Final Reflection on Implementation

1. How did you implement your cyberlesson? (small group, whole group, posted on the Internet to be done at home? Individually, as a learning center etc.) (Where was the less held? numbers of computers per student?)

2. Strengths of implementation?

3. Weaknesses of implementation?

4. How would you modify the way in which you implemented the project to make it more successful?

5. What did you learn from the implemenation of this cyberlesson?

6. Do you plan to use this lesson again?

7. Are you planning to develop another cyberlesson on a different book?

Why or Why not?

STUDENTS' Response and Understanding to The Arrival

Please reflection on your students' experience of The Arrival Literature Cyberlesson in light of the following questions:

What was their overall reader response and understanding of the book The Arrival.

Please write about their experience of engaging in The Arrival Literature Cybereslesson.

Please reflect on their thinking about The Arrival Before, During , After and Beyond the reading components.

How might their understanding of the book been different if they had not engaged in the Literature Cyberlesson?

What were the benefits of the cyberlesson that supported their understanding of The Arrival?

What were the drawbacks of the cyberlesson that detracted from their understanding of the Arrival?

What was the most evocative part of The Arrival for them?


Please include any memorable anecdotes of students' response and stduent thinking during the implementation.

The Arrival

Teachers’ modifications to the cyberlesson to accommodate varying levels of student diversity

1. How might you modify your cyberlesson to accommodate to your grade level/teaching situation?
2. What changes would you make to the content of the cyberlesson- Before, During, After and Beyond?
IMPLEMENTATION?
3.What changes would you make to the implementation of it?
LOGISTICS
4.Where will it take place?
Over what time span?
Will it be done individually or with a partner?
Whole group teacher directed?
Independently and student directed?
Will it take place in the classroom? computer lab?
What access will students have to computers, Internet?

5. Once you modify for your grade level, how will you accommocate to student differences within your class?

Teachers Reader Response to The Arrival in the format of the Cyberlesson

Please reflection on your experience of The Arrival Literature Cyberlesson in light of the following questions:

What was your overall reader response to the book The Arrival.

Please write about your experience of engaging in The Arrival Literature Cybereslesson. Please reflect on your experience Before, During , After and Beyond the reading components.

How might your experiences of the book been different if you had not engaged in the Literature Cyberlesson?

What were the benefits of the cyberlesson?

What were the drawbacks of the cyberlesson?

What was the most evocative part if the cyberlesson for you?

What was the least valuable part of it?

The Arrival Article Overview

Dear Student this is the first part of paper that we will write for the Reading Teacher. Please note the questions that we are searching for below:

A Stranger in a Strange Land: A Literature Cyberlesson on The Arrival (Tan, 2007)At one time or another every citizen in the United States has had some familial connection to immigration/migration whether voluntary or forced. This paper presents the results of a study which makes use of an Internet Methods Framework, the Literature Cyberlesson (Kurkjian, C., & Kara-Soteriou, J.,Abadiano, H.R. & Mulcahy, C. 2008;2006;2005), focusing on teachers’ and their students’ reader response to Shaun Tan’s The Arrival (2007), a fantasy book of visual images that explores being a stranger in a strange land. This Internet framework guides students before, during, after and beyond the reading of a text. It builds and activates background knowledge, creates an anticipatory set for reading, helps students to enter, reenter and revisit text to invite comprehension and reader response. Graduate students enrolled in a sixth-year level class participated in The Arrival Literature Cyberlesson and then modified it for use with varying levels of students within their individual classrooms (students ranging from primary to middle grades). The presentation will discuss results across levels of participation and themes that emerged from the qualitative analysis in light of the following foci which include:
1)Teachers’ reader response to The Arrival through the vehicle of the cyberlesson,
2) Teachers’ modifications to the cyberlesson to accommodate varying levels of student diversity,
3)Teachers’ responses to the use of cyberlessons in a school setting to support teaching and learning,
4)Students’ reader response to the The Arrival through the vehicle of the cyberlesson,
5)Students’ response to the use of cyberlessons as a vehicle to support learning.

Data analyzed include artifacts created in response to the literature cyberlesson, teacher and student reflections/interviews.

I am going to ask you to post your reader response to the book in the format of the Arrival Literature Cyberlesson. I will pose a few guiding questions to help focus.
Thank you!
Dr. Kurkjian

Gender Equity Technologically Mediated Discussion

1.Read Gender equity article

2. Read article on link below focusing on criteria for evaluating books in light of gender issues

http://www.kidsource.com/education/gender.issues.L.A.html

Please conduct a meaty discussion on the ideas posed in the articles. A MINIMUM Of 2 entries per person.

Picture Book Review Discussion E: Portrayal of Palestinian / Mideastern Americans

Each member of the group must bring a picture book to share that will add to the conversation on the issues related to the article(s) to be discussed. Please post your review of your book in class. Indicate complete bibliographic information (title, date, author, publisher, genre) Give a brief, but engaging summary, provide an anlysis of the book as it relates to the discussion topic and as a piece of quality children's literature. Discuss the audience for whom it is attended and how it lends itself to the classroom.

Picture Book Review Discussion D: Portrayal of Asian/Asian Americans

Each member of the group must bring a picture book to share that will add to the conversation on the issues related to the article(s) to be discussed. Please post your review of your book in class. Indicate complete bibliographic information (title, date, author, publisher, genre) Give a brief, but engaging summary, provide an anlysis of the book as it relates to the discussion topic and as a piece of quality children's literature. Discuss the audience for whom it is attended and how it lends itself to the classroom.

Picture Book Review Discussion C: Portrayal of Latino/Latino Americans

Each member of the group must bring a picture book to share that will add to the conversation on the issues related to the article(s) to be discussed. Please post your review of your book in class. Indicate complete bibliographic information (title, date, author, publisher, genre) Give a brief, but engaging summary, provide an anlysis of the book as it relates to the discussion topic and as a piece of quality children's literature. Discuss the audience for whom it is attended and how it lends itself to the classroom.

Picture Book Review Discussion B: Portrayal of Native Americans

Each member of the group must bring a picture book to share that will add to the conversation on the issues related to the article(s) to be discussed. Please post your review of your book in class. Indicate complete bibliographic information (title, date, author, publisher, genre) Give a brief, but engaging summary, provide an anlysis of the book as it relates to the discussion topic and as a piece of quality children's literature. Discuss the audience for whom it is attended and how it lends itself to the classroom.

Picture Book Reviews Topic A :Portrayal of African/African Americans

Each member of the group must bring a picture book to share that will add to the conversation on the issues related to the article(s) to be discussed. Please post your review of your book in class. Indicate complete bibliographic information (title, date, author, publisher, genre) Give a brief, but engaging summary, provide an anlysis of the book as it relates to the discussion topic and as a piece of quality children's literature. Discuss the audience for whom it is attended and how it lends itself to the classroom.

The Arrival Book Review

Dear Class,
As part of your After Reading Activity in The Arrival Cyberlesson, please post a review of the book. Please bring to bear all that you have learned in your analysis of the text including info from websites.
Thank you,
Dr. Kurkjian