The Opportunity Group
Engage in discussions with other educators and explore tools available for classroom use.
Welcome/Introductions Common Ground Brainstorming Activity Try this Marzano's Highly Effective Instructional Strategies Among the most effective strategies are: Identifying Similarities and Differences Wallwisher Skrbl Bubbl.us Thinkature 100 Online Brainstorming Tools (articles, software, Web-based tools) Summarizing and Note Taking AP Calculus Wiki Solutions Manual (High School) Kinesiology (High School) Loveland-LaReole French Class wiki (High School) Student samples: Evangeline and Louis Adams Middle School News Wiki (Middle School) Amistad Wiki (Middle School) Big Horn Read (Middle School) Cyber Chickens (Elementary) Let's Go West! (Elementary) Grade 1 Classroom Wiki (Elementary) Mrs. Ibrahim Second Grade wiki (Elementary) Even more examples can be found here. Using wikis to support Reciprocal Teaching Nonlinguistic Representation Flickr's Tell a Story with 5 Photos Slide Tabblo Glogster for Education Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre All these tools support: Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition Cooperative LearningVisual Ranking Tool Visual Ranking ToolWrap Up Session evaluation
Return to Online Agendas.