LNekola

= Type your goals below for the 09-10 School Year and use this area to also reflect on your progress towards achieving these goals. =

1. Develop the Explore feature of the Alex database to help students find various genre books in their own Lexile range 2. Increase student, parent and faculty awareness and use of the online databases purchased by the LRC

= Please share a successful technology integrated lesson this year. (You can definitely share more than 1 if you like!) = = //(Please follow the format below)// =
 * Your Name and Team and Subject Area:** Laura Nekola - LRC
 * Lesson Plan:** Wordle Book Visual Summaries -

Students read a Rebecca Caudill book of their choice and compiled a list of descriptive words and phrases that described the themes, conflicts, life choices, and main ideas of the text. These words and phrases were then inserted into the Wordle program to create a graphic word cloud. The students then printed their word cloud and I used their images to promote the Rebecca Caudill books to the rest of the students through a bulletin board in the LRC
 * Reflections:** //(How would you change the lesson, what went right, what would you change?)//Type in the content of your page here.

The students were not especially engaged by the Rebecca Caudill selection of books. I think I would modify this lesson by selecting literature that has more student appeal. The students enjoyed the Wordle creation phase of the project but I thik it is essential that they spend quite a bit of time composing their list of words and phrases before they use the program as they will be distracted by choosing font styles and shapes once they begin to create their clouds.