The course is introduced. Course goals, course requirements, and the course schedule are all listed. Fred explains that the strategy of the course boils down to three ongoing classroom processes and a four-step recipe. As homework for this hour, teachers will organize students into Writing Teams, and students begin authentic publishing.
Students take ownership of the mini-centers which the class assembles.
This new digital media will make using technology easier for teachers. As the last part of Step 1, Fred describes how to add these devices into the scavenged mini-centers which teachers and students have been assembling. They should write recipes for their Cookbook which describe how to use the new center for student portfolios. Students use the station to continue developing their portfolio anchor pages. Students write recipes for the new station and publish them in their cookbook.