Dyad+8+page

** Ashley Cooper & Polly Miller **

 * __Compelling Question:__**
 * ===//How can students use digital timelines as a study tool for World History?//===
 * We will be exploring this question using a high school junior enrolled in a World History class. She is struggling in the class due to her lack of being able to dates, places, and names of important events, places, and people from world history.


 * __Resources:__**
 * //Prezi:// This is our primary resource. Prezi is a web 2.0 tool where digital timelines can be seamlessly created by adding images and audio to dates. We will use Prezi to create a timeline using information the student is studying in her class. She will create a timeline in order to aid in her study habits.
 * //Wikispaces:// This website will be our secondary resource. Wikispaces is a web 2.0 tool that allows people to create, edit, and collaborate simultaneously online. We will use this website to help the student house the information she is studying, and to explain each step of her timeline creation and study process. This website will also include a link to the student's timeline.
 * //Skype//: This is a communication browser that allows people to communicate face-to-face from anywhere around the globe for free. Multiple people can engage in the conversation at once.
 * The student's World History course will provide the actual data that will be anchored into the timeline.


 * __Materials:__**
 * Personal computer
 * Quiet learning environment
 * Internet access
 * Student
 * 2 tutors


 * __Target Age Group:__** Secondary Education


 * __TPACK/Lesson Plans:__**
 * //Technology:// Skype, Wikispaces, Prezi
 * //Pedagogy & Content Knowledge:// Extended application and enrichment of the knowledge learned in World History . Also, the student will be required to submit the final grade for the World History course after using the digital timeline as a study skill.


 * __Pedagogical Approaches:__**
 * Student will be engaged and interactive with the tutors in the creative learning process.
 * ICT
 * Digital Literacies
 * Audio
 * Visual
 * Technological
 * Independent instruction
 * Scaffolding


 * __Technologies:__**
 * We will use websites that will help our student interactively retain historical information. Prezi provides an interesting way for the student to record information, as she will be able to construct the timeline using images and graphics. Also, the student will use Wikispaces in order to communicate with the tutors. In addition, this is a space the student can view the learning process, record her own learning process, and link her final compilation.
 * Communication will occur primarily via Skype and Wikispaces.

__**NCSCOS Learning Objectives Addressed:**__
 * NCSCOS
 * ~ Competency Goal 9 ||~ Prosperity and Depression (1919-1939) - The learner will appraise the economic, social, and political changes of the decades of "The Twenties" and "The Thirties." ||
 * <  ||< **Objectives**
 * 9.01** Elaborate on the cycle of economic boom and bust in the 1920's and 1930's.
 * 9.02** Analyze the extent of prosperity for different segments of society during this period.
 * 9.03** Analyze the significance of social, intellectual, and technological changes of lifestyles in the United States.
 * 9.04** Describe challenges to traditional practices in religion, race, and gender.
 * 9.05** Assess the impact of New Deal reforms in enlarging the role of the federal government in American life. ||


 * __PBI Timeline & Implementation:__**
 * //Timeline:// 10/31/11 - 11/11/11
 * //Implementation:// The PBI will be implemented with Michelle via Skype sessions, Wikispaces, Prezi, and in person. Michelle is a Junior at at Cox Mill High School in Concord, North Carolina.