Google Sites

Google site is a very interesting place where you can create awesome websites that can be very useful in your instructional design. For this assignment I created an ‘’Annotated Websites’’ with the purpose of have a place where I can find resources and references with the information that I need for work in my projects. I am currently working in a project about Emerging technologies and Technology integration in the classroom. So, with this website I can find all the information that I will need in just one place. This site has two pages; the main page has a vast list of sites with technology integration articles with links and a detailed description of what you can find in each page. The second page has a list of web 2.0 applications with a description of each tool.

I also plan to use this site to integrate in my lesson plan as a tool to engage my students in researches of different topics. Further on I’ll incorporate more information about others themes that allow students use as a support site.

Here is my link: https://sites.google.com/site/instructionaltechnologyedt5410/home 

Bubbl.us

This concept map represents the elements of a novel, structure and plot. My idea with this concept map is to explain to my seven grade students in a simple ways the basic elements of a novel. I planned to use the example for a literature class.   

Description of the concept map:

Conflict and Character within Story Structure.

The Basic Three Act Structure:

Act 1 (Beginning), Act 2 (Middle), and Act 3 (End) refer not to where in time in the story they lie but instead fundamental stages along the way.

In the Beginning you introduce the reader to the setting, the characters and the situation (conflict) they find themselves in and their goal. Plot Point 1 is a situation that drives the main character from their "normal" life toward some different conflicting situation that the story is about. 

In the Middle the story develops through a series of complications and obstacles, each leading to a mini crisis. Though each of these crises are temporarily resolved, the story leads inevitably to an ultimate crisis—the Climax. 

In the End, the Climax and the loose ends of the story are resolved during the Denouement. Tension rapidly dissipates because it's nearly impossible to sustain a reader's interest very long after the climax. Finish your story and get out.

Reference

http://www.musik-therapie.at/PederHill/Structure&Plot.htm

Jing

In this computer-based task my K-12 students will use the technology tool Jing, to make a tutorial on how to solve a math exercise. But first I’ll show them a tutorial about what they have to do.

The main goal of this task is that my students can use their critical thinking to construct their knowledge integrating technology tool in the lesson.