Multimedia In Life Skills I work with the students on Decision Making Skills. I have a graphic organizer that I created and have used for the last couple years. It’s a pretty good starting place, but what I’m envisioning is using one of the online organizing tools to step it up a notch.
I found a few tools that could be used for this. The idea I’m trying for is instead of handing the students a graphic organizer and simply asking them to fill it out with the information, I would like to use an online tool. Ideally, I would use it to create a template for the students to complete. The students who need extra help due to IEPs or other needs would have a template that is already partially filled in – perhaps I would already label the steps for decision making and leave them with needing the information about each step? I could also give the GIEP students an opportunity to create their own organizer, rather than use the template.
One of the tools is www.flowchart.com and I really like the looks of this one – however they are in beta format and you have to request an invite to be allowed to create on it. The next one that I really like for this purpose is www.mindomo.com and it looks very cool too – however you are limited to a certain number of creations unless you pay for a subscription (very inexpensive, but still, why pay when you can get it for free elsewhere?). I also found one called Recipes4Success at http://www.myt4l.com/index.php?v=pl&page_ac=view&type=tools&tool=graphicorganizers, but the drawback of this one is I think it’s intended for teachers to create PDF charts. So you would most likely still end up giving the kids the paper chart anyway and you’d lose the option of allowing advanced students to create. Also, the advantage of the first two is that they are able to be used for collaborative projects. This would give you yet another way of differentiating for students because they could do the project in groups.
These are the standards this project would help me cover:
11.2.9.A: Solve dilemmas using a practical reasoning approach Identify situation Identify reliable information List choices and examine the consequences of each Develop a plan of action Draw conclusions Reflect on decisions
11.2.9.B: Know FCCLA action planning procedure and how to apply it to family, work and community decisions.
In Life Skills I work with the students on Decision Making Skills. I have a graphic organizer that I created and have used for the last couple years. It’s a pretty good starting place, but what I’m envisioning is using one of the online organizing tools to step it up a notch.
I found a few tools that could be used for this. The idea I’m trying for is instead of handing the students a graphic organizer and simply asking them to fill it out with the information, I would like to use an online tool. Ideally, I would use it to create a template for the students to complete. The students who need extra help due to IEPs or other needs would have a template that is already partially filled in – perhaps I would already label the steps for decision making and leave them with needing the information about each step? I could also give the GIEP students an opportunity to create their own organizer, rather than use the template.
One of the tools is www.flowchart.com and I really like the looks of this one – however they are in beta format and you have to request an invite to be allowed to create on it. The next one that I really like for this purpose is www.mindomo.com and it looks very cool too – however you are limited to a certain number of creations unless you pay for a subscription (very inexpensive, but still, why pay when you can get it for free elsewhere?). I also found one called Recipes4Success at http://www.myt4l.com/index.php?v=pl&page_ac=view&type=tools&tool=graphicorganizers, but the drawback of this one is I think it’s intended for teachers to create PDF charts. So you would most likely still end up giving the kids the paper chart anyway and you’d lose the option of allowing advanced students to create. Also, the advantage of the first two is that they are able to be used for collaborative projects. This would give you yet another way of differentiating for students because they could do the project in groups.
These are the standards this project would help me cover:
11.2.9.A: Solve dilemmas using a practical reasoning approach
Identify situation
Identify reliable information
List choices and examine the consequences of each
Develop a plan of action
Draw conclusions
Reflect on decisions
11.2.9.B: Know FCCLA action planning procedure and how to apply it to family, work and community decisions.
(www.mindomo.com)