Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Re: Lesson Plans DB/Electronic Portfolio

What will be the motivation for teachers to contribute to it and to look up
lesson plans in it, beyond the concept sounding like a great idea now? A
simple depository/reference site will die unless it has great meaning. Are
teachers actively searching lesson plans on the Internet and through other
sources so that this will give them a local source? Will the school require
that teachers file lesson and unit plans? Identifying the motivation will
help with defining the site.

Another point to consider is whether this is part of your plan to document
and map a curriculum, which is bigger picture, or if it is just to share
lesson plans.

Since your school uses Wikispaces, would that be a viable alternative?
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Derrel Fincher
Director of Information and Communication Technology
Graded - The American School of S=E3o Paulo
http://www.graded.br | (55 11) 3747-4800 x160


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Poole, Aeronia <apoole@madeira.org> wrote:

> We want to design a database/electronic portfolio that is a depository
> for teacher lesson plans and is to be used as a reference for teachers
> in the future. For example, if an English teacher has done a lesson on
> the Odyssey, then a Latin teacher could go into the portfolio to see
> what type of lessons the English department (and other disciplines) have
> done on the Odyssey.
>
> Has anyone implemented such a resource and if so, what applications do
> you recommend?
>
>
> Aeronia L. Poole
> Educational Technology Specialist
> & Smartboard Certified Trainer
> The Madeira School
> 703.556.8350
> http://madeiraetc.wikispaces.com/
>
>
>

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