or other time-consuming tasks.
2. Allows multi-media attachments to illustrate learning.
3. Comments and multiple authors incorporate student and parent voice.
These tools also work very well with providing feedback and cooperative learning to set a collaborative learning environment in your classroom that has potential to expand student collaboration beyond the classroom to a global scale.
Kathy Cassidy from Moose Jaw shares a wiki site called "Point and Shoot" about using video to capture learning in elementary classrooms. This is a great resource and example for creating excellent communication between home and school as well as generating reflective learning for the students.
Using the "Group" feature in Office 365, you could have a space for sharing some student files and having conversations with students in a private environment. As we move to SharePoint, we will have "Sites" for classroom webpages.
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Claco allows creation of lessons and sharing with other teachers - a teacher lesson plan sharing network.
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