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** Title: ** //A World of Favorites// Edgerton Upper Elementary, Tri County School District- Kimberly Blunt, Media Specialist
 * Case #3 **

** Case Description: ** Kimberly Blunt, a Media Specialist from Edgerton Upper Elementary, designed this lesson to use with her fourth and fifth grade students. The unit project was “designed to increase student’s awareness of children around the world, our similarities and differences.” (A World of Favorites, p. 1) Students were to survey different children from around the world to gather information about their favorite things. The students would use technology to complete these surveys and compile data. “This lesson is meant to widen students’ horizons, build on information and technology skills, and support our curriculum.” (A World of Favorites, p. 1)

Due to the school having access to internet through networked computers, Ms. Blunt chose to use FrontPage® Express to create webpages and access information through the internet. The students will also be able to use listserves to post questionnaires and other websites to incorporate clipart and gather information.

Students will need to possess some basic computer skills and be albe to navigate around the internet prior to this lesson. They should be able to access the internet as well as use word processing, basic editing tools, and document saving skills.

** Case Evaluation: ** One of the strengths of the instructional methods used in this lesson was accessing FrontPage® Express because it was already available on the school’s networked computers and there was no additional cost to use this program. The use of this technology will also allow the students to be creative with their project by adding clipart and information from various resources. One issue that might hinder the progress of the project is the lack of basic computer skills that some students may possess. Suggestions for improvement for this lesson may include: differentiation to incorporate all student learners, use of wikis in order to create group webpages, and providing a prerequisite lesson on basic computer skills.

** Reference: **

[|http://www.remc11.kmi12..us/bstpract/bpIII/108/108.PDF]