Cycle 3 Action 2 Teaching Points

• Good website developers create a home page for our site. Sometimes it is helpful to include a bit of general information, pictures and links to other pages that contain the topic's subtopics.
• Good website developers create websites/wiki pages that are multimodal texts, by including such things as pictures, charts, graphs, maps, text, video, audio, links to other pages and sites, etc...
• Good website developers choose multimodal forms of text that fit a particular subtopic or page content. We often choose pictures, videos, maps, etc... that go along with what we are writing about.
• Good website developers include links to other websites, by making sure the links are relevant to the information on the page.

Cycle 3 Action 1 Teaching Points

• Researchers analyze the purpose of a particular website. It sometimes helps to ask ourselves what we think the author's perspective might be and what the site is make us think and feel.
• Researchers understand that different features are used on websites for different reasons. We analyze those reasons by thinking about how the author or web designer used the features such as photographs, videos, and links.
• Researchers figure our how a website is best structured. One way we do this is by analyzing how certain websites are organized. We then ask ourselves what is organized well and what is confusing or hard to use on the site.
• Researchers begin to think about ways they may someday develop a good website, by taking the knowledge from their analysis and deciding what would make a good website.

Cycle 2 Action 3 Teaching Points

• Readers of blogs think critically when reading, by asking ourselves, "What is this blog really saying?" "How is this blog making me feel?" "What is this blog making me think about?" "Do I agree with the author of the blog? Why or why not?"
• Readers of blogs begin an online conversation by posting a comment after we have read a blog. Sometimes we post our agreement or disagreement with the author.
• Readers of blogs deepen our online conversations by backing up their comments with facts or research of our own about the topic.
• Writers of blogs keep the online conversation going by responding to comments left. Sometimes it's helpful to start by saying, "I understand your feelings/thoughts about that..." "So it seems to me that you are saying..." whether we disagree or not.
• Commenters and writers of blogs must often keep multiple online conversations going in just one blog. Often times we may respond to a few commenters in one comment.