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Let's find some good resources for lesson plans. Here is a list that I have started. Now you add 2 that you think are good.

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www.internet4classrooms.com/**lesson**.htm (Anne Massie)

[|www.**lessonplans**4**teachers**.com/] (Anne Massie)

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[] (Goodman) These are a few different lesson plans, all addressing american folklore and story telling. Could be adapted to use at any age. [] (Goodman) This link takes you to a lesson plan exploring narrative structure and purpose. This can supplement the first link because it discussed how important the narrative style is to american folklore.

http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/ (Rodriguez) http://www.internet4classrooms.com/integ_tech_lessons.htm (Rodriguez)

Tuesday's Guided Practice:

=**Guided Practice [respond to question about PowerPoint here]:**=

I agree with the post above, having a space for them to add notes helps keep them on topic. Also a PowerPoint presentation does not need to have to be detailed. It's a guide to help the students take notes, but they need to add to what is on the PowerPoint.

I believe the "fluff" can serve a purpose for some PPP but the content should be the "meat" of the PPP. Having students follow along by worksheets (possibly homework sheets, PPP outline, etc.) could be one way to keep students engaged in your PPP and the content of the PPP. - Cory Gilley

Given a Rubric that emphasizes content is a must. Students will know that the meat of the project is in this element. Fluff can be encouraged by making extra credit available for enhancing the final product. However, extra credit of this nature would not be available unless a certain score was achieved on meeting content expectations. - Bronwyn Mattos

Have the students work on a list of project you have choosen but still interesting to the class. Tell them to be creative on way on way that would help them understand the content better. Redwine I think that students do get distracted during long segments of material on PowerPoint. One way I hope to combat this is to do some interactive demonstrations. These demonstrations will engage the students and hopefully give them the drive to focus on the material. - Justin Maenner

By emphasizing the content and keeping the fluff to a minimum. Students will be able to know what the difference between the fluff and the content. - - Shane Erwin

Make the assignment (or class procedure) be to allow the students to add "fluff" to their powerpoint notes at a later time if they want. But have the focus of the note-taking be on getting the material down. It is great for the students to know how use PP, create a class time or that, for the note-taking only focus on the material. --Melissa McAdams

To have students concentrate on the content and not on the fluff, the rubric should emphasize by weighting of the score assigned for each component of the project, that the content is worth much more than the fluff. Fluff could even weigh only as bonus points to emphasize this more. - Anne Massie

I agree with giving the students a print out of the PP and allow them to make notes out to the side. Make sure that they know what the main concepts are that they will be responsible for knowing. Fluff can be a good thing, but we have some students that focus too much on the fluff and not enough on the meat. We need to make sure we tell them the difference. -- Layne Boxell

Anne is right. The rubric should weigh the content heavier than all the bells and whistles. In fact, I might go a step further and only award bonus points for creative touches added after the more imortant things have already been addressed. -- Cheryl Cason

When try to get a student to be more concern about the content and not the fluff let the student know that when working on the powerpoint to first get all the information down and then look at that information and see if there is any need to consider fluff for that page. A lot of time people are worry about the small thing and lose sight of the big picture. Even as teachers we sometime forget that the content and think it is dry and boring so we try to add fluff (make is fun but lose the meaning of the lesson) and then we lose the student all together. Jbradley

The content has to be concise and direct. The fluff has to grab attention and not detract from the content. RFox

I agree with most of you about the PowerPoint being short and simple and not to complex or wordy because students get bored easily and words on a slide is not going to keep their attention on you while you present. Providing the PPT handouts with space for them to elaborate on main points is a much better technique because it does not just give the students all the information, they have to listen to the speaker and fill in important information that they hear that is related to the main points given to them on the PPT. --Kayla Stanford

Yes, a PowerPoint needs to be short and concise. The rubric will need to stress the importance of the content verses the fluff. Unfortunately, a student is drawn to fluff a PowerPoint to keep the attention of the audience, especially in these times with all the technology in place 24/7. However, it will ultimately be up to the teacher to help the student focus more time and energy in making the words (content) in the PowerPoint the most important element of a PowerPoint. - SR

I agree with the post above. the rubric will need to stress the importance of the content verses the fluff. student has to see what is important and whats not importance. if student are not made aware of that, than you will get Fluff..... ralph

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