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Final Project: Effective Use of Computers as
Mindtools in the Classroom
Misti Holloway and Katherine Jones
Digital Technologies in EducationITC 5220-375Spring 2012
The Civil Rights Movement Collaborative Group Projects
Cross-Curricular Project: The Help novel, the Civil Rights Movement & 21st Century
Skills Junior Honors Classes
2012-2013
Overview of Cross-curricular project: The Civil
Rights Movement & The Help
• Teachers from different curricular areas plan a unit implementing English, History, and Technology into a research project.
• The students are placed in groups of three to four students to complete work assignments for ten different work stations.
• Each assignment topic is related to an important event that took place during the Civil Rights movement.
• For each station, students read background information, research, and produce a product.
• All ten products will be put together into one presentation incorporating technology, collaboration, and creative thinking.
• Knowledge Construction Tools, Social Mediating, Dynamic Modeling Tools, and Semantic Tools are used throughout the process.
Project Goals• Students will construct knowledge about the Civil Rights Movement
while locating, organizing, analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing information from a variety of sources during research.
• Students will demonstrate creative thinking while developing innovative products using technology.
• Students will interact, collaborate, and publish with peers employing a variety of digital environments and media.
• Students will create original works as means of personal expression.
• Students will demonstrate a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.
SOCIAL MEDIATING IN EDUCATION used with the class website
Class Websites for Social Mediating
Wiki Assignment Number and Technology
Requirements for Final Presentation (in red)• Assignment One: Harlem Renaissance
• (Design a timeline using Microsoft word )
• Assignment Two: Segregation • (Create an infomercial using Flip Video.)
• Assignment Three: School Desegregation • (Design graph using Excel.)
• Assignment Four: The Montgomery Bus Boycott • (Compose a news article and illustrate with clip art or
graphics.)
• Assignment Five: Sit-Ins • (Create “blogs” for famous people involved in sit-ins.
What would they put on their blog if they had one?)
Wiki Assignment Number and Technology Requirements for
Final Presentation (in red) cont.
• Assignment Six: Freedom Riders • (Recreate a newscast to explain detail of events. Use
Flip Video to film and save.)
• Assignment Seven: Desegregating Southern Universities
• Assignment Eight: The March on Washington • (Each student collect highlights of event from The Library
of Congress American Memory website. Explain why you selected that article.
• Assignment Nine: Voter Registration• Assignment Ten: The End of the Movement
Harlem Renaissance Time Line Station
Groups will participating in group work stations.
There are ten stations in all each focused on an important event that took place during the Civil Rights Movement.
Teacher teams will set up work stations in their classes and allow time for groups to work on research and product production.
Example of Group Work Station Set-up
Group Work
Stations 1-3 in
English Class
Group Work
Stations 4-6 in Social
Studies
Group Work
Stations 7-10 in
technology or
exploratory wheel
Group Work Station Procedure
Start at assigned
group work
station number.
Open The Help forum. Go to Civil Rights Movement
link. Find the PowerPoint
for your station. Read background information .
Review rubric for the group
work station.
Research topic and collaborat
e with group to complete assigned
task.
Assignment One: Harlem Renaissance
Knowledge
Construction Tools Hyperlinks in PowerPoint
used to build background
information.
Video linked into
PowerPoint for building
background information.
Additional research to
topic by students using assigned links.
Social Mediating
Discussion using blog
on teacher’s website.
Collaboration using Wiki
page.Students will
share personal forms of
expression such as
poetry,, art, and music on
blog post.
Dynamic Modeling
Tools
Create a timeline using
Microsoft Word 2010
Use Microsoft drawing tools
to create a timeline . Insert into
presentation
Design flow map for of
major events
Design circle
maps for research.
Semantic Tools
Click link below to open PowerPoint for Assignment One.
Overview of The Help Unit
• Students will comprehend the Civil Rights Movement and The Help novel while analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing the plot and historical events in the book.
• Students will interact, collaborate, and publish with peers through answering blog questions on the English teacher’s webpage.
• Students will create blog posts, a character analysis thinking map, and a plot diagram timeline as means of personal expression and novel comprehension.
• Students will demonstrate increased reading comprehension and plot analysis through using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.
The Help Social Mediating
Students will consider and answer weekly blog questions located on the English teacher’s website.
Blogging about the novel encourages students to collaborate with classmates while increasing comprehension of the book.
The Help Semantic Organization Tools
• Students will create a character analysis thinking map on a character from the novel to demonstrate comprehension.
The Help Dynamic Modeling Tools
• Students will create a timeline of important events from the novel using the ReadWriteThink online interactive resource.
Resources http://www.classroomtech.org/integration/50ways.
htm 50 Ways to Use Technology
http://www.microsoft.com/education/en-us/teachers/how-to/Pages/creating-timeline.aspx
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/