Leslie

Day 1 We learned all about delicious, wikispaces and heaps more.

Day 2 We learned about Big Ideas and open ended tasks and questions, and used our seeing reason tool to think about relationships. We looked at using Essential Questions for the Big Idea, and supporting unit questions, and Content questions to build knowledge and skills.

Day 3 An excellent day's work. We planned the visual ranking tool for our unit and looked at different kids of assessment. Our unit plan is coming along so well and we should be able to use what we've got right away. The most practical thing was working on our unit and developing the visual ranking tool. It is great as an activity an as an assessment tool. We need to include lots of different types of assessment - more specificially, 'AS' assessment - including rubrics and self assessment. It would be great to try portfolios at our level as well. Simple ideas are to print off 'first draft' attempts and use to compare with finished products.

What do you think of our unit plan so far? Have we incorporated what we should? - perhaps we went overboard a bit with thinking tools. It might be better for us to keep it simple, and only start with a few.