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Home Standard 1 / Standard 2 / Standard 3 / Standard 4 / Standard 5 Standard 6 / Standard 7 / Standard 8 / Standard 9 / Standard10 Teachers communicate well. ** The teacher uses effective verbal and nonverbal communication techniques as well as instructional media and technology to foster active inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interaction in the classroom. **Evidence 1:** Extra Credit Opportunity Wikispace Extra Credit Wiki
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I feel that this is an effective way to use nonverbal communication with my students while using technology to foster inquiry and support what’s being taught in the classroom. So far, I’ve had good participation by students and this has been an easy way for me to offer another learning opportunity to them without taking too much time. Students have written in their responses that they enjoy doing work this way and they have been asking for more. In the future, I’m planning on using this wikispace as more than an extra-credit opportunity. I plan to create Google Forms like this as a way to administer pre-tests to check students’ background knowledge and as a way to do webquests.
 * Rationale 1:** This wikispace was created as an opportunity for students to earn extra-credit and take their learning further. I’ve used it a few times in my sixth grade science classes. I find a website that is based around the same content I’m teaching in science class. I put a link to the website on my wikispace and with it, I create a Google Form through my Google Docs account. I embed the Google Form on my wikispace below the link to the website. In class, I share the extra-credit opportunity with my students and upload a link to the wikispace on the homework calendar. Students have about a week or so to visit the wikispace, go to the linked website about the current topic and then answer questions about the website link in the Google Form. Their answers are submitted in a spreadsheet in my Google Doc account. 

6.K.4 The teacher recognizes the importance of nonverbal, verbal and media communication techniques. This wikispace uses nonverbal media communication between my students and I. 6.S.5 The teacher knows how to use a variety of media communication tools, including audiovisual aids and computers, to enrich learning opportunities. This demonstrates that I know how to use a variety of media communication tools to enhance my students’ learning. My students seem to enjoy learning this way and are motivated by this type of communication tool.  6.D.2 The teacher values many ways in which people seek to communicate and encourages many modes of communication in the classroom. Not only do I communicate with students in the classroom, I communicate with them using the internet and Web 2.0 tools outside of the classroom.