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. Students reach out beyond the classroom to gather research for their portfolios. By partnering with parents and other community partners, they should find a way to use a local bulletin-board service to communicate with local content experts right in their own community and with other classrooms. Students should continue writing recipes for their cookbook and attempt to use their online research to enrich their Anchor Pages in their portfolios. In this last hour of the course Tracey Bailey, Fred D'Ignazio, Gopher Bill, Dr. Baumbach, and other members of our core team will answer questions from all the students and teachers who have participated in this course.