One example of a mini lesson that you can do is how to print out your science fair slides in Chrome, (I did this as a mini lesson.) What you do is you do a give-me-five and tell everyone what the mini lesson you are doing is and take them to a corner or somewhere out of the way. (I forgot to do that so make sure you take them to a corner.) Then you are going to tell them what to do so in this case you would go to your slide and go to file, then download as, then its a PDF document. Then it downloads and is on the bottom of your screen, then you open it it will come up in a tab. (Which you don't need.) Then it will either be in your downloads folder or the desktop. and you drag it to the desktop if it is in your downloads folder. Next you double click on it and it should open Adobe Acrobat and the little print symbol will be in the top left hand corner. You then click on it and select the printer, (room 128 ricoh if its in black and white, color is LMC color printer one or two.), you select the pages you want to print, then custom scale 70% so it fits on our backboard.
This mini-lesson was really important because people didn't know how to print out the slides they needed. So Mr. Solarz told one person (me) how to do it and so I went into a corner and did a Mini-lesson on how to print the slides. You needed your Science Fair slides for the presentation so it was really important we got this was only in Chrome so I'm not exactly sure how to do it in Firefox. But my guess would be that it would be similar to Chrome. If this Mini-lesson wasn't done at all Mr. Solarz would have to do a mini lesson on it. This would then waste more time that we could be spending making our slides and backboards.
This Mini-lesson makes us a student led classroom because when someone else does a Mini-lesson you have a choice to keep working or to go find out what the Mini-lesson is, if you are interested. But when Mr. Solarz does one everyone has to stop what we are doing and make everyone listen you have to watch his Mini-lessons, because he does them when we can't figure something out. The teacher would then have to waste everyone's time (except for those who need it) instead of a kid doing one where you can not listen, it is your choice if a kid does one.
This mini-lesson was really important because people didn't know how to print out the slides they needed. So Mr. Solarz told one person (me) how to do it and so I went into a corner and did a Mini-lesson on how to print the slides. You needed your Science Fair slides for the presentation so it was really important we got this was only in Chrome so I'm not exactly sure how to do it in Firefox. But my guess would be that it would be similar to Chrome. If this Mini-lesson wasn't done at all Mr. Solarz would have to do a mini lesson on it. This would then waste more time that we could be spending making our slides and backboards.
This Mini-lesson makes us a student led classroom because when someone else does a Mini-lesson you have a choice to keep working or to go find out what the Mini-lesson is, if you are interested. But when Mr. Solarz does one everyone has to stop what we are doing and make everyone listen you have to watch his Mini-lessons, because he does them when we can't figure something out. The teacher would then have to waste everyone's time (except for those who need it) instead of a kid doing one where you can not listen, it is your choice if a kid does one.
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