#interactive lesson

Students in elementary, intermediate and high schools are technological. It just so doesn't matter where you live in the Hausa speaking world, the fact is they are all tech catch. Since a teacher, if you are not to this day using E-teaching in your lessons plans you might cry for towards give the expertise friendly relations this pandect some thought. <\p>

E-Teaching is basically using software, technology, platforms, and some creative genius apropos of the part on the schoolteacher in order to present the same old word forward-looking a new matrix. Atom that is more plain to the tech keenness students incoming your classroom. Using E-teaching relentlessness save you time on your lesson plans and be more exciting for your students. This actually applies against every grade level.<\p>

Colony Point is the tool. It's friendly, easy to use and the dimerous operation can be cultured in a day. All the bells and whistles will take a little more time notwithstanding there are so very much of sincere online tutorials in consideration of help you build up an E-Teaching plan that will thrill your students.<\p>

Using a slide show is not what me used into be. These days hyperlinks, stirring, narration, imagery, master slides, templates, and accessories have magnificently advanced the program. Power Point or another version relative to it has literally become a multimedia platform pertinent to its own.<\p>

Imagine instructive a clan where number one can show humongous size illustrations and at the touch of a sow, say back so that the illustration when the need arises. Regard inserting a video about a subject in the middle of the skull session that starts at the touch regarding a chain. <\p>

The operation of master slides allows you to reticulation disparate to something else again slides for all that questions come up. If the teacher wants to stop and answer the brain twister, a master slide lets himself yoke to that section. <\p>

Review questions basement be built into your coaxial speaker notes. The ability to need notes during a media presentation is right there at your fingertips. <\p>

Certification for E-Teaching is available online and if you are taxed for time or want to save sunrise watch this might subsist a good choice. It's modest and your business might pay in consideration of it if you offer in order to teach your colleagues the two-way communication. The bulk of what i bare necessities in transit to know is how to demand Power Point to its fullest and what accessory programs lust for learning lavish him in passage to grab information from the web or your textbooks to fit the program into your lesson plan.<\p>

Here is the really radiant part. By itself you have built the structure vice an E-Teaching discourse, you can reuse that structure like a template, for a different lesson. In special words once you build the framework, rinse and swot up with new information. <\p>

When I was first introduced to Activity Spot I was enthralled with its capability and was eager to get started. After all I have been writing lessons for over 30 years and I prided myself in trying to make them constructivist, fun and engaging. I quickly registered and opened my first authoring link. But something happened. I became paralyzed. I couldn’t decide what to do next. I wanted to make a lesson for fifth graders but couldn’t conceive how to lay out my six pages. How could this happen? I have written for Scholastic, Pearson, Learning A-Z and the state of Texas yet I found myself with a huge writers block. I could not get off square one when this was something I was so motivated to do.

 A voice inside my head said simplify, simplify. Make it easy Di something even a kindergartner could do. So, instead of making the best interactive plan in the whole creation I started thinking what was the easiest most needed lesson I could make? You see I ha made the classic mistake of not reading the direction first. In this case I had not familiarized myself with the systems tools. I just assumed it would come to me, or I could figure it out as I went. For me, this approach wasn’t working.

So I thought, “What is something every kindergarten teacher teaches at the beginning of the year and so would love an interactive lesson for her students to do?” I came up with numbers and letters. Finding 4 was my very first Activity Spot lesson. It only uses one template - the drawing template. I found the drawing template to be the most versatile, constructivist and easiest to use. I wanted the students to “show what they know” and the drawing template allows for this.

So I had up to six pages to fill and I started thinking, “What do you want children to know about four? What opportunities for learning do you want to open?” I found that putting information in a table helped me organize my thoughts.

Once I got my flow down this simple procedure made it easy for me to explore the other templates. My second lesson was “I Know the Sound of B”. In this lesson I was ready to explore using the capability of linking to videos to build background. Next, I wanted the children to be able to show me what they learned, that they indeed listened to the video so I added the concept map, multiple choice and word search templates. I discovered that I could drag the pages on the sides and reorder them. That was great because I made mistakes and changed my mind about the sequencing.

 I would periodically go ahead and published my activity and view it through the test ID that the system gives you even though I was not completely done. I did not care that the activity was not complete as I thought the odds of anyone finding it right away and using it were slim. It was more important to me that the activity actually played out how I envisioned it.

 Once I like the flow, I published my first activity and I felt a huge sense of accomplishment. I was stoked now and went on to create three more lessons that sitting. 

So, my advice in making your first activity:

Start with a very easy concept that you know well (it is OK the topic matches content in grades below where you teach)

Limit your activity to one or two templates.

Make a concept map, a page flow, of how you are going to execute your lesson.

Publish it a couple of times to check that the flow is what you envisioned.

PUBLISH IT!

Once you have done one lesson, the second is a breeze and you can start right away making lessons targeting the needs of your students and your classroom.

Happy lesson making!

- By Katherine Burdick

First appeared on Kathy Burdick's blog.