Anthony+Fredrick

Anthony Fredrick's Lesson Plan Presentation -This a 5th grade social studies project that focuses on the plight of slaves after the civil war and the key role abolitionists played. The tools used in assembling this project were Flickr, blogs, and storyjumper. Here is a link to my presentation [|http ://www.screencast.com/t/WjR5Ypw0DwK]

Peer Assessment Alacia Herring

Anthony, If some of your students are like me, they find it hard to relate to events that happened so long ago. I think you did a great job with your PPT presentation by explaining vocabulary words and adding visuals. I was interested in the information and I didn’t even get to see all of the slides. I wish I had been in your class when learning history. The interactive websites used allowed students to collaborate on information and share ideas. I love how they could write about what they learned and then turn their work into a book. I will have to check that website out for my own students. I like how you gave students choices to express their learning in different ways and also allowed them to work in an environment fitting for them, independently or in a group. Your rubrics provided clear expectations for students and it sounds like you made their learning fun which always makes for great teaching!! I agree that students are more engaged with this type of authentic learning, great job!!

Anthony, After watching your screencast, I was impressed by your depth of knowledge about the subject matter you were having the students interact with. It looks like the students enjoyed the lesson from the picture you had in your presentation. The power point was a great tool for aiding students who needed the visual during the set up for the activities. What I found confusing was what was the end project? Was it just the written work of either choice one or two? Did they type the work with the book creator? My suggestion for this lesson would be to possibly have students work in pairs not only for scaffolding of struggling students but help students with their collaboration skills as they learn to use the technology embedded in the lesson. If I ever teacher 5th grade again, I will search this out. I think the students enjoyed what the did and ultimately learned. Sterling Hope