Hypermedia-Enhanced Lesson Plans Across the Curriculum and

School LevelsHope J. Hartman

City College of New Yorkhhartman@ccny.cuny.eduNew Educator Conference

New York, N.Y. Oct.21, 2006

Definitions

• Hypermedia Lesson Plan has hot links embedded within it for interaction. The InTime lesson plans include links to national standards and links to definitions of terms based on their pedagogical model.

• Hypermedia-Enhanced means that there has been elaboration of the hypermedia lesson plan. At HyLighter, students annotate the lesson plan connecting it to course concepts and identifying relevant video clips illustrating the connections.

Purpose of Project

• Synthesize ideas from the course as they apply to a particular exemplary lesson.

• Enhance abilities to make connections between ideas from the course and resources available on the Internet.

• Demonstrate deep understanding of principles of effective learning, teaching and development.

Two Primary Sites for This Project

• InTime: http://www.intime.uni.edu/

Database of technologically enhanced and pedagogically sound hypermedia lesson plans and videos

Pre-K – 12 across the curriculum

• HyLighter http://www.hylighter.com/

Interactive annotation technology

InTime Lesson Choices: Psychology of Learning & Teaching (Grad.)

• Read the following lesson plans and choose one of them for your project.

A. PreK: Classroom Website

B. K: I Love Spiders

C. Grade 1, 2: Giving ‘em the Business

D. Grade 3-5: Show Me Missouri’s Temperatures

InTime Lesson Choices: Adolescent Learning & Development (Grad & Ugrad)

• Read the following lesson plans and choose one of them for your project.

A. Middle School, Grades 7, 8: Water Quality in Greenhills Stream

B. Intermediate School Grades 8, 9: Graphing Linear Equations

C. High School Grades 9 – 11: Special Education Assistive Technology in the Writing Process

D. High School Grades 9–12: Introduction to Black Studies

Probing Questions Tasks (Indiv/Group)

• Answer probing questions uploaded at the HyLighter site for the 5 identified components of the InTime model:

Learning, Information Processing, Democracy, Teacher Knowledge, Teacher Behavior

– First do individually, then synthesize as a group.– Answer the pre-video observation questions.– View the lesson videos, at least the 5 required

components.– Answer the post-video observation questions.

Make Connections

• Annotate lesson plans at the HyLighter site. First do individually, then synthesize as a group.

– Identify and explain connections between ideas in the lesson plan and ideas from our course.

– Make links of connections to specific relevant parts of the InTime lesson videos.

Sample Topics for Connections• Activating students’ prior knowledge of a topic (valid and

misconceptions)

• Students’ thinking and learning processes, strategies/skills

• Students’ intrinsic/extrinsic motivation

• Students’ attitudes, emotions and self-perceptions

• Teachers’ attitudes

• Instructional methods e.g. cooperative learning, scaffolding

Sample Topics for Connections (cont.)

• Transfer to everyday life experience

• Transfer to other subjects

• Culturally responsive teaching

• Parents’ attitudes, behaviors and school involvement

• Factors affecting students’ development & school achievement

• Theories e.g. Piaget, Vygotsky, Sternberg, Gardner

Class Presentation

• Selected Pre and Post Probing Questions

• Selected connections between lesson plan and course information

• Selected Video Clips showing connections

Culminating Experience

• Hypermedia-Enhanced Lesson Plans are a performance-based alternative form of course assessment, in lieu of a final exam.

• Students are graded on:

1. Answers to probing questions

2. Connections and videos identified

3. Class presentation