Hello, everyone, and welcome back from my blogging break! I'm excited to share some new details with you about what students will be completing in class over the course of the two weeks that we will be studying the Renaissance in Italy. We will spend those two weeks almost entirely in the computer lab (or with the computer/iPad carts!) and everyone will be working in pairs on a set of tasks that will make them Renaissance experts. By following directions and completing two assessments (with lots of help from online experts in video and in print along the way), your student will become not only knowledgeable about politics, economics, intellect and the arts, but also more tech-savvy. These skills will serve them well for the rest of their academic and post-academia careers.
One task that everyone will accomplish is to create their own Prezis. If you go to prezi.com, you can take a look at some sample presentations. This presentation software is fantastic... and mobile! No more forgetting the jump drive that your powerpoint is on and having a panic attack. Students will also have certain elements that they will be asked to embed into their Prezis (for instance, a youtube video and images).
Another task that all students will complete is the creation of an assessment for the rest of their classmates to take after having done the WebQuest and created their Prezis. This is something that each student pair will turn in (with an answer key!). They can create a test or quiz, a graphic organizer, an essay prompt, an assignment for creating a poster, or any other way they can think of to test their classmates' knowledge. That said, students will really be reaching to the top of Bloom's Taxonomy as they make their way through these WebQuests, first learning about and understanding what the Renaissance was, then beginning to apply and analyze it via their Prezis, and finally creating their very own assessment about the topic to evaluate someone else's understanding.
I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!
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