Initial Project Ideas

My project idea is to create a website that goes along with a curriculum with resources included to help students learn more effectively. I don't have a classroom of my own, however, my mom is a teacher at a local middle school and she is very interested in having this type of project implemented in her class. I have recently found a lot of interesting ways to introduce and implement technology into a classroom. Some that I liked involved using videos and digital cameras to record the students teaching their own lesson or making their own projects to show what they have learned. Something that I am interested is having the students "show what they know" so that I can gauge how well they really learned and how deep the learning actually took place. I think that with the group that I will be working with, middle schoolers, it will also be interesting to see how motivated they are to actually do well. I've learned that a great way to see if students have learned is to have them teach the subject matter themselves. I'd like to find a way to make this a major focus in my project.

As far as the subject matter goes, I think that I will use a section or lesson that comes from their extensive unit on grammar and have them create an interactive game or webquest on their own and then walk the class through the game, teaching them how to play it as the assessment.