Deb+4-C-3

 Handout “Where does the Time Go?” questionnaire and "Time Management Questionnaire" Questionaires Reflection questions each student is to answer Bibliography of time management resources including “ How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less by Cal Newport” and a list of blogging resources including “The Student’s Blog” (http://www.nextstudent.com/the-students-blog) A Wordpress account Computer lab room for the first class Blogging Rubric to hand out to students || that class will use and create first blog posting with introduction and questions students are to respond to in their blog || Type in the content of your new page here.
 * Blogging Lesson Plan **
 * Target Audience || 20 academically dismissed community college students who have returned to college on academic probation ||
 * Student Objectives || Students will explore how time management figures into their previous academic dismissal and will, in the course of blogging with classmates who also have had academic problems, acquire new strategies for time management and participate in a network of support ||
 * Resources || “Blogger’s FAQ: Student Blogging” from Electronic Freedom Foundation (http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/students)
 * Preparation || Set up a WordPress account with privacy setting set on “visible only to users”
 * Instruction and Activities || First class will be introducing students to blogging and having each student invited to the class blog, reviewing the” Blogger FAQ”, and demonstrating how to post a blog and on what aspects of their blogging they will be evaluated. Students will be asked to complete the handout “where does my time go” on the classroom blog and view and react to the video “A Vision of Today’s Students” and how it pertains to them, the challenges they face as students and similarities or dissimilarities with how they spend time during the course of an average day. They will also share in the blog how they will tweak their daily schedule now that they have estimated how much time they spend on various activities. ||
 * Evaluation of lesson || See Blog Rubric below Blog Rubric ||