After completing the Internet Workshop lesson plan, I was really pleased with how well our product actually fit into my 8th grade, LA curriculum. Assessing artificats for purpose and audience is a skill with which we often begin the year. I was pleased that this activity took something my groupmates and I already did and brought it to the next level technologically.
By incorporating web-site evaluations into this activity, I feel that my students will have many more details to use when evaluating their sites. Before, the students only have a pamphlet or newspaper article in front of them, but, by taking the activity to the web, the students will have advertisements and additional images to use when making their evaluations.
I was also pleased at how easily this activity differentiates itself. Instead of handing a group of students a more obviously simple artifact with larger print or simpler words, students will discretely find themselves directed to simpler and more complicated web-sites depending on their ability levels. I think this is a very nice feature of this assignment.
Overall, I was pleased with what my groupmembers and I accomplished. I feel confident that I will use this activity with my future students. I also enjoyed seeing the work of everyone else in our class. It was fun to see what teachers of different grade levels use with their students, and I never cease to be amazed and impressed by how hard-working early childhood and elementary educators are. They do not get paid nearly enough for all of the careful planning they must do.
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