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Day 1 Overview:
Today participants will review what Edline is and the benefits of the Edline program for their classes. Participants will learn how to create rigorous multiple choice and paragraph answer assignments on Edline to improve students’ critical thinking skills and achievement. Participants will have time to practice skills they learned in the computer lab and will be able to add the products they created on their own Edline class pages.

Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
 * Increase their understanding of the Edline online system is and how it can be effectively used in enhancing student engagement and achievement (through e-learning opportunities).
 * Create and effectively use the interactive features of Edline.
 * Create assignments that improve students’ critical thinking skills.

Prerequisites:
Please read the //Blended Learning: Where Online and Face-to-Face Instruction Intersect for 21st Century Teaching and Learning // article found in the Prerequisite & Resources page of this wiki.

Materials:

 * A computer with internet access for each of the participants
 * SMART board and SMART notebook
 * Access to the shared G: drive
 * Each teacher will need to be able to access their individual storage on the H: drive or have a flash drive
 * Edline ID and password

Day 1 Schedule:
8:30-9:45 9:45-10:00 10:00-11:05 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">11:05-11:20 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">11:20-12:30 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">12:30
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Introductions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Outline the course & today’s objectives and activities
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Discussion of prerequisite article and the benefits of Edline, an LMS system.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Review of the Basics of Edline: The participants will be led through a presentation of the features discussed in the Edline for Beginners course and ask the participants. There will be a discussion of questions about these features.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Discussion: Participants will read an article by Robert H. Ennis called: Critical Thinking Assessment. Based on the article and their own experiences in teaching, participants will engage in a discussion based on the questions below in class
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">What makes an assignment rigorous?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">What features of an assignment make students engage in critical thinking?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">What are the steps to creating an assignment that engages and improves students’ critical thinking skills?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">How can these ideas be applied to online interactive assignments in Edline?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Break
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Tutorials & Practice # 1: Multiple Choice Feature:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Through progressive displays using the SMART notebook software, the instructor will show how to create and add a multiple choice assignment that can have one correct answer and created and add a multiple choice assignment that can have multiple correct answers.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The instructor will give a lecture on how to create and add a multiple choice assignment that can have one correct answer and created and add a multiple choice assignment that can have multiple correct answers using the progressive displays. A handout showing the progressive displays with the procedures next to the graphics will be included in the notes packet passed out at the beginning of class.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The participants will have time to create and post at least two multiple choice quizzes that engage students in critical thinking skills, one of each type of multiple choice assignment. The instructor will go around helping participants with questions and reminding them to create questions that engage students in critical thinking skills.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Before we move onto the next topic, the instructor will ask participants to either share their work with the class or a fellow participant close by sharing and filling out the evaluation form. When participants share with the class, the class will evaluate if the questions are engaging students in critical thinking skills. This will also be a time when participants can ask questions before moving onto the next topic.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Break
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Tutorials & Practice # 2: Paragraph Answer Feature
 * Through progressive displays using the SMART notebook software, the instructor will show how to create and add a paragraph answer assignment.
 * The instructor will give a lecture on how to create and add a paragraph answer assignment using the progressive displays. A handout showing the progressive displays with the procedures next to the graphics will be included in the notes packet passed out at the beginning of class.
 * The instructor will then give the participants time to create and post at least two paragraph answer assignments that engage students in critical thinking skills, one of each type of quiz. The instructor will go around helping participants with questions and reminding them to create questions that engage students in critical thinking skills.
 * The instructor will teach participants how to view, grade, and give feedback to multiple choice and paragraph answer assignments completed by students through progressive displays using the SMART notebook software.
 * Before we move onto the next topic, the instructor will ask participants to either share their work with the class or a fellow participant close by sharing and filling out the evaluation form. When participants share with the class, the class will evaluate if the questions are engaging students in critical thinking skills. This will also be a time when participants can ask questions before moving onto the next topic.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Debrief & Evaluations:
 * Before wrapping up for the day, the instructor will ask for more examples from the participants to show the class. The participants will go through the steps to show how they created and added multiple choice quizzes and paragraph answers assignments to their Edline pages.
 * The instructor will ask if there are any questions about Edline and will answer them.
 * The participants will complete a short survey regarding the activities of the day before they leave.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Discuss the homework assignment for the next class
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dismissal

Day 1 Evaluation:
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Please complete the Day 1 survey given by the instructor or print out the survey here.

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