Lessons in action: Powerful blog comments and jigsaw plot development

Calling all Educators!

To help educators celebrate Digital Learning Day, the Alliance for Excellent Education is pleased to offer Digital Learning: Lessons in Action, which incorporate multiple strategies with digital learning, such as collaboration, personalized learning, project-based learning, flipped classrooms, virtual access to experts, and simulations.

We encourage you try one of these lessons and blog about it as we lead up to Digital Learning Day. Join the tens of thousands of educators who will tailor these lessons for use in their classrooms on Digital Learning Day and beyond. Try a lesson now!

Today’s lessons are:

Writing Powerful Blog Comments: Students develop their own blog site and learn the difference between academic and social comments.

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Jigsaw Plot Development: Students use a shared workspace to collaborate with peers on plot development and design a storyboard that demonstrates their knowledge of plot development.

Video Introduction  Lesson Plan  Lesson Part 1  Lesson Part 2  Lesson Part 3