How do we help students to organize and retain content information?

Here are some great resources for tools we can use to organize and retain content information:
Lots of great graphic organizers:

1. MargD - Teaching Posters
   http://margdteachingposters.weebly.com/graphic-organizers.html
2. Make your own graphic organizers!
   http://myt4l.com/index.php?v=pl&page_ac=view&type=tools&tool=graphicorganizers&go_view=edit 
3. What types of organizers do you use in your classroom?

Are you familiar with TeachingChannel? There are a TON of great ideas here, with videos that show the teaching strategies in action. Here is a protocol that would work in a high school classroom.

Organizing Information with Graphic Organizers and Curation Tools

Content Curation is the act of discovering, gathering, and publishing content on the Web.  Content curation is a great way to stock your blog and class sites with fresh content, while saving time and reaching a broad audience.  The goal of content curation is not to create new content, but to find the most relevant content pertaining to a specific category and funneling this information to readers in a very targeted way.

Below are some tools with links to graphics organizers for you to explore.

• Social Bookmarking with Diigo
  (Graphic Organizers)
• Scoop it (Interactive Organizers)
• LiveBinder Graphic Organizers
• Pintrest Graphic organizers - Pinterest  

Follow mmarotta's board Graphic Organizers on Pinterest.

Directions to create your own widget for Pinterest go here 
Make sure you copy your Pinterest board link for the widget.

Other - If you have an graphic organizer you would like to share, we have setup a folder  HERE  in google drive so you can add it to the collection or bring it to our next book club.

Below is the the completed organized we worked on last month.  Reseach schows that three elements —repetition, variation, and depth of thought—help us create deep and lasting memories.  

Organizing Information

What are the best practices we have to help students organize and process information? Share them in this folder:

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Feats of Memory

The Interactive Lecture book group will meet next in the Learning Commons Area of the media center.  We will be looking at the concepts of memory and memory based learning, and in particular, discussing the idea of the "Hook".  We will be discussing many of the concepts that arose in pages 6-19.  

Please have the activities on pages 8 and 9 completed, if possible.  

Feats of Memory - Link 

Six Goals of The Interactive Lecture

We will be discussing these six goals and what they mean for us tomorrow.  Feel free to comment below about the goals!

Goal #1 Increase Student Engagement

Goal #2  Build Students' Information Management Skills

Goal #3  Develop Students' Information Note-Taking Skills

Goal #4 Deepen Comprehension

Goal #5 Build Students' Background Knowledge

Goal #6  Develop Students' Habits of Mind