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 * < ==**Promoting a Collaborative Classroom Environment **== ||
 * ===Trainer: Melanie Doucette=== ||  ||   ||
 * ===Subject(s) of the day's workshop===

Creating a collaborative learning environment with the use of technology. |||||| **Prerequisite Knowledge **

Creating a Voki and recording corresponding audio Creating surveys using Google Forms, SurveyMonkey, and SMART Response Clickers ||
 * == Content (Describe in a paragraph) ==

Collaborative learning has proven very beneficial to student learning. When faced with content that many learners may find challenging, such as Algebra, building positive relationships among the students at the earliest stages of the class is essential. The activities you will take part in today are general and do not require content specific prior knowledge. For this reason, all of the ideas presented today could be used in any classes where teachers are looking to develop an atmosphere where their students are comfortable with one another and thus easily transition into cooperative assignments. ||
 * **List the objectives for this lesson **


 * 1) Participants will complete collaborative activities.
 * 2) Participants will be able to develop collaborative activities.
 * 3) Participants will be able to implement collaboration promoting activities in the classes they teach.
 * 4) Participants will effectively use technology to accomplish objectives one through four. ||
 * **How will you teach the lesson. Details help. **

Icebreaker Activity

Upon entering the workshop participants will each be given an index card that is one of two different colors, red or blue. They will then be asked to pair up with someone with an index card that does not match theirs. This will divide the group up into a series of pairs.

The pairs will then be asked to log on to one computer per pair and watch the sample Voki the trainer has created. The Voki gives three statements about the trainer. Two of the statements are true and one is false. A few of the groups will be asked to share which of the three statements they think is false and then the trainer will confirm which statement is in fact false.

Each of the members of the pair will then independently create a similar Voki that represents who they are. They will record three statements about themselves for their Voki to repeat, one false and two true. Once the Voki’s are created each pair will listen to their partner’s Voki and guess which statement is false. The pairs can then create a group of four by matching up with another pair. Each pair can view the Vokis of the other pair and again guess which of the statements is false.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Finally, as a group of four the participants will create one last Voki. This Voki will share four statements; one statement is true for each of the group members. Each group will then present their Voki to the entire workshop. Everyone, including the trainer, will try to guess which person the statements are true for.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Personality Survey Activity

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Trainer will first present a short (twenty minutes max) informational session using Google docs. This session will focus on the educational benefits associated with assessing your students’ personalities and learning styles. The key ideas of the session will convey that teachers should administer a personality test to their students within the first week of classes each year. This will ensure that they can then use the resulting data to plan lessons and activities that are tailored to their students’ needs. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">The following websites will be referenced in this presentation:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Personality <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Learning Style <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">At the conclusion of the trainer’s presentation, participants will again team up with their group of four that was established in the opening activity. In their groups, participants will develop a student learning style and personality survey.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Group members must collaboratively agree on a series of questions to include in the survey they create.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">They must then design this survey using Google forms, SurveyMonkey, or the SMART response system.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Once each of the groups has created a survey they must administer their survey to another group in the workshop and collect any resulting data.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">After survey data has been collected the groups must find a way to analyze this data. The end goal here is for the groups to come to a consensus as to the best ways to use this information when planning future lessons and activities.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Closure Activity

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">The trainer will bring the workshop back together as one cohesive group. The trainer has created a best practices page on the workshop Wiki. On this page there is a section dedicated to the various uses of personality and learning style surveys. All of the participants are asked to log on to a computer and add something to this section of the Wiki. What they add to the Wiki can be anything they have done before or something they learned at today’s workshop that they will implement. This Wiki of best practices will then become a resource the participants can use after the workshop is over. They are also encouraged to report back on how practices they were going to implement in the future actually worked out. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Additional materials you will use and how will you use them **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Google docs for presentation purposes, Google forms as a survey tool, websites: [|www.SurveyMonkey.com], [|www.voki.com], SMART response systems, red and blue index cards, workshop Wiki ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Evaluation **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The responses each of the participants makes on the best practices page of the workshop Wiki will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the day 1 workshop. ||

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