Instructional+Unit+in+a+Virtual+Classroom



This assignment was a major representation of the Emerging Trends in Technology and our entire class. Technology is taking over education and business, professionally and personally. Our major assignment of this block was to create a virtual classroom on Blackboard. We had to choose a unit that was made up of about 3 lessons, including an instructional unit, 2 assessments, a syllabus, and a collaborative assignment in addition to the use of the Discussion Board and the other projects we have created throughout this course. We had to create our classroom under the impression that we would teach the topic completely through this Blackboard class.
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Below are several screen shots that walk you through the learning unit I created to serve as the pre-reading activities:











My Unit was based on a novel that I read with my 5th graders, Welcome Home, Jellybean. I broke up the reading assignments and comprehension assignments into 4 lessons. I tried to incorporate technology based assignments with the basic assignments done via word processing. Blackboard allows lots of collaboration opportunities when linked with other Web 2.0 applications. I used YouTube videos, a Jing screencast, VoiceThred, PowerPoint, and google docs in order to create project based learning through technology. This assignment took a lot of time and planning. It is very important when creating a virtual classroom to remember all the key elements of a face-to-face classroom still need to be represented online. Instructions and a well laid out plan is extremely important for the students to be successful. There also need to be reference tools and lots of communication opportunities for the question-and-answer situations of any class. It is very exciting to think that this is taking place all over the world and will just continue to take over the ways of education.
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