LL11- Instructional Strategies and Technology Integration
2. Summarizing and Note Taking
I would use Kidspiration which is a mind mapping tool. This allows students to visually represent ideas and their connections. It also allows them to condense large chunks of information into a aesthetically pleasing form. This can be used with story lines in language arts, in math for equations, in science for experiment results, as well as for many other subjects. This promotes greater understanding and
comprehension because the students themselves organize their ideas. This software also allows students to choose icons for each node, which can help them to create a visual representation for each topic within their mindmap.
6. Cooperative Learning
I would do cooperative learning through the program called skype. In class we veiwed a youtube video about a girl name Celeste. In this video it shows a student who wouldn’t normally have been able to enter this specific classroom without the use of skype. This program can be futher used to collaborate in world studies and language classes in order to talk to other students with different world veiws and languages. Although the use of this program is not in person, it is face-to-face in a way.
7. Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
In order to utilize students ability to improve their own work, I would use a class wiki or a blog. Students can give feedback 
to one another, in addition to a teacher or parent having access to give feedback. Wikis and blogs put the power in students hands to be able to share their work and give them a sense of independence (although content will be reviewed before posting). The objectives would be posted on the course wiki in order to create an easy way to find out what the teacher expects and feedback for written works (located on the blog) would be posted on each students blog individually.
