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By M.D-D.
Class started with us walking up to the door and to our surprise we saw Ms. Karis! She handed us a rubric which read at the top “Edmodo Posting Rubric”. We quickly took our seats and read over the rubric. She then gave us the instructions to find an edmodo response that we posted to reply to the discussion leaders’ questions. She gave us 5 minutes, which I thought was a bit too much time, to go and read over our response and grade ourselves on the rubric. Oh and before we did that I forgot to mention that we had to do all this with a partner! The next thing we did was very intriguing because it was a class discussion. We were going around the classroom discussing our ideas as to how we can make our edmodo responses even better than before.
After that Ms. Karis holds up a hand out which has exemplar edmodo responses that got perfect grades and she reads two of them aloud. There are about 5 edmodo responses all over the back and front of the sheet and she has given the class the task of looking through the hand out to find the two sentences that she said aloud! Personally the challenge seemed easy at first but as I looked over the sheet I noticed that the edmodo responses took up almost half the page! I did not have the luxury of being able to say that I found the sentences but one of my classmates who sits across from me at my table found the sentences Ms. Karis challenged us to find.
Finally to wrap class up the lesson took a fun turn in a different direction, Ms. Karis asked us to stand up and play simon says! First she asked us to do jumping jacks and then we had to try and touch the ceiling, which no one did. Then she asked the whole class to skywrite somewhat challenging words like criteria. After that we sat down she asked us to read all the exemplar edmodo responses and review the sheet and highlight the spots in the edmodo responses that show where the author used these criteria. At my table all three of my peers finished the assignment with some challenges but in the end they finished. Finally this lesson is important to our learning because it tells us how we can become better learners and how we can improve our edmodo response grades so we can get higher grades in this class. This lesson is connected to social studies because by learning how to create better responses and by doing that we can better understand and comprehend the topic we are learning in class and therefore have a larger knowledge of history and the past.
Homework:
DUE TOMORROW: Rescore your own edmodo response by the criteria in the rubric with a different color than the one you used in class on the rubric.
Class started with us walking up to the door and to our surprise we saw Ms. Karis! She handed us a rubric which read at the top “Edmodo Posting Rubric”. We quickly took our seats and read over the rubric. She then gave us the instructions to find an edmodo response that we posted to reply to the discussion leaders’ questions. She gave us 5 minutes, which I thought was a bit too much time, to go and read over our response and grade ourselves on the rubric. Oh and before we did that I forgot to mention that we had to do all this with a partner! The next thing we did was very intriguing because it was a class discussion. We were going around the classroom discussing our ideas as to how we can make our edmodo responses even better than before.
After that Ms. Karis holds up a hand out which has exemplar edmodo responses that got perfect grades and she reads two of them aloud. There are about 5 edmodo responses all over the back and front of the sheet and she has given the class the task of looking through the hand out to find the two sentences that she said aloud! Personally the challenge seemed easy at first but as I looked over the sheet I noticed that the edmodo responses took up almost half the page! I did not have the luxury of being able to say that I found the sentences but one of my classmates who sits across from me at my table found the sentences Ms. Karis challenged us to find.
Finally to wrap class up the lesson took a fun turn in a different direction, Ms. Karis asked us to stand up and play simon says! First she asked us to do jumping jacks and then we had to try and touch the ceiling, which no one did. Then she asked the whole class to skywrite somewhat challenging words like criteria. After that we sat down she asked us to read all the exemplar edmodo responses and review the sheet and highlight the spots in the edmodo responses that show where the author used these criteria. At my table all three of my peers finished the assignment with some challenges but in the end they finished. Finally this lesson is important to our learning because it tells us how we can become better learners and how we can improve our edmodo response grades so we can get higher grades in this class. This lesson is connected to social studies because by learning how to create better responses and by doing that we can better understand and comprehend the topic we are learning in class and therefore have a larger knowledge of history and the past.
Homework:
DUE TOMORROW: Rescore your own edmodo response by the criteria in the rubric with a different color than the one you used in class on the rubric.