Questioning Strategies

• To promote higher level thinking in your classroom remember to work on questioning strategies.
• Unit Essential Questions should be posted in your classroom to guide student thinking and learning.
• Essential Questions don’t have an easy yes or no or textbook answer.
• Essential Questions require thought and research in order for them to be answered.
• Questioning strategies should be implemented in your daily lessons.
• Remember to allow 3-5 seconds wait time before calling on someone to answer.
• Questioning allows students to inquiry, thus learn.
• Push your students to question at the analysis, synthesis, and evaluative stages.

 

Google Tips

Ever wonder what the I’m Feeling Lucky button is in Google? If you click this button, basically Google will skip the search results page and go directly to the first ranked page for that search phrase. For example: if you type white house in the search box and click on I’m Feeling Lucky, Google will take you directly to www.whitehouse.gov.


To make it to the top of the page rank, Google positions websites according to link popularity and text matching. So if a site has excellent content, a lot of people have linked to it, and it matches your search terms, then Google will deliver it to you in the top 10. This gives it the “high” page rank.

Glogster.EDU

For the past several months, I have been experimenting with Glogster for Education.


http://edu.glogster.com/

So far, I have found this to be a valuable resource for the students who have already mastered PowerPoint and are now looking for a new creative way to express themselves or share research information. This site allows them to do just that.

So what is Glogster edu and how is it different? Glogster edu offers a teacher controlled or monitored environment for students to host and create an online interactive poster that can be shared publicly or privately. This site enables students to add text, web links, photos, graphics, audio, and even video.

It offers students a way to release their creativity through manipulating multi-media content into a online presentation.

By signing up for an educational account you will be able to add up to 100 students per account, edit/add/delete those accounts as needed, converse with your students via an internal email, and share comments about each other’s glogs. The glogs you and your students create can be posted publicly or privately and even embedded into a wiki, blog or website.

Once you have registered, you will receive an email with all the important account information for each student. The email will contain a random generated username and password for each student. It will also contain a URL for each student to use when logging in for the first time. Once logged in you or your student can change their screen name as well as their site assigned password, but their login/username will stay same.

Now, you are ready to have your students begin the exciting world of glogging. Below I have listed some ways you can use glogs in your classroom:

Getting to know you Book reviews Timelines Persuasion posters Public service announcements Visual literacy Student-created poems with graphical representation Student website Debates

For additional resources check out my wiki at: https://etreats.pbworks.com/