Strategies

An appropriate strategy to follow anytime you use technology is to adhere to
the six P's!
1.Pretest Students
2.Preview Materials
3.Prepare Materials
4.Prepare Environment
5.Prepare Learners
6.Provide Experience and Interaction

These strategies should be followed once your web unit has been developed.

1. Pretest Students: First of all you would pretest your students. You would want to determine what your students all ready know about specific elements related to the topic. For example:

How do you celebrate Christmas?

What people are important at Christmas?

What food do you eat at Christmas?

2. Preview Materials: Then you would want to preview your materials as needed. For example, if you have
specific web sites for them to access, you would want to look these over and make sure that they are related to
the topic in question, that they can be accessed, and that they are appropriate for the level of your students. You
also want to double check your web site you have created to ensure that all works well.

3. Prepare Materials: You would next want to prepare the appropriate materials. For example, prepare advance
organizer questions, statements, true or false ideas or visuals that you would go over in class with the students
prior to their working with your web module.

4. Prepare Environment: To ensure that all goes well the day you begin work on your module, make sure that you
have your questions or written materials printed out, that you have the appropriate equipment for in-class
presentation, or that you have access to the computer lab to go over the module with the students.

5. Prepare Learners: Before students work with the module, you want to prepare them for the work to come. So, you would give them an overview of the module, you would also go over the advance organizer materials you prepared earlier, and you would let them know what is expected of them within each segment of the module. This would entail following the objectives outlined earlier in this teacher component.

6. Provide Experience and Interaction: At this point, you've made your assignments and now student should be working with the material. It is ALWAYS important to bring the information back into the classroom and interact in relation to it. This is what makes technology effective and personable!

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