Todd+Warnecke

Todd Warnecke

My Lesson Plan using two Web 2.0 tools: Completes a lesson plan with little to no evidence of conceptual enduring understandings, intriguing essential questions, or alignment between content standards. Reflection does not move beyond description of the learning experience. || ** 2 ** || ** 3 ** Completes one ready to teach lesson plan. Enduring understandings are conceptual, essential questions are intriguing for the learner, and alignment is tight between content standards. One reflection is posted where the student makes an attempt at applying the learning experience to a better understanding of Iowa Core Curriculum but fails to demonstrate depth. || ** 4 ** || ** 5 ** Completes one ready to teach lesson plan. Enduring understandings are conceptual, essential questions are intriguing for the learner, and alignment is tight between content standards. One reflection is posted that analyzes how the learning experience contributed to a better understanding of self, 2.0 course concepts and Iowa Core Curriculum. The reflection moves beyond a description of the lesson planning experience. ||
 * ** Iowa Core Curriculum Integrated Lesson Plan ** || ** 1 **
 * Rubric for Creating a Lesson for Web 2.0 class **

** Age/Grade Range ** Work Experience Program (consists of “World of Work” Class and “Work Study” job placement) …11th – 12th grade ** Iowa Core Essential Concepts for Employability Skills ** ** 1. ** Demonstrate leadership skills, integrity, ethical behavior, and social responsibility while collaborating to achieve common goals. **use interpersonal skills to influence and guide others toward a goal** leverage the strengths of others to accomplish a common goal **demonstrate integrity and ethical behavior** demonstrate mental, physical, and emotional preparedness to accomplish the task ** 2. ** Demonstrate initiative and self-direction through high achievement and lifelong learning while exploring the ways individual talents and skills can be used for productive outcomes in personal and professional life **Perform work without oversight** Use time efficiently to manage workload **Assess one’s own mastery of skills** Set and achieve high standards and goals **Engage in effective problem solving process** Iowa Core Essential Concepts for Tech literacy: 3. ** Demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. ** Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, and processes **demonstrate original works as a means of personal or group expression** Use models and simulations o explore complex systems and issues **identify trends and forecast possibilities**

Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions How does student practice and demonstrate the following skills through their work study experience? use interpersonal skills to influence and guide others toward a goal **leverage the strengths of others to accomplish a common goal** demonstrate integrity and ethical behavior **demonstrate mental, physical, and emotional preparedness to accomplish the task** Perform work without oversight **Use time efficiently to manage workload** Assess one’s own mastery of skills **Set and achieve high standards and goals** Engage in effective problem solving process **Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, and processes** demonstrate original works as a means of personal or group expression **Use models and simulations o explore complex systems and issues** identify trends and forecast possibilities
 * Work Experience Curriculum: Course Purpose : Students will develop the skills necessary for employability by acquiring interpersonal skills, 21st century skills, and demonstrating an understanding of the workplace with attention to the ethical practices needed to be successful in the workplace. **

Description of Lesson : Student is placed at worksite for a period of 12 weeks, a minimum of 10 hours per week. Student will be asked to describe how they were able to practice and demonstrate a number of the above skills while at their worksite.

Students will complete two activities: a journal writing and a multimedia project that both identify how these skills were demonstrated experientally during their workplace experience.

Journal will be written in Google docs and shared with both workplace supervisor and instructor.

Multimedia project will be created using either PhotoPeach or VuVox.

More information about this lesson (additional explanations, examples, assistance applying these concepts to specific work sites, etc) will be discussed in more detail in “World of Work” class, a prerequisite for students who wish to participate in Work Study.

Student Assignment Information:
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 * Materials ** : Computer/ internet access
 * Assessment ** : Rubric for journal and multimedia project. Assessment to be completed both by instructor and workplace supervisor

** Reflections ** This project provided me with the opportunity to re-think how students in a work study program are evaluated. Rather than a simple rubric completed periodically by workplace supervisor (that addresses punctuality, communication skills, etc), I tried to devise a process that focuses students on specific outcomes – demonstration of specific workplace skills as identified by Common Core – “Employability Skills”.

The technology tools utilized, (Google Docs and either PhotoPeach or VuVox), were helpful in different ways. Google docs provides an efficient way to share information with student, instructor, and workplace supervisor, while web-based presentation tools provided an opportunity for sharing a creative reflection on workplace experiences specifically related to “employability skills”.

I particularly like this approach because it verifies that students are learning and practicing important “work-place” skills, not just “putting in hours” at a workplace.

Below you'll find a screen shot of a wordle document that is based on the 2740 web pages I've saved (over the years) on delicious. After this class, I've imported these links to diigo, and started to explore this diigo's features in comparison to those of delicious I thought this worlde was interesting in that it shows the areas I've researched for online learning over the course of the past 7 years working in alternative schools, and its evidence of my using both wordle and delicious, one of the PLN tools identified in this class.



Above you'll find a screenshot of my hootsuite page that shows 3 of the "#" topics I've been following. One of my posts to the "fcsdweb2" group can be seen to the right. (This is all new technology for me! Now I can see how twitter can serve to help form a PLN...prior to this class I didn't see much point to twitter)

Below yo'll find a screen shot of my google reader page. Too much information!! I need to narrow down my selected topics:



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Above you'll find a slide show of photos I created using PhotoPeach and embedded onto this page. These are the photos I've been taking while biking in Moab the past few days. I consider this a first step in learning how I might use photopeach in the classroom. Using the TPACK concepts as a guide, my goal here has been to acquire technological skills as a first step, then gradually work toward integrating this knowledge with pedagogical and content knowledge. Since I don't teach in a conventional classroom throughout the day, I can't easily assign & give examples of sample student work. But I can see how this tool might be used by a student at the alternative school who is documenting a service learning project, or by another working on an independent study photography class project.

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Above you'll find a VuVox slideshow. I'm just trying to figure out how to use this tool still...still have much to learn - I explored "collage" but haven't yet explored the "vuvox express" or "vuvox studio" features. Will do so very soon. Again, like my "photopeach" page, I'm really just trying to get a better feel for the software so that I can eventually find ways to incorporate this tool into instruction, student work, etc. One thing I did like about this tool is that I could add my own audio files, unlike with photopeach. Again, in general terms I can see how a student might use this tool to prepare a presentation on a wide variety of subjects.

BELOW you'll find a screen shot of the brand new EDMODO page I just created....Like everything else I'm doing on this page, I'm just learning the basics and asking myself "how does this work?" and "will it be helpful professionally?" I think I'll find this pretty easy to use, and I'm fairly confident that I'll be able to find useful ways to communicate with students (and perhaps parents?) by using this tool.