ThinkQuest+Session+Agendas

Option A: Afterschool - 10 Sessions 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
 * Dates

Option B: Saturday - 5 Sessions 9:00 am - 2:00 pm ||= Session Number || Agenda || Resources || pedagogy, goals and implementation style. They review tutorials, support materials and discuss how to best support students, teachers and schools. ||  ||
 * || Train the Trainers || Staff Developers get an overview of the ThinkQuest process,
 * Option A: 2/23/2010

Option B: 4/7/2010 || 1.1

• Introductions, History and Mission of ThinkQuest • Connecting ThinkQuest to Standards and Professional Goals • Review Manual, Calendar & Goals: Be successful in your 1st Year • Evaluate past sites with Rubric o Score sites o Write constructive criticism on projects o How to bring this assignment to the students. • Contest vs. Curriculum: matching goals through Standards o Look at Reading & Writing ELA Standards o Choose one Standard for respective grade and write how a ThinkQuest project will support it. • Discuss Self-Assessment Strategies ||
 * Teachers bring their prep schedules
 * Select a class to track for student surveys
 * Consent Forms: Teachers and students
 * Evaluation Information || Introduction

[|ThinkQuest International Award Winners]

[|TQNYC 2009 Award Winners] ||
 * Option A: 2/25/2010

Option B: 4/7/2010 || 1.2 || Project Based Learning • Engaging Learning through Constructivism • Read articles and discuss philosophies and practices. • Create a project-based lesson to introduce students to THINKQUEST. o Review hand-out sheets to guide student discussion on topics that interest them in and out of the classroom. • Managing the Project: tips, tools and support • Exploring Engaging Topic Ideas Guiding Partner Approach to Learning • Discuss teams, the role of teacher as coach • How to disseminate technical information through students • How to explore new technologies • Student as teacher • Teacher as student || || 3/9/2010
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Option B: 4/24/2010 || 2.1

Teachers to complete topic survey || Topics & Teams • How to divide classroom into functioning teams • Forming Successful Team o Review team-building activities and how students can discuss responsibilities, writing contracts with their teammates and setting written goals for themselves. o Discuss roles and delegating responsibilities o Create team check-in sheets • Brainstorming topic ideas o Participate in a brain-storming activity that explores topics both in and out of the curriculum o Answer Guiding Questions to flesh out topic ideas • How to develop ideas that are manageable, engaging and support the curriculum || || 3/11/2010
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Option B: 4/24/2010 || 2.2 || Dreamweaver Part 1 • Introduce Dreamweaver, its interface and tools. • Create a 3-page website with images, links and tables. Teaching the Internetʼs Mysteries • De-mystify how sites go from computer to server to browser and how to troubleshoot problems • Create a lesson to teach these principles to students • Web design dictionary: what all those terms really mean • Have students create computer flash cards or posters • Preparing and organizing the technology and process ||

|| 4/13/201
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Option B: 5/8/2010 || 3.1

Teachers finalizing topics || **Dreamweaver Review

Site Map for Final Project

Topics & Starting Research** • What makes it a ʻgoodʼ idea? o Dissect topic and find itʼs ʻinterestingʼ elements • Making fun topics educational o What can be taught through (baseball, music, fashion, etc)? o Have students find educational elements in their outside interests • Making educational topics fun o What are compelling topics within the curriculum? o Have students discuss areas theyʼd like to know more about Good Ideas that will Scaffold Research • How to develop questions for research o Write questions to find answers to at the library or on-line resources o Have students share their answers with teammates and discuss possible directions to steer their topic o Develop a new set of questions to divide amongst team
 * Copyright, plagiarism, permissions and citations** || [[file:SiteMap_TitleIID.pdf]]

Mickie's PortaPortal site Guest access: mightyproductions

|| 4/15/2010
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Option B: 5/8//2010 || 3.2 || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Idea Mapping & Project Management • Breaking out the topic into sections o Use graphic outlining method to organize information into sections • Using Inspiration to organize ideas o Reproduce outline on computer to save and expand upon • Turning those sections into web pages Taking the website from concept through completion • Creating a timeline o Have students set their own production deadlines • Setting up organizational tools ||

[|See example of the template we will be using] (not a complete website) || 5/11/2010 Option B: 5/22/2010 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4.1 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Fireworks • Introduction to the tools & interface • Basic image creation • Adding effects • Create a button graphic • Create title graphic || || 5/13/2010
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Option B: 5/22/2010 || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4.2 || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Dreamweaver 2 • Designing with Tables • Using graph paper to ʻdesignʼ your site • Create a ʻlookʼ for their site on paper • Open 'template.html' in Dreamweaver • Insert buttons & title graphic • Create links • Create multiple pages using "Save As..." ||  || 5/18/2010
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Option B: 6/5/2010 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5.1 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Fireworks 2 & Dreamweaver 3 • Create more buttons • Create title graphic • Resize photographs • Insert buttons and images into Dreamweaver • Create links • Create multiple pages from template page

<embed src="aha.mp3" autostart="false" loop="false" width="300" height="42" controller="true" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> || || 5/20/2010
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Option B: 6/5/2010 || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5.2

Teachers to bring in all student products for revision || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Polishing & Uploading • Have students proofread and edit each otherʼs sites • Upload & Test pages, images, etc. Tech Support • How to troubleshoot and when to ask for help Sharing Our Success • Reflection o Students write about their experience, frustrations, process, what theyʼve learned, how theyʼve grown and what they contributed to their site Evaluating the Product, the Process & the Competition • Using the Judging Rubric and Evaluation Criteria o Students ʻjudgeʼ each otherʼs sites • Peer Review o Students give critiques to other classmatesʼ projects o Students review how well their own team worked together • Celebration & Recognition To discuss if additional advanced session are needed. ||

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