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Welcome To Mrs. Woznicki's Genetics Page
Lets learn about why we look the way that we do together!

[|This website will teach you all that you need to know about genetics] I really like being able to embed website onto the Wiki page. I have done this for my unit and it is much easier that that I used to do. Before when I wanted to the students to go to a website I would hand out a paper with a list of sites on them and the students would have to type them in. A lot of time they would type them in wrong and they would not work. With the embedding feature this will not happen. All the student has to do is to click on the link and they will go to the correct site.

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media type="youtube" key="gqvYOr78THo" height="390" width="480"media type="youtube" key="ELVwj5JDfg8" height="390" width="480" I have embedded YouTube videos into my Wiki. I found this to be very easy to do. I like the idea of embedding the videos so that I do not have to go the YouTube site during class to pull them up. I really like YouTube because the site has a lot of great resources to use. However, what may pop up on your screen when you log into the site may not always be appropriate for your students to see. Having the videos imbedded really cuts down on what they are able to see that you have not yet previewed. One thing that I don’t like is that at the end of the video it still suggests different videos that you should watch next. I was really hoping that by embedding the video I was able to get just the video and not all of the suggestions too.

Check out my Edmoto page [] - Here is where I plan on blogging with my students about various topics that we will be studying. During my unit I will use this to blog about different videos that my kids will be making. The students will have to argue whether or not they agree with the group that is presenting. They will have to back up their response with scientific facts that the presenting group will provide. This activity will promote a higher level of thinking through the use of technology. 21st Century Skill Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Easy bib is another tool that I am going to have the students use during their project. It is very important for students to get in a habit of sighting their sources. Easy bib is an internet site that I have found that asks the students a series of questions about the source they are using and puts the information that has been loaded into the system in the correct citation format. []

Check out my google doc. page that I made for my unit. [] This is where my students will interact during their project. I really like the Google doc. because there is only one version of the document so my students do not get confused with which version they are currently working on. 21 Century Skill- Communication and Collaboration and Information Literacy

I also used Google Docs. to post some of my rubrics. The students will self assess using the rubics and this is 21st Century Skill-Initiative and Self-Direction and Productivity and Accountability.

At the beginning of my unit I will assess the students understanding of genetic topics that they will need to know in order to have enough background knowledge to be successful in understanding the content when performing their research on the genetic disorder and prenatal testing. I will assess this knowledge via a Quia quiz. I really liked working with one the Quia website I found that it was easy to add my kids and create classes along with the ease of creating my quiz. After the quiz the results will be projected onto my Smartboard and the results gone over with my students. Here is the screen shots of the quiz that I have made.

During their project the students are going to have to make a flip camera presentation of the information that they have collected and the conclusions that they have drawn. The students are going to down load their flip camera presentation into QuickTime on the school computers. They will then upload the QuickTime video onto the Edmoto site so that it can be shared with their fellow classmates. This is a 21st Century Skill of Creativity and Innovation

[|http://www.livejournal.com] I found this site easy to use to get started. However, I didn’t like that you had to watch an advertisement before you could get to work. That would make me nervous about sending the kids to this site because I would never know the content of the advertisement that would pop up to have them watch.

[|http://pbworks.com] I think that this would be good to have students build their own pages of different topics that we are studying to develop student centered learning.

http://chatzy.com I really like how there is no registration for students that I want to be in the chat. I find that before a test I receive a lot of e-mails from students that have questions. I think that this would be nice to be available to them for an hour before the test so that I can answer all questions that they have. I also think that it would be a good way for groups to communicate that are doing a group project together.