PE: Final Project: Mind42.com

Final Project Planning - RILS Planning

Target Audience – Senior English Students.

Materials – Laptop Connected to Projects (computers for all students if possible), Internet access, Mind42.com.

Objectives – To create a mind map, as a class with student participation, of the material we read in class and the themes we discuss linked to outside sites that will enhance the learning to these. The Mind Map will be used through the year and/or as a review session before exams.

Procedure – during class, I will set up the basic shell of the mind map to each main text we read in class, students will review by telling me the themes. Once the basic mind map is in place, I will have the students (in the computer lab) work together to expand on the mind map by adding links, images, plot lines, addition text examples. So by the end class, we will have created a completed, interactive mind map that they can access anywhere they have internet access.

Web 2.0 Tool – Mind42.com.

Social Participation/Social Learning – The students will be interacting with the tool and with each other to add as many additions as possible.

Making Connections – The students will access prior knowledge by review the basics of what we learned in class but then through this lesson they will research and collaborate to expand the mind map that will ultimately be their study guide at exam time.

Create/Produce - The end product will be the class mind map

Reflection – I will have the students write an exit ticket on what they thought of the experience after they immediately do it. Then at exam time I will have them reflect on the usefulness this lesson and this tool had on their learning.

The class has all the steps except the reflection. On Monday, I will give them time to finalize any part of the mind map and then the groups will present what they did, to the class and then they will do the reflection at the end. I was actually shocked at the amount of effort I got from them in working with this tool. There were all working together, I am not used to seeing an entire class collaborate on a project. I think I am on to something here.