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Students use computer-based tools, such as video, audio, graphics, and web publishing, to tell personal or academic stories about life experiences relevant to course themes.

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Digital Story

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In the 3-2-1 technique, students write about 3 things they learned in the lecture, 2 things they found particularly interesting from the lecture, and 1 question they still have about the lecture content.

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3-2-1

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Teaching Technique 17 Lecture Engagement Log THE K. PATRICIA CROSS ACADEMY

Lecture Engagement Logs are records that students keep to document the various academic activities they engage in for a particular class.

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A PLE is a set of people and digital resources an individual can access for the specific intent of learning. Students illustrate the potential connections through a visible network of the set.

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Personal Learning Environment

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A Lecture Wrapper is a tool for teaching students self-monitoring behavior as they identify key points from a lecture and then compare their points to the instructor’s list of points.

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Lecture Wrapper

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A Post-Test Analysis is a two-stage process that is divided into several steps designed to help students develop greater awareness of their test-preparing and test-taking skills.

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Post-Test Analysis

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Teaching Technique 39 Comprehensive Factors List THE K. PATRICIA CROSS ACADEMY

In Comprehensive Factors List, students write all the relevant factors they can think of about a specific topic, drawing from course content and personal experiences.

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Teaching Technique 43 Punctuated Lecture THE K. PATRICIA CROSS ACADEMY

During a Punctuated Lecture, students listen to the lecture for approximately 15 to 20 minutes. At the end of the lecture segment, the teacher pauses and asks students to answer a question about what they are doing at that particular moment.

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Teaching Technique 47 What? So What? Now What? Journals THE K. PATRICIA CROSS ACADEMY

In What? So What? Now What? Journals, students reflect on their recent course-related activities as they respond to each prompt in a journal entry.

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Teaching Technique 50 Sentence Stem Predictions THE K.PATRICIA CROSS ACADEMY

In Sentence Stem Predictions (SSP), the professor presents a partial sentence that is structured to prompt students to predict select aspects of the upcoming lecture.

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