I got this from our newly minted Teacher of the Year in his district in CA, Don Read:
Hi Ben,
Here is a link to a presentation I prepared based on Sabrina’s Etoile du Jour.
Best,
Don
https://docs.google.com/a/moraga.k12.ca.us/presentation/d/1EIMO7PHOEK9LxLkhv_CNGJLWW0qCqIcctCq5htUeoyE/edit?usp=sharing
This particular link is fantastic. It’s potential in the first weeks of the year is off the chart. This is what we want: everybody comes up with a Visual PQA slide presentation on whatever targets (Julie started this work) or they can come up with one that does what Don’s does here, give us Star of the Week question sets (we now have two of those – Sabrina’s and Don’s).
Ruth and I have decided to only put ultra clear slide show presentations up. Our Google folder is going to have hundreds of these and our main goal at this point is to make sure that the slide shows have the taxonomy piece in them that we see in Julie’s, and that the folder is navigable.
Ruth and I are thinking that three things need to be addressed in organizing this lesson plan Visual PQA/Star of the Week cache:
1. whether it is a Visual PQA or a Star of the Week slide show.
2. what the structures in the slide show are. (When selecting a lesson plan, the teacher has to be able to see the three target structures without having to click on the link provided.)
3. They also need to be arranged in terms of language groups. That is to say, we will put the original slide show (Don’s is in French, Julie’s are in Spanish, for example) in the appropriate language folder/section of the site, but then by making a copy of the slide show any teacher can then put it into some other language, and then somehow get them back to Ruth or me to be added to the site.
Obviously it’s still a work in progress and each answer creates more questions. Most of the group hasn’t even seen Julie’s slides yet. (Trust me, you want them.) We’ll try to work out the details relative to the three points made above as we go along.
Thank you to all who have contributed so far. If we each did just one of these on various targets, we would soon have over 300 Visual PQA/Star of the Week lesson plans available at our finger tips. We could even ask Anne or Jim to write story scripts for them.
What we are doing here right now is pretty badass.