Jeff Gerlach
The following is a collection of instructional tools that I feel best demonstrate my practice as an educator. Please feel free to browse through this e-portfolio and if you have any questions or comments regarding it's content please feel free to contact me. Educators that would like to utilize any of the content on this page for their own classroom may feel free to do so, so long as proper credit is given.
My Online Classroom (Structure Demo)
This screencast will give you a quick glimpse inside my Online Classroom designed in Moodle.
Click here to take the Online Classroom tour!
Click here to take the Online Classroom tour!
The Digital Textbook
Five different 7th grade World Studies classes worked asynchronously to create a Digital Textbook chapter about the First Agricultural Revolution. 163 students composed and edited this one Google Doc. Headings were provided by me, but the rest is all them.
Click here to view the Digital Textbook!
Click here to view the Digital Textbook!
Globalization Blog Post
This lesson is designed to be a capstone project that will allow students to demonstrate their understanding of globalization at the end of a geography unit on East Asia. The project also introduces students to the idea of blogging as a means to communicate ideas. Students are assessed on their understanding of social studies content, in addition to this digital communication skill.
Click here to view the Globalization Persuasive Blog Post Project
Click here to view the Globalization Persuasive Blog Post Project
Political Parody (A Lesson on Copyright and Fair Use)
This lesson is designed to prepare students for creating their own creative works by teaching them about copyright and fair use policy. This lesson should be given toward the start of a term as it is an ideological framework that should be applied to all published works.
Click here to view the Political Parody Lesson Plan
Click here to view the Political Parody Lesson Plan
Political Parody
Political Blogging WebQuest
In this WebQuest, students are given the challenge of becoming a political blogger. They create their own blog and then conduct research to write an opinionated blog post. This lesson is meant to establish blogging as a classroom fixture to be revisited throughout the given course.
Click here to view the Political Blogging WebQuest
Click here to view the Political Blogging WebQuest
Political Blogging WebQuest
Distributing Resources StAIR
This PowerPoint presentation was created in kiosk mode, and is designed to be a stand alone instructional resource. Students may work through this assignment at their own pace and may directly interact with the presentation to measure their understanding of the content.
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Distributing Resources StAIR
