LESSON IDEA: WEBSITE-CREATION TOOLS

Name: Carol Taylor

Directions: Using the template below, describe how students could use a blog, wiki, or other websitecreation tool to learn required learning standards in your content area: For an A grade provide an idea that
reaches a Level of Technology Implementation of 4 or above. Remember higher levels (4-6) require that
students assume adult/professional roles; engage in higher-order thinking; and use technology
create/publish original content for their classmates and/or others beyond their school/classroom. The
learning activities and products should be engaging and meaningful to the students and to others who will
view/use/benefit from students work. Review your handouts on Engaged Learning, Authenticity, and LoTi.
Grade Level: K
Content Area: Math
Technology Used (check all that apply): x Blog
Wiki
Other Website Creation Tool (list):
Content Area/Grade/Standards/Topics Addressed: MCCK.CC.5 Count to answer how many?
questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as
10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 120, count out that many objects.
VAKPR.1 Creates artworks based on personal experience and selected themes. b. Creates artworks
emphasizing one or more elements of art (e.g., color, line, shape, form, texture).
Brief Description of Learning Experience: What learning standards will be addressed? What will
students and teachers do? What products will students create? How will the project be introduced? How
long will it take to complete? What audience will use/care about the product(s) students are creating? How
broad is this audience? Students will each be given a number to create an idea for a video or a piece of
artwork about showing that number of objects, how the number is written and how the number is written
using letters. Students will be using either traditional materials or creating on kidspiration or other software.
Once the artwork/video scripts are complete a video will be created by the teacher (with the input from the
students as to what order the items should go in as well as what makes sense) and the video will be
posted to the blog. The video will be used for future instruction and practice. This lesson allows for
additional practice of writing numbers and counting objects. This would take 30-45 min of classroom time
and an additional hour or two for editing etc. The audience would be preschool/kindergarten.
Blooms Level of Critical Thinking Required (check all that apply):
See http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy
x Remembering x Understanding x Applying
Analyzing
Evaluating x creating
Student Engagement: Which indicators of Engaged Learning area strong and why? (See Engaged
Learning and Authenticity handouts distributed earlier this semester.) Students will be engaged because
they are creating. This is a standards based activity.
Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi): What LoTi would this lesson be and Why?(See Engaged
Learning handout distributed earlier this semester.) Level 4 because there is no professional involved
but the students are creating and publishing.
Importance of technology: Why is using a website-creation tool critical to the project? Could the project
be completed without this technology? What would be lost without using it? What other types of
technology, if any, are going to be used in the learning experience? Without technology, I feel students
may lose interest. The knowledge that a movie is being created to share with their families and use for
future instruction creates an automatic buy in to the project. Without technology this would turn into just
another worksheet type of activity.
Inspiration (optional): If you used existing example as a model for your project (whether in part or
whole), include the URL(s) so we can visit. Explain what concepts you borrowed from others.

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Internet Safety and Student Privacy: Briefly discuss some possible issues surrounding Internet safety and
student privacy that could arise while implementing this learning experience and explain how you would
(1) minimize risks to students/yourself; (2) alleviate any fears by parents/administrators, and (3) follow
common Internet Safety/Acceptable Use Policies. Childrens faces and last names will NOT be used in the
video all filming will be done from behind with the student explaining their work. The blog that this is
posted on will be available only to parents and administration.
Describe your personal learning goal for this activity. What are you trying that you have not tried
before? What do you hope to learn from this activity? How do you hope it will help students learn?
Attempting to make a video that combines still images, live feeds and having it flow smoothly and look
professional so parents are able to enjoy the finished product. I hope that this activity will create
excitement about numbers, counting and writing them with letters.
Other comments about your proposed activity: