West+Credit


 * Please po st ideas you had about rich tasks and using instructional technology to support learning here. Include information about:[[image:peelrichtasks/plan_jpg.jpg width="217" height="217" align="right"]] **

**a) Critical Literacy skill identified by the Professional Learning Team **

History Vocabulary

**b) Success criteria you are hoping to see through observations, conversations and products related to the Rich Task. **

Students will choose pictures that represent the meaning of given History Vocabulary words. Individually, students will choose an appropriate and logical picture. Students will post the picture on the wiki or on a physical "visionary" (picture word wall) TM Gillian

Students will be able to evaluate the pictures chosen by their peers and identify the most suitable visual representation of the concept/word.

Students will begin to extend recently gleaned vocabuary to classroom activites. This would be observed by teachers on an informal basis.

**c) Your initial plans for a Rich Task **

We have identified our marker students and have initial baseline data. We have developed and implemented some strategies (contextual reading activities, physical word wall, and wiki word wall development).

The teachers will create a list of words and upload them on a wiki. Through class modelling and scaffolding, students will find a visual representation for each word and upload it to the wiki. Once there is a visual representation for all the words, collectively students will vote on the most representive picture and provide a textual entry on the blog explaining their choice.

Once students have voted, the picture will be printed and appear on the physical "VISIONARY" in the classroom for future reference.

**d) As you plan forward, things you need to put in place so that you can develop the Rich Task? **


 * Time release (at least 1/2 day to set up and familiarize ourselves with the wiki protocol)
 * Computer lab booking times (all on the same day perhaps?)
 * Gillian to set-up an account using:
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">wikispaces.com
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">pbworks.org