It took forever to find any kind of lesson plan on the Web that does not use some form of technology. It's everywhere! I tried to look up "historical lesson plans," "old school lesson plans," and "tech free lesson plans" all to no avail. I even got creative and searched for "lesson plans for power out" but no luck. Most of those lesson plans said to read a book to the class!
I did find a page of a library lesson plan that does not use technology (though the succeeding pages do list some websites for research), and I will use the first teaching page of the lesson plan for this assignment. The lesson plan is located at http://www.us.penguingroup.com/static/images/yr/pdf/AlCapone_LessonPlans.pdf , and is a weekly lesson plan for grades 4-6 on the book Al Capone Does My Shirts.
My inclusion of technology into this tech-absent first page would be to make a list of the unfamiliar words in the first 110+ pages of the book on a SMART board for the students to see and even search for a definition. The SMART technology could also display illustrations from the book as well on the screen to give the reading experience an extra visual component. An online thesaurus could provide synonyms and antonyms for any words listed in the unfamiliar word group.
Item 3 in this plan instructs the students to make a four frame comic strip to illustrate one of the rules of Alcatraz listed in a chapter. Students could accomplish this task much more easily than drawing a four frame comic by hand by using Comicmaster.org.uk. ComicMaster provides templates and artwork to create an online graphic novel by clicking and dragging. Students could even do this on the SMART board in front of the class, or on an OPAC computer with internet capability.
One final change I could see with technology would be in creating a full-color brochure for Alcatraz in Item 6. Students could create either an electronic or hard copy of such a brochure with publishing software such as Microsoft Publisher or a similar program that could be emailed to the librarian and displayed for the class at the next class session.
Technology integration is not hard, since integration of technology is happening around us daily. The issue is teaching students how to navigate technology and to evaluate and synthesize the information they find there into a viable action or product.
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Class Wiki
Link to our Class Wiki
Link to my entry for Assignment 4 on our Class Wiki
Group 5 Copyright Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b2vG5wFGVJ55P66gqK-Kzp_xTH8PD4mWWqY7h1EJyYU/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b2vG5wFGVJ55P66gqK-Kzp_xTH8PD4mWWqY7h1EJyYU/edit?usp=sharing
Pre-assessment (Survey Monkey)
Song Rubric
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoqSGgOL6rQYdE02SVBwUll5b2l5el8wR3BuMEljZ1E&usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoqSGgOL6rQYdE02SVBwUll5b2l5el8wR3BuMEljZ1E&usp=sharing
Presentation
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GfVNJO0PNa2xuZy_mrIPUyVnz-8BKEp7Ups5u7w98uk/edit?usp=sharing
Extra Materials
Happy Birthday handout
411 Creator Student Handout
Videos:
Nicole's Story - Copyrighting Creative Work
Nicole's Story - Copyrighting Creative Work
Cyberbee Interactive Site
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