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=Week 8: Concept Mapping=

__Objectives and NETS-T Standards Addressed__

 * **1.** || **Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity** ||
 * || Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers: ||
 * a. || promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness. ||  ||   ||   ||

__Presentation of Material__
Introduce concept mapping.

__Discovery Learning and Performance__
Walk students through concept mapping using Inspiration, Kidspiration, Text2mindmap.com, and exploratree.com

__Assignments and Assessment__
For this assignment, you will complete one of the MyLabSchool skillsbuilders, Brainstorming a Lesson. You may modify the content of the activity to make it more meaningful to your particular subject of study, but all of the Inspiration functions covered in the skillsbuilder must be completed.
 * Assignment 1:** Skillsbuilder: Brainstorming a Lesson

To access this activity: Save the final Inspiration file and post it to this Dropbox folder.
 * 1) Go to http://www.mylabschool.com,
 * 2) Under "Returning Users" (on the bottom left), select "MyLabSchool",
 * 3) Select "E-book Version",
 * 4) Select "Teaching and Learning with Technology, 3/e"
 * 5) Select "Skills Builders",
 * 6) Click the word "here",
 * 7) Select "Software Skills Builders",
 * 8) Select "Inspiration (PC)" on the left,
 * 9) Click on the link "Inspiration: Brainstorming a Lesson".
 * 10) Follow the Skills Builder instructions.

Create a concept map either in Inspiration or in Kidspiration (both are installed in Willard 007 and Willard 002) or using a free web-based service such as [|Text2mindmap]. This concept mapping activity must be educational in that it will either be used to teach something within your content area, or it will be used to measure your learners' knowledge (in this case you will create the concept map as a student in your future class). Ypur concept maps will be graded based on how meaningful and detailed they are what media are used (e.g., photos, clipart, sounds) and if these media are used appropriately. Just a note. Inspiration has the free web version out now. It is Beta and is still free. http://[|www.mywebspiration.com] Todd B.
 * Assignment 2:** Concept Map

Design a lesson plan in which you describe teaching a certain concept/unit in your content area, and which uses one of the technologies that have already been discussed in class. [|This template], [|rubric], and the guidelines discussed during [|Week 2] will guide your lesson plan development. Your lesson plan must include the following components:
 * Assignment 3:** Lesson Plan 2
 * A lesson plan in which the students (those to whom the lesson is taught) create something using a particular technology/software that has already been discussed in this class.
 * An example of the student assignment from the lesson plan (e.g., a spreadsheet, a wiki project, or a concept map).
 * A word processed document explaining how a teacher could use this particular technology or software to be more productive. List one example only, and explain why that is an efficient and effective use of the technology. This use does not have to be related to the lesson plan.


 * Assignment 4:** Chapter 6 Quiz


 * Reading Assignment for Next Week:** Chapters 7

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