• Gao Er Li iEarn
• Location: JSB 306
• Teacher: Kandy Shu-Wen
• Gao Er Li Teacher's Meetings
• Gao Er Li iEarn Marks Project 1
• Gao Er Li iEarn Group Marks Project 2
• Gao Er Li Student Area

• iEarn Collaboration Center

• Check with interview student, did they receive the interview?

• Students must be finished their introduction and photo for the iEarn blog.

• Check student's online (DokuWiki) work. If the students are not finished, then they must submit their work in writing during the class. This work must then be entered by them, with supporting photos or other media, before next class. (Next class is the deadline.)

• Using the CMS (DokuWiki),
• Students will research heroes in their community and create a short essay describing why they are heroes, and what they have contributed to society.
• Students may also write about their own families and compare and contrast how they differ from other families.
• They may share a personal narrative written about their family or simply share a day in the life with their family.
• This will initially take the form of a short (100 to 200 word) presentation on the person, and later will be accompanied by photos. The articles must be posted to the CMS DokuWiki by each group, and will be converted into a different format live, online, by the teacher – or just shared as-is, as appropriate.

• Students will spend significant time discussing who to write about as a group and then coming up with things to say.
• Usage of colored writing:
  • Each student in each group will mark their contribution to the group by writing their input in a different color.

• Using a CMS (DokuWiki)
• We will create a CMS to hold all of the student's project 1 and 2 documents today.
• Students will be responsible for adding their documents to this CMS in the future.
• We may do a third project on DokuWiki CMS if there is time.
• We could also use wordpress.

• October 2
• 第一次段考 – Test, no class.

• 國慶連假 No Class

• Today we will review their iEarn project 2 presentations.
• Group 5 is finished first, but no other groups are ready yet.

• There was a monday make-up class.
• During this class we finished the marking for project 1 and I introduced project 2.
• We examined how to layout the project in Libreoffice Writer or Microsoft Office.
• Projects are to be done in a group.
• The projects will be evaluated next class.

• Today we learned how to put together a writer or MSO document with our pictures and story, and then export it as a PDF.
• Next we will do a team project where we do this for real, with the goal of posting it to the iEarn blog.

• September 25
• Created Gao Er Li iEarn Marks
• I will use this class to share the best stories that students have created and give some tips on:
• How to tell a great story
• Tips on making a great photo
• Suggestions for more ideas (Share each other's ideas)
• If the students are doing well, we will advance to the next lesson immediately and
• use the extra time later, in case there is trouble with the progress.

The new Lesson Plan Synopsis is now availble. Please visit Gao Er Li iEarn Synopsis for more information.

• Teams and Multimedia
• In this class we will express the wide variety of multimedia available to the students for them to use.
• We will create five teams. Each team must have a team leader. If someone needs help, they can ask their team leader, or me. The team leader is responsible for making sure everyone in the group does their work. Team leaders are marked not only on their own performance but on how well they lead the group. Team members are, in turn, marked partially by their team leader on how well they follow the instructions. (This is a suggestion of the iEarn curriculum).

Tell the students they can use these, and more!

• Computer skills:
  • Blogs, Wikis, forums, uploading videos/photos/documents
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• Research skills:
  • Internet, Wikipedia, Library, experts/community heroes/leaders,
• English language skills:
  • Writing, grammar, punctuation, content, sensory details,
  • Online communication- asking questions, reading and responding to posts


Explain how the class will be marked.

• 10% – If you are a team leader, this is your “leadership score”. If you are a team member, this mark will be your “team score”, given to you by your team leader.
• 30% – You will get a mark based on your individual projects.
• 30% – You will get a mark based on your team projects.
• 30% – Appledog will give you a mark based on your participation and English ability. To get the best mark, you should talk to Appledog more often!

September 10 - Introduction of iEARN program

• We will choose a project and explore examples. We choose “A Day in the Life”.
• We watched some official iEarn videos about “A Day in the Life”.

September 4 – Introduction of iEARN program

• Discuss iEarn and what iEarn is all about.
• Introduction to the project using iEARN videos, blogs, and forums.

開學週 School start, no class.