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Activity 1 Brainstorm a list of essential learning strategies related to your content area below.

Brainstorm a list of possible Web 2.0 tools.

What analog activity could you make digital?

Activity 2 -Reader's & Author's point of view -Essential question: How does what we read change/affect our own beliefs (in this case, hero)?
 * Choose a topic**

Review the NETS standards for students and the NYS standards related to this topic

-Determine author's purpose -Determine author's point-of-view -Interpret character from dialogue, action, thought (characterization) -Determine theme
 * Establish some overarching learning goals and objectives**

Assessment and authentic evaluation -Anticipatory "blog" visits the traits of a hero -Interview someone you consider a hero and put it on a voice thread -Wikipidia entry on definition of a hero -Read/view information from different points of view relative to the same idea -Podcasts -Media clips -Newspapers online (USA online - blog comments) - -Combine different POV to determine our own beliefs/POV (synthesize the information provided)

Use the chart paper to Web that topic first by subject, then by learning strategies or core subjects.

Decide on Initiating and Culminating activities. -See assessment section.

Each person at the table should choose an area of the visual web you want to create an lesson activity around.


 * __Plan learning experiences:__** Develop a variety or single learning experience(s) related to the topic. Integrate technology. (Resource section on wiki will help) Plan for small and large group activities, learning centers/stations, independent research, exploration, problem-solving, using both divergent/convergent learning activities