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=__//**Welcome to Spring Oaks Teacher Practice Wikispace**//__= = Topics to choose from, please remember everyone at your table should have a different topic. =
 * ==== **At anytime you are confused or need help, please ask your neighbors. If you need further clarification, write your questions on the back channel at the attached link for Today's Meet.** ====
 * === Join this wiki. Click join now at the prompt above. Enter your username and password of your choice and your email address. Then click join. Or sign in, if you already have an account with wikispaces. ===
 * === Each person at your table should choose a different topic from the list below. ===
 * === Please click on the topic page you chose from the left menu margin under "All Pages". Then click EDIT. ===
 * === Olympic Games origination ===
 * === Superbowl Commercialism ===
 * === Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio ===
 * === Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall ===
 * === Geologic History of the Grand Canyon ===

Why are there so many different colored rocks making up the Grand Canyon?

= Bonus if you choose some enrichment! =
 * === Hawaiian Culture ===
 * === Engineering of the Statue of Liberty ===
 * 1) ===Write one research question concerning your topic. Questions should be open ended and in the higher level spectrum of Bloom's taxonomy. I tell my students that all their questions should begin with Why, How or sometimes What(if it is a good question)? No one in can have the same question.===
 * 2) ===Choose one question from someone else writing on your page, and answer it. Be creative, attach pictures, videos as necessary using the link and file icons above.===
 * 3) ===Cite your internet source.===
 * 4) ===When you are done, click SAVE and read through all the responses on your page. Comment if you choose, under their response.===
 * 5) ===Based on what you have read, develop one more research question and enter it on your wikipage to extend the learning of your topic.===
 * 6) ===Share what you learned on your topic with those at your table.===


 * == Copy the URL of your topic's wikispace page in the address bar. The URL to the example to the right is https://somstech.wikispaces.com. (Highlight, then Ctrl-C) ==
 * == Open a new tab, and go to www.tagxedo.com ==
 * == Paste the URL in Tagxedo box. (Ctrl-V) ==
 * == Play with the layouts. ==
 * == Compare your results with your neighbor's. ==

====In my classroom, students write 5 research questions at a each level of research. I assess their questions and help them formulate them as we go. I keep each of the tasks above to specific time segments, so they are only focused on one task at a time. Many times we use this a collaborative research effort for the entire class. Everyone contributes to a collective of research everyone can then use to create their summative product or test. You can have various classes collaborating together on a specific part of a topic, just as you are working a specific topic page today. For example, you could take any of the topics you see today and break them into smaller components and have specific groups work on separate pages of a wiki and are responsible to the entire class for the research contribution. They share all gained research for the benefit of the entire class. Students buy into this idea, because it sounds like less work. Most feel compelled to do well, since they are accountable to the entire class. Those that do not do their fair share of research, have peer pressure to do better next time.====