Process+Information

Processing Information

During and after reading, many students need assistance with processing the content, ideas, and skills to which they have been introduced. The following suggestions for helping students process information. Processing activities should be fairly short (1/2 - 1 class period, for example) and fairly interesting, should concentrate on key principles.

__Activities for Processing__
 * Learning Logs / Journals (Think about blogs)
 * Graphic Organizers (Mind Mapping/Webbing)
 * Games

[|www.visuwords.com] Online Graphic Dictionary (UK spelling)

=Graphic Organizers=

**1. Graphic Organizers**

 * [[image:eettactiveliteracy:21st-century-rwt.gif]] ||

........ [|http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat] ||
 * [[image:eettactiveliteracy:WebspirationLogo.jpg width="233" height="128"]] ||

....... [|www.mywebspiration.com] || ...... [] || ...... [|www.lovelycharts.com] ||
 * [[image:eettactiveliteracy:bubbleus-logo.png width="239" height="53"]] ||
 * [[image:eettactiveliteracy:lovelycharts.png width="253" height="62"]] ||


 * Games**


 * [|Class Tools]. Teachers and students can create lots of learning activities using formats from popular 1980’s arcade games.
 * Power Point Games,
 * [|Power Point Games 2]


 * [|Free Rice] Vocabulary-building exercise -- difficulty level adjusts based on previous answers
 * Voices of Spoon River - @http://cle.usu.edu/CLE_IF_VOSR.html

Games for Change
Games meant to “effect positive social change”
 * The WFP’s Food Force - [|http://www.food-force.com]
 * Third World Farmer - []
 * Sim- Sweatshop - []
 * Darfur Is Dying - @http://www.darfurisdying.com/
 * Ayiti: The Cost of Life - @http://www.unicef.org/voy/explore/rights/explore_3142.html