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Digital Academy: Final Project =Overview =
 * 1) Project Summary
 * 2) Project Implementation Plan/Timeline
 * 3) Assessment Rubric

**Part 1: Project Summary **

**Content ** > **
 * The teacher will use TurningPoint technology along with PowerPoint slideshows in order to help prepare students for answering short answer and extended response reading and math OAA questions with greater detail. The class will be able to see examples of student responses to past OAA tests (available from the ODE website) and be able to rate them with their remote controls based on accuracy, detail, and appropriateness. Students will then discuss in partners or small groups why they voted the way they did, then the class will share thoughts as a whole.
 * **Side note: Teacher must have familiarity creating PowerPoint slideshows and a knowledge of the TurningPoint 2008 software. Unfortunately I have not yet found a way to import this into TurningPoint AnyWhere, nor do I know if importing is possible.

**Pedagogy**
 * Partner/small group discussion
 * Whole-class discussion
 * Logic and reasoning

**Technology**
 * TurningPoint
 * Microsoft PowerPoint

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Part 2:** __<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Preparation __ >
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Start by going to **[|this portion]** of the ODE website to select an OAA test from the past. For this example, I will use a third grade reading selection.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Create a PowerPoint slideshow. For my slideshows, I import the entire OAA story and retype the released test questions that go with it. Each multiple choice question is a TurningPoint slide where students can vote for the correct answer (click on TurningPoint 2008 at the top of PowerPoint > Insert Slide > Vertical Slide)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">For each short answer and extended response question, I copy and paste the example responses from the ODE website. Be sure to select a variety of answers for one question so students can see what correct, partially correct, and completely incorrect answers all look like.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">See this file [[file:OAA Reading - 2008, Spring - The Smallest Life Around Us (TP).pptx]]. Feel free to use this as an example/template.

__<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Classwork __ > >
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I give students a copy of the story and the released test questions to complete on their own. This is usually given as homework.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The next day we read the story together as a class.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">After reading, the multiple choice questions are presented one at a time in the TurningPoint slideshow. Students are shown the choices from their story and then they vote on the correct answer. After all the votes are in, the correct choice is shown on the slideshow and I usually ask someone to explain why that is the correct answer (where it is in the story, etc.).
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">When the short answer and extended response questions are shown, students are given time to discuss their thoughts on how many points the answer should receive with their neighbor or in small groups. Partners do not have to agree, but this part promotes discussion and an exchange of ideas and thoughts.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Then the students can vote individually on how many points they feel the answer deserves. After all of the votes are in, the graph is shown to display the number of votes for each choice. A whole-class discussion is then opened up for volunteers to defend their choice.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Finally the correct number of points is displayed and then we open back up the discussion for students to figure out why the number of points was awarded.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> **Part 3:** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Honestly, there really is not a rubric that goes with this lesson. I base my "grading" for this on what I hear during student discussions in groups, partners, and as a whole class. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The entire point of the activity is for students to see what "good" and "not so good (or, let's be honest...bad)" answers to short answer and extended response questions look like. I've found that with practice using multiple reading and math OAAs from the past, students start to become more analytical in their judging of responses--both of others and of their own. They begin to incorporate what they've learned from the slideshows into their own responses on tests from class (and hopefully on future OAAs as well).