EDT674+Chapter+Review

This Chapter primarily focuses on enhancing Students’ ability to retrieve, use, and organize information about a topic. The findings discussed in this chapter lead to seven recommendations of classroom practices to introduce and reinforce these concepts. They are listed below:  1. Use expository advance organizers  2. Use narrative advanced organizers  3. Teach skimming as a form of advance organizer  4. Teach students how to use graphic advance organizers  5. Use explicit cues  6. Ask questions the elicit inferences  7. Ask analytic questions ** What resources can we use to implement the above recommendations? ** ● **Word Processing Applications:** Within this category, they discuss how word processing programs such as Microsoft Word can be used to create 3 different types of advance organizers:
 * Chapter 4 Summary: Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers **

○ Expository: brochures, definitions, rubrics, and programs ○ Narrative: stories, articles, or artistic works ○ Graphic: tables, charts, or artistic works

One really nice example of how to use an advance organizer was using word processing software to create skeleton notes sheets. I find this to be especially useful myself in class when presenting notes. I have created fill in the blank notes sheets to accompany my power point presentations, which allows students to see the topics I will cover and save on time writing, allowing us to have discussions on topics. Here is a link to a sample notes sheet I have created for my 8th grade Tech. Ed. Kids.

● **Spreadsheet Software:** This category discusses spreadsheet software being used as graphical organizers and also being used when compiling data and analyzing it by using functions like formulations and chart/graph creation.

· **Personal example/sample:** I have used excel myself to create various rubrics & grading sheets for my Manufacturing class. I know there are rubric development websites such as [|Rubistar] or [| teAchnology], but I prefer making them in Excel. Below is an example of a grading sheet I made in order to evaluate students welding projects. This example is handed out to students while introducing the project goals/expectations so that students have an idea of what the expectations are for their work.  ● **Organizing and Brainstorming Software:** This portion of the chapter was dedicated to explaining and introducing the uses of software that helps organize the little components/take-aways within a lesson to create a final resource of compiled information.

○ **[|Inspiration:]** One of the tools referenced in the reading was the use of a program called Inspiration, which is software that essentially creates a flow chart of information. This chart, when filled in can include a Major topic, with subtopics, vocabulary words, images, and even links to helpful sites to use as references. ○ **[|Bubbl.us]:** This is the site we actually used in this class, which I have found to be outstanding at getting ideas down and organizing thought/concepts. It can be used to create web-diagrams to quickly put ideas together and then also has a function where the web can be converted to html outline form. I have used this in class during the brainstorming step of the design process and the kids love it as a reference/tool.

● **Multimedia:** Using multimedia tools as advanced organizers is an extension of expository, narrative, and graphical advance organizers. For many students multimedia is effective because it helps them both activate prior knowledge and develop a mental model to help them understand new information. There are countless multimedia websites that can be used in conjunction with lessons…below are just a few that I have used or been referenced to. ○ [|YouTube:] a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. ○ [|Glogster:] is a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters, or glogs. The glog, short for graphical blog, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content. ○ [|PhotoStory Download:] a free application that allows users to create a show and tell presentation from their digital photos. The software uses the Ken Burns Effect on digital photos and allows adding narration, effects, transitions and background music to create a Windows Media Video movie file with pan and zoom effects. Once a photo story has been made it can be played on a PC using Windows Media Player.