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**Week Five Module: Sunday, April 10 - Saturday, April 16** ======

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RI Unit of Study assignment: Complete the following sections of the Unit of Study: Rubrics and performance assessments. **Your instructor will provide feedback so you can make revisions prior to uploading your completed Unit.**  ======

Technology Assignment 1: Tools to help with writing: Graphic Organizers.
==Create a digital graphic organizer using one of the tools listed below. Option 1: Showcase the technology tools you have used as a part of this RITTI online course, OR Option 2: Create a digital graphic organizer connected to your unit of study. Upload the finished product to your personal website. ==

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Examples of online graphic organizers include but are not limited to: ======
 * ======Inspiration, NOT FREE but you can download a 30 day trial to a computer. ======
 * ======__Webspiration__ NOT FREE but you can use a 30 day trial ======
 * ======[|Popplet] ======
 * ======Mindmeister ======
 * [|ExploraTree]
 * ======Wisemapping ======
 * ======[|LucidChart] ======
 * ======Holt Graphic Organizers: a collection of PDF documents you can use. If you use one of these graphic organizers, print and complete the document. Take a picture with your document camera (IPEVO) and upload the image to your website. ======

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 * Technology Assignment 2: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Using one of the writing tools listed below, create a product you could currently use with your students or your Unit of Study. Upl <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">oad the finished product to your personal website. ======

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Tools to help with writing: Written publications** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Many of the tools listed in previous modules can be used for writing as well. Please use the examples listed below for your second technology assignment. ======
 * ======<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Tagxedo] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes -into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. Tagxedo FAQ Tagxedo Tutorial ======
 * ======<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Wordle] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. 38 interesting ways to use Wordle in your Classroom How to save a Wordle ======
 * ======<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Tagul] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Tagul clouds are designed to be used on blogs, web pages or any kind of sites as a replacement of ordinary tag clouds. Tagul is a web service that enables you to create gorgeous tag clouds. Each tag in Tagul cloud is linked with an URL and is “clickable” that enables visitors to use it for navigation. Tagul has some features that Wordle doesn’t, like custom shapes selection and multiple fonts usage in one cloud. Tagul Tutorial ======
 * ======<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|WordSift] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text, with the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators. WordSift has also been integrated with Visual Thesaurus and Google image and video search. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text. ======
 * ======<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Word Mosaic] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Write a comment or poem in the shape of hearts or other symbols. ======
 * ======<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__[|Toon Doo]__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a few clicks, drag and drop and you have a comic. ======
 * ======<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__[|Comic Creator,]__ The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on). ======
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make Beliefts: Create your own Comix Strip - can write in different languages!
 * ======<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__[|Tika Tok book publishing]__Create a book by uploading images. View online, embed and send via email. ======
 * ======<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Brochure Maker Create and print a brochure or flyer in minutes. ======

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Discussion Forum Posts:** ======
 * ======<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Discussion forum 9**: Identify two different types of technology new to you this week. Provide at least three detailed examples of how you might incorporate each of these technologies with your students. ======
 * ======<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Discussion forum 10**: You have reviewed a variety of technology tools. Discuss how you plan to incorporate at least ONE of these technologies in your classroom in September. How will this technology change your teaching? How will this technology change your classroom? ======