Thursday October 1: Social Bookmarking

We will be sharing and creating knowledge without the restrictions or cost of text books. Social bookmarking is one of the tools we will employ to find a share information.

1. Register for Delicious.

2. Add me to your network my user name is dllb123.

3. Go to my bookmarks. Find the bookmark titled "YouTube - Social Bookmarking in Plain English" We will watch the video together.

4. Add Delicious to your navigation structure (links) in your blog.

5. Of particular interest to me is how you acquire, archive, tag, and share resources that you believe will enhance your productivity as an educator. To do this, type in the key worlds "Web 2.0 education" from the list of returns find a resource that you think may be useful to you as a educator. Bookmark it. Share it with me through Delicious. Make a blog posting that lets me know why you chose this resource and how you may use it as an educator. The resource may be either a learning or productivity tool for yourself, or for your your students, or both.

Due: Tuesday October 6

Tuesday September 29: Create a Student Work Sample.

Today you will create a sample artifact that a student would create as a result of your WebQuest. Please post the sample artifact to your blog.
Due Date: October 1

Thursday September 24: Evaluate WebQuests

1. Using the WebQuest rubric read two of your classmates WebQuests and provide them with feedback.
3. Fill out the form below so I will know which students you provided with feeback. If a student already has two comments please find another student to provide feedback to.
Homework:
1.Using feeback from your peers make revisions to your WebQuest.

2. Read "What Would Socrates Say?". Make a blog posting titled "Would Socrates approve of WebQuests? Give three reasons why or why not. Use the article to justify your answer.
Use the WebQuest Taxonomy and identify what kind of task your WebQuest is designed around. Include this information in your posting.
Due Monday 8:00 am.

Tuesday September 18: Create WebQuest

Make sure each WebQuest has students create an artifact with technology.

1. Use Google sites to build your WebQuest.
2. Set up navigation for WebQuest.
3. On the Home page Use both you first and last name in the title. In the body include the grade level, subject area and standards your WebQuest is design for. Also include which NETS-T performance indicators WebQuest design meet. Also inculde your contact infomration.
3. Rough drafts of your WebQuests are due Thursday 11:00am
4. Please make a blog posting linking us to your blog. Please do just copy and paste the url but highlight a word like "Click here" and link.

Thursday September 17: Finding a WebQuest

1. Announce winner of PhotoStory contest!

2. Discussion of what makes a good PhotoStory.

3. For your next assignment you will be creating a WebQuest using Google sites. Read this Webquest template to remind you of the purpose of a WebQuest. You do not have to create your own Webquest from scratch. You may adapt an exsting WebQuest by making a few changes. Click here for a guide to help you make adaptations to an existing WebQuest.

When you have identified the changes you want to make, create a blog posting that tells me what those changes are and why you want to make them. Use the rubric to justify your changes. Provide me with the title of the WebQest and link to it from you blog posting.

Here is a link to more WebQuest Resources.

Remember: Good WebQuest should have students created an artifact with technology (i.e. PowerPoint presentation, PhotoStory, digital book, digital poster)

This is Due Monday September 21 by 8:00am and is worth 5pts.

On Tuesday I will show you how to use Google sites to create a WebQuest.

PhotoStory

Webquest: Designing classroom activities with Internet resources

For your next assignment you will create a WebQuest. A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. The model was developed by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University in February, 1995 with early input from SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellow Tom March, the Educational Technology staff at San Diego Unified School District, and waves of participants each summer at the Teach the Teachers Consortium.Web Quests are scalable across all grade levels. WebQuests ARE NOT BORING TOPICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS. They often deal with ambiguity, and always combine higher order thinking and technology. WebQuests are interdisciplinary, often combining Language Arts, Science, Art, Math, Computer Technology. WebQuests require individuals and group members to create artifacts by following a carefully prescribed process that are a result of some information gathering or research on the Internet.

1.In groups of four complete the WebQuest about WebQuest.
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquestwebquest-ms.html.

2. As a group make a blog posting that tells which WebQuest your group decided was the best and why? Each member of the group may copy and paste the group blog posting into each of their blogs.

Homework:
View your all classmates PhotoStorys. Make comments on five PhotoStorys. If a person has already received five comments please comment on another PhotoStory. Send me a private message through Blackboard indicating which PhotoStory was the best and why. Please do this by 8:00am Thursday September 17.

Uploading Videos: Tuesday September 15

1.Publish your movie online. Huh? How? Where? you have options, you may upload your exported project (.wmv) file directly into your blog post using the "Insert Video" tool.

2. There are also commercial products for video storage. YouTube or Teacher Tube are examples of video storage services. YouTube is a service that is commonly blocked in K-12 schools. TeacherTube however is for educators and is typically assessible in schools. Please register for a TeachTube account and upload your video. Then provide me with a link to your video in the same blog posting in which you uploaded you video. This lets me know that you have the skills to upload and store videos with two different social media services.

See example below:

You may also view my video at:

"type url here"

Class Activities for Thursday September 10

1. Begin assembling your PhotoStory.

2. To save your project FTP it to your Fairmont State account. This will allow you to download it and work on it from home.

3. When you finish your project, Export your project as a movie. The My Video folder is a good option for storing your work on your computer. This will change your file from a PhotoStory project which have a ( .wp3 ) file extension to a Windows Media File (.wmv ) file extension. Please view your exported project (movie) by double clicking on it. It should open in Windows Media Player.

Homework:
1.Read "Orchestrating the Media Collage" by Jason Ohlerat at:
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/Orchestrating_the_Media_Collage.aspx

2. Make a blog posting that answers the question:
Should students be allowed to create multimedia project instead of writing papers in school (at least some of the time)? Be sure to justify your answer by referencing the reading and the NETS-T.

Due Date: Your PhotoStory and blog posting are due Tuesday September 15 Midnight.

Class Activities for Tuesday September 8

1. Publish resume and link to it to your blog.

2. Watch "Power of One".
http://sfett.com/html_movie/Ican4/the_power_of_one.html

3. Watch "Where We Are From".

5. My Best Teacher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm11DxpfdU8&feature=related

6. Copyright and Fair Use
http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.shtml#guide

7. Download PhotoStory. Short demonstration.

Project for this week:
This week you will create a PhotoStory titled "When I Become a Teacher" or "My Best Teacher". After viewing your PhotoStory I should have a good idea of what you think "good teaching" is. Your PhotoStory must include:

a. 5 photos

b. Music, narration, or both.

c. A quote that reflects your beliefs about good teaching.

Homework for Thursday:

Collect a least 5 images and find a quote that is representative of your beliefs about good teaching.

Class Activities for Thursday September 3

In Class:
* Put a picture on your blog page and in your gmail profile.I am a visual learner and I need
something other than a name on the class sheet to help me organize my thoughts.

*Log in to Gmail - go to your blog.

*Watch Video about Google docs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA

* FTP a document to the Fairmontstate server.
http://library.fairmontstate.edu/fsuftp.php

*Create a Google doc for a resume.

*Add a link list gaget and link to a favorite site.

Homework: Due Tuesday September 9
*Create a resume with Google docs and link to it from your blog.