Week+7

= __**Week 7**__ =

**__Team Roles__**

Facilitator- Erika Reporter- Mark Coach- Maria Resource Manager-Hilliary

3/11-(Erika)Thanks guys! I appreciate it!

3/10 (Maria) I posted the link to our Google Doc lesson plan. Erika, I also just posted feedback to your project! Thanks!
3/10-(Erika) The UDL lesson looks pretty complete to me. The only comment left is the one about adding a link back to the beginning. Maria did you still want to do that? It seems our rationale might clear up that question. I wasn't sure what everyone else thought. If everyone could just do one more read through, that would be great. Just let me know on here if you have any other concerns. Otherwise I'll post it tomorrow afternoon to the UDL team assignment forum, or whatever the place is called where we are to turn it in. Thanks for all your hard work! P.S. I posted my E-learning initiative to the Peer Review Folder under our Team Spaces Discussion Forum. If you get any "free time" I'd love to hear your feedback!

3/4 Erika- I posted a blog and wiki in the resource page. The wiki had alot of strategies for how to incorporate our principle 1 into the classroom.

3/5 Team- Everyone participated in a a synchronous Skype session for 50 minutes about the topic, design, presentation, and specific ideas for our UDL lesson presentation for week 7.
3/5 (Maria) Following is a link to the Google Doc with our notes from tonight's call. Right now, anyone with the link can edit. Do you think I should change that after we share? I wouldn't want anyone to make an edit by mistake. But, I would also want them to be able to have the lesson if they want it. Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks!

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3/5 (Hilliary) I went ahead and put the lesson template into a google doc. I started filling in a few sections. Hopefully this will help get us started! We can probably copy and paste from Maria's notes and then fill in the holes. My template also had a seperate section for differentiation so I thought we could specifically address how we were differentiating for the different types of learners in that section. Let me know what you think! Just an FYI, I have a meeting until 8:30 tomorrow night so I probably won't be on again until Wed. I will peek in and respond to any pressing issues if needed. Maria- I think either way is fine. I think I have this one set up so that anybody who has the link can view it. That might be better, atleast until the week is over! I also listed you all as editors.

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3/6 (Mark) - I found a link to a great resource page for math instruction ideas using UDL for ELL learners.

@http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/30570/

3/6 (Erika) I have filled in alot of the Google Doc Template. Feel free to make any changes or add something. I'm just putting down what first came to my mind. Also, do we want to explain what is happening in the small group lessons, and then just write a rationale for how it fits the UDL principle for the different groups of students?

3/6 (Mark) Oh my goodness Erika you are SO fast. the template looks great so far. A question? Under small groups we have Reteach, On-Grade, and Above Grade categories but under Differentiation we have ELL students, Special Needs students, and Gifted Students. Where do the ELL students fit into the Small Groups? I was going to add some strategies for the ELL students but not sure where to put them. Any thoughts?

3/6 (Erika) Mark-The ELL kids in a regular class might fit into any leveled group we would not want to group them just because English is not their main language and assume they are below. I know I have ELL kids in all 3 groups, for our purposes I would just assume they are on or below grade level. We could work in some strategies for how we could work with those kids in the small groups for On or Below grade level. Then I was thinking we would justify those strategies in a rationale for ELL under that part of the lesson explanation. So in the small group section we would explain the strategy for teaching and then I was thinking at the bottom ELL part we would explain how it fits their needs. Does that make sense?

3/6 (Mark) Yes that makes sense. thanks.

3/6 (Maria) Hi All, I made some comments in the lesson. Great start, Erika and thanks, Hilliary for sharing!

Also, I sent an email yesterday regarding our final project. I'm reposting here below: Will you please take a look and let me know if you have the same issue with the links?

All of the links for the activities are setup. I tested the links and all of them work except the last one when we ask them to post to the Podcasting Reflections. I received this message: You must have a valid PIN to access this portion of the site. ( I was already signed into the ELC).

Would you all please click the links and let me know if the problem is just on my end or if we need to let Donna know? I would rather send her one email after we've all had a chance to test the link and sign-off on the Word doc. Thanks so much!

3/7 (Mark) I added some rationale under Differentiation for the ELL students. I am researching tips and manipulatives for teaching elementary ELL math students. It's really fascinating.

3/7 Maria-I'm not sure where you want me to click the link, do you mean in the project, or on this wiki? Also, I saw your comments and made some adjustments and also added a comment for you guys to read. We just need to tighten everything up and make sure now the rationale matches the small group instruction. Mark-I'm glad you are enjoying the topic!

3/7 You guys are super speedy! The lesson plan looks gret so far. I added a few comments and made a couple of change. I think we shoulld say tablet pc instead of iPad because many of the web 2.0 tools (the virtual minioulatives) are not compatible with the iPad. Also I don't know if pixie is available on a tablet...do we want the above kids to use laptops for their project? Let me know what you think! Thank you for all of your hard work!

3/7 Erika- Hillary, I think we should look at the pc tablets as a separate entity to the lessons. After the whole group they can use the computer for their small group follow up.

3/7 (Maria) Hi-I just responded to everyone in Mark's email, but the doc is on the ELC in our Team section, Week 6: Revised Version. Donna attached the doc and asked for our feedback. We then started responding to her in an email thread. Please take a look and I will send to her tomorrow. Thanks!

3/7 (Hilliary) Erika- That sounds good to me. I think that makes sense. Maria- I tried the link to the discussion forum within the word doc and got the same error message as you. I wonder if its because its not quite active yet??? I don't know. If it won't work, I think people will be able to find where to post their discussion response without a direct link.

3/8 (Mark) I figured out the link problem for the Podcast Reflections site. It asks for a pin because the students are going directly there without logging in to ELC again (Seems like a glitch). BUT here's the solution. The pin they must enter is the one that Donna gave us the first week of class to login to ELC. It's "2012ELEARN". I put that in where it asked for the pin and it went right to the ELC discussion page and lets the user access the Podcast Reflections discussion site and add threads. We probably need to add that information to the WORD document. Something like this:

Upload your response as a new thread into the [|Podcast Reflections] Discussion Forum ** (when asked for the pin enter "2012ELEARN") ** to share with all students

3/9 (Maria)-Hi All, The UDL lesson looks great! I resolved some of the comments that I made that were addressed. I thought about adding Checkpoints and Guidelines, but then thought against it. There is so much overlap and that may just not be necessary. Please feel free to resolve or delete the other comments. I didn't want to remove them until everyone else had a chance to do their final review. Thanks!