Productivity Tools Day 3

PRIOR TO CLASS

• Be sure to sign the sign-in sheet as you enter class today

WRITING YOUR REFLECTION:
The final portion of your assignment (worth 30% of your project grade) is the reflection:

Create a new page in your portfolio (named "tools")- include links to each of your productivity tools artifacts. Give an explanation for each of your artifacts, what you learned in the development of the artifact, and how it could be used in a classroom. Then, explain in detail the types of activities students can do using productivity tools. Your discussion and specific descriptions should focus on activities at a LoTi level of 3 or greater. Use examples from class readings. Make sure to publish the page when you are finished.

The easiest way to go about completing this portion of the assignment is to first talk in general about the products you created, what you learned while creating them, and how they could be used by a teacher in your subject area. Then, locate 3 or 4 lesson plans that use the productivity tools and discuss them in detail. The focus of this portion of the reflection is on the ways students can use the tools at a LoTi level of 3 or higher.

There are two good places to go to find sample lessons that use productivity tools:
1. Georgia Learning Connections (select your grade level, select "technology integration" for the subject. Click the "Search QCC button". Then click the "Productivity" link)
2.Microsoft Lesson Plans

Remember that lower grade levels may use tools like Graph Club (for spreadsheets/graphing) and KidPix (for multimedia presentations) instead of Excel and PowerPoint - but you can use these as examples for your reflection.

Don't forget that all of this goes onto a new webpage with links to the products you created.

FOR TOMORROW
Your Productivity Tools project is due tomorrow at the beginning of class. You will need printouts of all pieces of the project except your portfolio reflection. These printouts do not need to be in color. You also need to have links to PDF documents of your tasks in your portfolio reflection. However, links to these tasks will be due on Friday because many of you cannot create PDF documents at home.