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Objective: 

Provide participants some initial direction for uncovering the understandings associated with a unit of study.

Blooms: 

Knowledge, Comprehension, Analysis, Synthesis

Possible "On Ground" Activity Procedure:

Participants create five types of questions from a reading assignment (noting page numbers when they refer to textual passages or ideas), with each question moving to a "higher" level of thinking. Begin with a question asking for an important fact stated directly in a text. Then develop a question that revolves around two relationships, ideas, characters or events addressed in the reading. At the next level ask participants to write questions requiring answers built from inference – an analysis drawn from two pieces of information close together in a text or from relationships among many pieces of information spread throughout the assigned reading(s). Participants can create higher level questions based on patterns they perceive in seemingly unrelated pieces of information – a symbol, a theme that recurs. The last of this question-developing thread might ask participants to create a question based on the reading and everyday life, issues, contexts. This can be a great activity for those days when participants have been assigned short but intense readings that they will be expected to discuss in detail in class. Have participants write the five questions (noting page numbers when they refer to textual passages or ideas) on a note card, which can be passed around, used as a guide during discussion, and/or turned in at the end of class.

LMS Tools:

Discussion Board, Blog, Wiki

Web 2.0 Tools: 

O365, Google Docs, Voice Recording, Screen Capture, Online Presentation sites with voice overs

• authorSTREAM
• BigBlueButton
• Knovio
• Office 365 Login
• OOdesk
• Present.me
• Screencast-o-matic
• screenr
• Sway
• Vocaroo
• Voicethread

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