Using Web 2 0 Tools to Enhance SchoolHome

Using Web 2. 0 Tools to Enhance School-Home Connections Siri Anderson Roxanne Pickle

What do you put on your web pages right now?

What do you know about student/parent use of your web page?

Nice to know and be able to do • Extensions • Fun Essential Knowledge and Skills • Important to know • In the rubric for final assessment Core Content • Critical that everyone has to “get here” • On the “test”

Nice to know and be able to do • Alternative content or assignments • Out of class assignments Essential Knowledge and Skills • Actively taught during class using varied instructional strategies Core Content • • Direct Instruction Repetition Repeated Rehearsal Overlearning

Gifted and Talented • Terminally Gifted • Prior Knowledge • Highly motivated Majority of students • The middle of the curve • Those on either end for various reasons Developmentally Delayed, ELL levels 1 -2 • Challenged to learn as fast or as much as majority at this time

Gifted and Talented • Could be Special Ed Majority of students • Could be Special Ed Developmentally Delayed, ELL levels 1 -2 • Could be Special Ed

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Web Page advantages • Efficiency: Consistency is achieved and teaching time is freed up • Resources: One click away • Relationships: Surveys, volunteerism and more • Connection: Learning is no longer relegated to face experiences and only school hours