Effective Instructional Models

The amount of resources available to educators on the internet is overwhelming. It is clear that the more you search and become familiar with the resources, the more you will develop as a teacher and integrate more teaching strategies. I was a little disappointed that many of the links that I clicked on in Chapter 3 were no longer working though, especially the ones under the heading for Sharee Mendoza's Class. Many of the links I was interested in on Schoolnet were no longer available as well.

One of the articles offered on Reading Online was about posting "book talks" online for students or colleges to view, like a teaser to make them read them. I can envision - if I taught an older grade it might be fun to post a book talk per week to inspire students to check out a particular book, or having students post a "book talk" about a book they just read for other students to check out.  Here is the article.