Putting+it+all+together

Students will always get off task. The nature of the distraction may change, but the fact remains that whether a student is imagining a sunny day at the beach, or planning one on duffleup.com, we need to plan ways to help students stay on task.

=Stage 1:=

How did students get to be good students?
They had good teachers along the way help them to learn how to stay on task. We need to do the same with laptops.

=Stage 2:=

We are teaching individuals who plan on becoming teachers.
We need to help them think about issues of laptop usage. How will they restrict / encourage laptops in their classrooms?

=Stage 3:=

Adapt your classroom management plan to incorporate laptops.
Because we are all teachers here, and teachers of teachers at that, we are going to us a wiki designed to help beginning teachers. Modernteacher.net is designed to have content created by teachers for teachers. The intent of the content should be to help beginning teachers with new ideas, as well as help experienced teachers learn new tricks. The website was created using mediawiki, the same engine that powers Wikipedia and other popular wiki sites.

Modernteacher.net

When you come to the wiki, you will find that it is very simple to add and edit pages. This would be a link in Mediawiki code
 * Select the category you think is most appropriate.
 * Edit that page
 * When you are editing the page, you want to add an internal link; this will allow you to create a new page.
 * To add an internal link, just type some text, and add double-brackets on either side.
 * code
 * (Yes the whole phrase would be a link)
 * Save the page you are editing.
 * When you save, you will need to select the kitten and save again. (Spam Prevention, sorry about that)
 * You should see that your new link is sitting there, waiting to be clicked.
 * When you click your new link, it will take you to a page that is not yet created. Click the create button.
 * Edit the page to explain your classroom management technique.

Have fun with this activity!

 * Give your technique a witty name, if you like.
 * Explain some rationale -- when would this technique be best used?
 * Give an example of how this technique might be implemented.