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Welcome to EDUC 507: Developmental Reading! I am glad that you made it to our wiki, and hope that this wiki will serve as a place for us to collect our thoughts, ideas, concerns, questions, etc. about literacy in the elementary classroom. I am open to any suggestions as to how to make this wiki user friendly for you. So, my advice to you is when you find something really interesting, please share it with us!

"Flipping Classrooms" is a new concept that is being used in many school districts across the nation. In a traditional classroom, the teacher would lecture on a particular topic, then assign homework for students to complete at home. Students would do the work at home and often forget the lecture and struggle with the homework. In a flipped classroom, the student listens/watches the teacher's lecture at home and the work is completed in the classroom. In this classroom, the teacher is able to work with students on the work. In essence, students learn at home and create in the classroom. The term "flipping classrooms" is used in K-12 schools. In higher education, it is often called blended learning, inverted instruction, or hybrid learning. I am assuming that in most of your college classes, the professor/instructor lectures, then assigns work for you to do at home. You come to class with the work done, hoping and crossing your fingers that it was done correctly. During this semester, we are going to a blended learning classroom where you will listen to a lecture or watch videos at home, then create and work on your assignments here in class.

This wiki will be the space for information for this course. You will need to constantly check back to this wiki to find out what you need to do for the next time that we meet. On this wiki you will find:

1. The syllabus for this course;



2. All required lectures and videos with the necessary links for you to view prior to class; 3. Class agendas for each week.

REMEMBER: Technology can be excited and frustrating all at the same time. We are all learning together. The purpose of this wiki is to expose you to a form of technology that you might consider implementing in your own classroom when you are teachers.