Last Wednesday and Thursday the initiation of our Paperless Classroom occurred! It was quite exciting and as a class we had a wonderful time, problems, issues, glitches, and all.
I started with an ambitious project. It was both designed as an introduction to web based research, primary and secondary sources in a standards based sense, but more importantly as a computer literacy diagnostic. I felt that it was important to find out where our students are as a group with their computer and their Internet knowledge. What we found on the first day was to some surprise a success, the students were wonderful and were able to manage the large amount of information that was given to them. On the second day of the lesson we all got a little bit tripped up. Let's go into the details.
These two lessons were based on learning to find, identify, and evaluate reliable primary and secondary sources, then use those sources to create a WANTED poster of an outlaw of the student's choice using Glogster. This was a lot for two days of only 180 minutes total, and that was my fault, I got a little ambitious. However, this is what I wanted to know - I wanted to know where we were so that I could figure out how to guide us to where we want to go.
What is more exciting is that in a short twenty minutes or so we will be starting in a more organised less car chase crash kind of way and start with the beginning. Let's get some Google Life on!
I have posted the lesson plans for these two days at the end of this blog post. I will post a results summary document as well.
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