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Class Project- AlgebraToo wikispace

The implementation of my AlgebraToo Wikispace has 5 phases. Before the assignment on chapter 2 was assigned students had a silly assignment designed to teach them how to use the technology. Students created Flipbooks or Animotos that depicted their favorite or least favorite food. By having my students create an animation about food they were learning how to use these two new technologies. I did not want my students to get frustrated with the technology and thus, have a content lacking Chapter 2 assignment.
 * Pre Phase 1**

When I started on this journey I chose two of my Algebra II classes to create a Flipbook or Animoto to represent individual student learning on four given topics from chapter 2. The four topics were
 * Phase 1 Introduce technology as an alternate assessment to a written test**
 * 1) How do you find the vertex of an absolute value equation?
 * 2) How do you find two other points of an absolute value?
 * 3) How do you graph a linear equation in slope- intercept form?
 * 4) How does an inequality change the graph of an absolute value or linear equation?

Students created an animation and reflected on their experiences creating this product. They then turned in their assignments through email. I then posted each student's assignment to the wiki for all to benefit from each other's creativity and understanding. This assignment was a portion of the chapter 2 assessment. The original assessment ([|ch2 test.pdf] ) had two multi-step questions one that broke down writing an equation of a perpendicular line and the other on graphing absolute value equations. As I continue to incorporate technological tools into my teaching practice, I wanted students to have the opportunity to edit and re-edit their products. The current project reflects this objective, as students will be creating a concept map using Mindmeister.

I chose one of the previous two classes to continue this chapter 3 project with. Recently, I modeled and gave written instructions to this class on how to join and post their concept map to the wiki. By December 17th, my period 7 day 1 students will each post a concept map showing the relations and steps to solving systems of equations and inequalities. This map will later be edited in Mindmeister to add new information as the chapter continues. Maps will be re-posted, discussed and assessed. (While concept maps must be shrunk to fit on the wikispace, students will still be able to zoom-in and view all information.)
 * Phase 2 Become members and learn to post to the wikispace**

Over the holiday break this class will comment on their classmates' concept maps (much like we were asked to comment on each other's blogs for MEDU600 ). Students will make these comments using the Discussion feature on the wikispace. Comments will each be assessed based on a [|comment rubric.pdf]
 * Phase 3 Comment on other's projects using "discussion" feature**

This wikispace will be revisited by the classes posting to it to prepare for tests and quizzes throughout the marking period and school year. It will also be made available for my other Algebra II classes to help them better understand concepts. I would also like to use this year's products as teaching aids for next year's class. By collecting the best, most creative, and most accurate products possible and sharing these products with future students I hope to enrich student learning.
 * Phase 4 Use the wikispace as a tool to study from and learn from in future years**

As I become more comfortable implementing these technologies in my classroom I want to have more of my classes completing alternative assessments and using the wikispace. I would like this wikispace to become an extension of my classroom. Ideally, my students will use the wikispace as they would their textbooks and notebooks.
 * Phase 5 Integrate technology and wikispaces into more classes**

AlgebraToo wikispace

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