Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition

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  • Enahance students' understanding of the relationship between effort and achievement by addressing students' attitudes and beliefs about learning.
  • Provide students with rewards or praise for their accomplishments related to the attainment of a goal.

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Generalizations From Research

  1. Not all students realize the importance of believing in effort.
  2. Students can learn to operate from a belief that effort pays off even if they do not initially have this belief.
  3. Rewards do not necessarily have a negative effect on intrinsic motivation.
  4. Reward is most effective when it is contingent on the attainment of some standard of performance.
  5. Abstract symbolic recognition (praise) is more effective than tangible rewards (candy, money).

Examples

  • Class Website with student work
  • Electronic Portfolios

Recommendations & Ideas

  1. Personalize recognition
  2. Use the “Praise, Prompt, and Praise” strategy
  3. Use concrete symbols of recognition
  4. Explicitly teach students about the importance of effort
  5. Ask students to keep track of their effort in relationship to achievement

Web 2.0 Tools

Writing, Note Taking, and Presentation Tools

Spreadsheet and Database Tools

Mind and Concept Mapping Tools

  • Gliffy - Online tools that allows users to create and save diagrams, graphic organizers, flow charts
  • Think42 - Insert description here

Blogging Tools

  • Blogger - Blog hosting service (****)
  • EduBlogs - Blog hosting service (****)
  • WordPress - Blog hosting service (*****)
  • Technorati - Search the blogosphere
  • coComment - Collect, organize, and share online conversations across blogs

Wiki Tools

  • Wikispaces - Wiki hosting service (****)
  • pbWiki - Wiki hosting service (****)
  • Wikia - Wiki hosting service (***)

Communication Tools

  • Gabbly - Chat tool
  • Skype - Chat (text, voice, video) tool (*****)
  • YackPack - Voice messaging tool (***)

Social Bookmarking Tools

Project Management Tools

  • Basecamp - Online project collaboration (****)
  • Backpackit - Online personal organizer (****)
  • iOutliner - Organize tasks and projects online
  • Schoopy - Classroom organization tool

Other

Another List

This list needs some cleanup and integration with the others. Apologies for the messy. 


  1. Twitter
  2. Ning
  3. Zotero
  4. Slideshare
  5. Secondbrain
  6. Flickr (Flickr Storm)
  7. Wordpressor Blogger
  8. Wetpaintor Wikispaces
  9. Delicious
 10. Moodle
 11. Second Life
 12. RSS with Google Reader
 13. Google Earth
 14. Gcast or Evoka
 15. Sketchcast
 16. Animoto
 17. Voicethread
 18. Document Cameras
 19. interactive whiteboards & clickers
 20. tablets
 21. handhelds
 22. skitch
 23. google docs
 24. pageflakes/netvibes/igoogle
 25. ustream
 26. Poll Everywhere
 27. Yugma
 28. WebHuddle
 29. Google Sketchup
 30. Jing
 31. WizIQ
 32. Bubbleshare
 33. Skype
 34. Limesurvey
 35. Evernote
 36. Chatzy
 37. Jam Studio
 38. Comiqs
 39. Fleck
 40. YouTube Channels
 41. MIT OpenCourse
 42. PicLens
 43. Zoho

Examples from Teachers, Students, Classrooms, Schools

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