More things 7 and 8...

I used the relfection sentence starters that I found with the RPC to monitor my students' progress on HD. I used a variety of senteces, but the one I liked the best was "I need help with...so, I will..." I thought this was a great sentence because it got the kids to identify an issue and then how they will solve it. They didn't just complain but they had to think out how to solve the problem. Many of the kids' solutions were things like..."I will blog about it"..."I will try ask.com" or "dogpile.com"..."I will try the media center databases"...I was so pleased that kids were referring to the tools that I had demonstrated for them. Without this reflection I would have never known how they wer using the tools. This showed me how important reflection is as a part of the research process.