Instructional+Unit+in+a+Virtual+Classroom+Environment

**Instructional Unit in a Virtual Classroom Environment** **- Syllabus **


 * Link to Virtual Classroom Syllabus **

My virtual classroom consists of 3 weeks of reading activities that are available online. Week 1 contains rhyming lessons. Week 2 contains activities that focus on identifying characters and settings in a story. Week 3 contains activities that focus on word families. Students are able to log onto the site, see a syllabus that outlines the activities, teacher contact information, a link to the local library, participate in a discussion board, watch videos and visit websites to complete activities, and view a Wimba presentation about word families. Process ** I began to plan my virtual classroom by thinking about skills that kindergarten students review all year long. I choose rhyming, word families, and character and setting identification because they are constant parts of the curriculum throughout the school year. As I began to set up my virtual classroom I included a menu bar with buttons that link the students to a local library, teacher contact information, a discussion board for parents and students, a welcome activity, the class syllabus, a Wimba presentation, a pre-test, post-test and 9 activities. I organized activities by topic and grouped them into folders to make the website easy to navigate and understand. Before the activities, I included a pre-test to assess current knowledge and included a post-test after the assignments were completed to assess what they had learned. I also included a jing presentation to guide the students through the welcome activitiy. I created a Wimba presentation to verbally explain word families. Finally, I included instructions for a group activity that encompasses each topic.
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I found this activity to be very complicated at first but the more work I did, the more I understood how to navigate the website. I feel that navigating this virtual classroom might be difficult for a kindergarten student but an older student could benefit from this assignment a great deal. I enjoyed searching YouTube and the internet for videos and websites. I found many videos and websites that I will use in my classroom. I am glad I learned to use Jing and would like to incorporate it in my classroom activities in the future. Although this activity was a good learning experience, I wish that I was able to access my Blackboard virtual classroom after my graduate class is over. It would be nice to be able to link the website to this page for viewing. 
 * Reflection **

 I included the references for my virtual classroom in the syllabus. 
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