Week 7 - Do You Google?

For the technology project this week I created a lesson plan on "Famous Texans" to use for 4th grade Texas History. I decided to use Blogger, a Google Sites wiki, and Google Search. Students will research, respond to prompts on a response blog, and create a summary of information about a famous Texan to add to a class wiki. I chose these Google Apps because I felt they were simple enough to use with students who may not have had much computer experience, without taking up a lot of instructional time. I would also have students work in groups on projects like this so that they learn from each other as well.

I think this is a type of lesson that students will enjoy. There are many different parts to it, so students aren't just doing research and writing a report.

I do view instruction differently than I did at the beginning of this class. I see every week that there are so many ways to include technology. Actually thinking out a lesson plan this week showed me that it is not difficult to include technology once you have a good variety of tools and apps available to use.