EDU 276 LEARNING LOG
Name: Megan Camillo
Class Activities/Primary Work
September 15, 2008:
• Review syllabus.
• UDL simulation quiz for
passage read in class.
September 22, 2008:
• Broke into home base groups
for a jigsaw activity.
• Pick out a chapter to be an
expert on for the project.
• Watched a DI video and became
an expert in area (my group
focused on anchor activities).
• Learn how to use Auto
summary on Microsoft Word
and Flesch-Kincaid Reading
Level.
• Learn about zamzar.com to
convert to PDF or revert back to
original document.
September 29, 2008:
• Meet in home base groups and
finalize what we are going to
teach about anchor activities.
• Broke into groups to discuss the
six strategies for DI and taught
about anchor activities.
• Created a question about DI to
post a power point on the Wiki
using scribd.com.
Work Submitted/Due
• Ticket #2 was submitted in class.
• Submitted ticket #3 to the Wiki in
class.
• Sign up for at least one educational
blog from session 3 on ANGEL
that has an RSS feed.
• Ticket #3 submitted to Wiki.
• DI assignment completed prior to
class.
• For next class read chapters 1, 5
and 9, complete the Info Lit follow
up activity, and take the DI quiz
(create your own format) from
class.
• Hand in tickets 4 and 5 (DI quiz
and website evaluation).
• Make sure that power point of DI
question is posted.
• For next class complete UDL
homework on ANGEL.
Next Steps (on my own, in professional development,
to extend work done in and for class)
• Work on my RSS skills (finding RSS feeds and getting
accustomed to using them).
• Build upon my delicious.com account. I also need to
explore the site to figure out more about it and how it
works.
• Look up more information about incorporating DI into
the classroom.
• Practice using Auto summary and Flesch-Kincaid
Reading Level on my personal computer.
• Figure out how to use zamzar.com.
• Continue learning about using November Learning tools
to find out information about websites.
• Get myself better acquainted with scribd.com so that I
can use it as a tool in my classroom some day.
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• Went over homework load.
October 6, 2008:
• Discuss presentation project.
• Pick a very specific slice of the
chapter to base our presentation
on.
• Received a task sheet for
organizing the project.
• Explored clusty.com,
surveymonkey.com and
ilighter.com.
October 20, 2008:
• Taught a vocabulary word about
a topic we know well.
• Watched a movie about the
Marzano Method for teaching
vocabulary.
• Teach class about a specific
piece of the method.
• Sign up for trackstar.com,
webposter.com, castbook.com,
and noodlequest.com.
October 27, 2008:
• Learning Log overview.
• Work handed back.
• Two Wiki presentations.
• Lab work on the Wiki’s.
November 3, 2008:
• Housekeeping: questions,
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• Make sure that ticket # 6 (quiz from • Come up with a plan for my project.
surveymonkey.com) is posted. • Practice making quizzes on surveymonkey.com so that I
• Next class is a drop in session in am well versed for the project.
place of class. Come in with any
questions or concerns.
• For next class: • Keep better track of my learning log.
1. Update Learning Log. • Learn more about the Marzano Method for teaching
2. Complete Vocabulary Quiz on vocabulary.
the Wiki.
3. Post to the Vocabulary Page on
the Wiki.
4. Review Chapter 16.
5. Look at alternative sites to
build quizzes online.
6. Complete optional ticket.
• Ticket #7 and #8 due (Vocab • Review more of the tools from the November Learning
posting to Wiki and Vocab post site.
Test). • Learn more about Bloom’s Taxonomy.
• Up to date copy of Learning Log. • Prepare my Wiki page on Teaching Root Words. This
• For next class: will require research about root words and effective
1. Prepare my Wiki page. methods to teach them.
2. Re-do my Web Review (Ticket
#5).
3. Look over Big 6 page on Wiki.
4. Finish Wiki quizzes from
today.
• Submitted two Wiki quizzes from • Learn more about the Big 6 and more strategies to
last week. incorporate them in the classroom.
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comments, concerns.
• Review the Big 6
• Went on “A Walk in the
Woods” virtual field trip.
• Went through materials on Wiki
posted by Dr. Gradel.
• Two Wiki presentations (three
to do in class due to one
absence).
• Discussed ticket resubmissions.
• Lab word on Wiki
presentations.
November 10, 2008:
• Seven Wiki presentations.
• Old ticket rubrics returned.
• Web quest video.
• Video jigsaw.
• Lab work on Wiki
presentations.
November 17, 2008:
• Four Wiki presentations.
• Discussed in class office hours.
• Went over housekeeping. No
exam during exam week.
Discussed procedure for
resubmission of tickets.
• Ticket rubrics were handed
back.
• Went over what to put on e-
portfolio. Reviewed
cinnportfolio.wetpaint.com as
an example.
• Looked over how to use
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• Ticket #9 due (DI Quiz).
• For next class:
1. Look over chapters 12 and 13.
2. Take a screen shot of all
postings to Wiki.
3. Complete Wiki quizzes from
today’s presentations.
4. Look at online virtual field
trips.
• Ticket #10 due (Search Tool
Comparison).
• Three Wiki quizzes.
• For next class:
1. Complete extra credit tickets.
2. Read chapters 4 and 14
3. Choose a Wiki venue to use for
our e-portfolio and open an
account.
• Seven quizzes on Wiki.
• For next class:
1. Review chapters 6 and 20.
2. Work on editing my Wiki page.
3. Begin e-portfolio.
4. Begin to revise old tickets.
• Discover more online resources that can be used to teach
in the classroom (more web quests, virtual resources);
what other types of resources are there?
• Review more reading comprehension strategies and pre-
reading strategies. More techniques will be beneficial to
my career as an early childhood educator.
• Look up what types of things Wiki’s are used for. Are
they only used by educators? What types of people use
them and what do they use them for?
• Learn more about Differentiated Instruction and how to
incorporate it into the classroom. What other types of
methods can be used other than what we have seen in
class?
• Gain a better understanding of tiering assignments and
how it is used when teaching.
• Familiarize myself with altavista.com and begin using it
more regularly.
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altavista.com.
• Lab work on the Wiki’s
presented.
December 1, 2008:
• Four Wiki presentations.
• Reviewed differentiation and
how to incorporate it into our
Wiki’s.
• Learning Log is moving over to
a weight of 2.
• Learned how to copy write
materials.
• Lab work on presented Wiki’s.
December 8, 2008:
• Nine Wiki presentations.
• Our e-portfolio’s are due
Thursday, December 18, 2008
by 11:59pm.
• Submit Learning Log as a PDF
on ANGEL and to our e-
portfolio.
• Used voicethread.com to give a
response to a question posed in
class.
• Lab work on presented Wiki’s.
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• Online version of our housekeeping
list from last week for extra credit
due.
• Four Wiki quizzes due.
• For next class:
1. Complete Wiki quizzes from
today.
2. Work on e-portfolio.
3. Review chapters 10, 15 and 18.
• Four Wiki quizzes due.
• Any revised tickets due.
• For exam week:
1. Turn in all revised tickets and
their rubrics.
2. Complete e-portfolio.
3. Submit Learning Log to
ANGEL as a PDF.
4. Complete Wiki quizzes from
today’s presentations.
• Reflect on my college career and courses taken. What
have I learned? How am I developing professionally
from these courses?
• Familiarize myself with why it is important to copy
write materials that I create and publish online.
• Search for more file conversion sites other than
zamzar.com.
• Search for more sites where students can post entries
vocally. I think that this could be a very useful tool to
use in an early childhood classroom.
• Research more sites that have virtual books that can be
read to students. Bookmark any good sites.
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