Technology & Instruction Group Presentation

Leya MartinKelly Montanye

Katie O'HaraLaura Renna

The LessonWhat?: Students will gain a profound knowledge of Egyptian social classes. How? : Students will be put into different groups with each assigned specific social class and then create a story. When?: Students will work in groupson researching in class and creating a story at home.

Web 2.0 Tools

• Tildee– allows you to create your own “how to do” page.

• VoiceThread-holds images, documents and videos and allows people to comment in five different ways.

 

  Purpose    - Create tutorials and share it with others.

What can you use?     - texts       - maps       - videos        - imagesExamplehttp://www.tildee.com/fa3Vgf

 

How will Tildee be Used in the

History Lesson?• Students will work in groups of three.

 • Students will research their social class and

put up information on their tildee. • Students must also include the sources

where they found their information. • Teachers will grade their tildees based on a

checklist given before the project.

An Example of a Tildee for this Assignment

• http://www.tildee.com/0qQgRf

• What can you Upload?        - Images        - Videos        - Documents • Ways to Comment

            - Voice            - Text            - Audio file            - Video            - Type

How will VoiceThreadbe Used in the

History Lesson?

• Students will  join a new group that contains one member that researched each social class.

 • They will collaborate on a story using the

information each group posted on tildee for each social class.

An Example of a VoiceThread for this Assignment

http://voicethread.com/share/2341962/ 

How is this Lesson Differentiated?

• Members of each group will be assigned a role.

   -researcher    -image designer    -recorder    -vocals(voicethread only) • Textual resources will be available for

three different levels.

Why is this lesson effective? • Students must decide the significance of the

different information they find. • Lesson provides the students more

responsibility and more ownership of their education.

 • The use of technology allows them to easily

collaborate with their classmates. • Lesson will encourage open-mindedness in

the students. 

        References

1. http://www.ushistory.org/civ/3b.asp (6th grade reading level) – http://www.historyonthenet.com/Egyptians/society.htm – (4th grade reading level)

 – http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/life/story/main.html (3rd grade reading level)

 – http://www.touregypt.net/egypt-info/kids-work-Work.htm

 – http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/special/lifeas/pharaoh.html

 – http://tildee.com

 – http://voicethread.com–