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= Workshop Title: Using Blogs to Increase Student Engagement in and Participation in the Social Studies Classroom. = ** Day: 5 ** Subject of the day's workshop: Integrating educational opportunities in to a Blog that will develop higher level thinking skills. toc

=Prerequisite knowledge: = =Content: = This course is a continuation of day 4 activities and it is designed for the advanced user. Participants will create a new blog or wiki, from scratch and add advanced features. They will demonstrate how implementing a Blog targeting a specific topic can help students in the social studies classroom improve their critical thinking skills and develop higher level thinking and analytical processes. Participants should show how they have made their wiki or blog accessible for all users. Advanced users should be able to outline and describe how the implementation of a blog or wiki can lead to better student interaction and involvement of all students but especially students who have a hard time speaking or participating in class. =**Objectives:** = =Lesson Details: = =Materials: = =Evaluation: = media type="custom" key="11336618" =Schedule: = Day 5 Meet and Greet: 7:30-8:00 Session 1: Review of day 4 and introduce day 5 goals. 8:30-9:00 Break: 9:00-9:15 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Session 2: Teachers complete warm up Blog activity to instructor prompt 9:15-10:15 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Class discussion and brainstorming educational uses of Blogs 10:15-10:30 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Practice creating Blogs incorporating elements that encourage higher level thinking 10:30-11:00 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Critique and evaluate Blog designs and ideas 11:00-12:15 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Reflection 12:15-12:30 =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Questions or Comments: = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> email Don Bierschbach at mrbhistory@yahoo.com
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Basic computer and software skills.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Skills and knowledge acquired in previous sessions.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Positive Attitude and Can do Spirit.
 * 1) Teachers will use their blog to create advanced learning opportunities for students.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Teachers will use integrate their blog into their class website.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Teachers will log into the instructor's course page and click on the advanced Blogs tab under Day 5 on the menu bar.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Once teachers have gone to the advanced Blogs tab under the Day 5 menu option, they will visit the instructor's blog. Once at the blog, the will read their task for the lesson.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Instructors will explain the goals of the course and answer any question from day 4.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Instructors will use blogs found on the internet to demonstrate ways that blogs can be used to connect students to the social studies classroom and encourage higher level thinking and student interaction.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Warm up activity. Teachers will use blogs to create a fictional history story. This will be an example of one way to use blogs in the classroom, or to extend the classroom to student's homes using blogs.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Teachers will read each teachers blog (story). They will add information to the story. They will post their additions as comments to the original post. At the end of this activity, teachers can share the completed stories if they wish. This activity shows how a blog can help bring out the creativity and uniqueness of each student while still meeting the state mandated writing requirements.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Today's focus is on adding educational and instructional elements to the teacher's blogs. As a class, we will brainstorm elements that can be added to blogs to make them engaging for students to use while away from school. As the class brainstorms ideas, the instructors will record these ideas on their blog. This will allow for the teachers to access this information at any time, even when the course is finished. Once the class has finished brainstorming, the instructors will add any ideas that they feel would be beneficial to teachers.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Teachers will take what they learned during the brainstorming session and will apply it to their blog they should include elements for students, such as a book blogs, and other elements that will encourage and promote student understanding and creativity.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">As teachers are completing their Blogs instructors will circulate and assist or answer any questions that may arise.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Teachers will get into grade level groups ( middle, high) to share what they have created.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Groups will share any tricks or tips that they found. They will then email each other their blog links. Groups will be divided by grade level.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Once groups have shared and tricks and tips they found, they will email their group members the link to their blog.
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Group members should then evaluate and critique one classmates Blog and respond to at least two of their classmates Blog activities. They will respond by posting a reply to the blog post.
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This will demonstrate how blogging can be done with students..
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Instructors Blog http://districttechnologytrainingplanblog-b.blogspot.com/2011/10/welcome-to-blogging.html
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Yola websitesBlog
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">ExamplesTeacher created blogs
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Instructor tutorial
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Instructor's course website
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Teachers will add advanced features to their Blogs and share their Blogs with classmates and the instructor.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Teachers will complete the following evaluation and reflection survey. This will be used by the instructors to guide further training.