ET630 Agenda Class 9
- Questions and Announcements
- All Web 2.0 Projects were returned
- All projects are due at the beginning of next class
- Don't forget to check your Loyola email (or Blackboard) to fill out course evaluations
- Questions
- VoiceThread Update
- Don't forget to respond to the VoiceThread each week (responses
don't have to be long)
- Eileen and Megan are tonight
- No VoiceThread next time
- Project Presenations (not necessarily in this order)
- Janet
- Joe (maybe)
- Next time:
- Keith Janelli
- Sarah McGuire
- Iffeisha Gordon-Toppin
- Jackie Mueller
- Kristen Bennett
- Katie Stanton
- Cara Scott
- Charlene Linkous
- Steve Ammann
- Monica Chuppetta
- Aime Sheinhorn
- Eileen Volker
- Megan Gerretson
- Social Networking and Virtual Worlds for Kids
- Webkinz
- Club Penguin
- Whyville
- Togetherville
- Read this thread from the EdTech listserv: http://tinyurl.com/36f5gp
- In small groups, pick one site and discuss the pros and cons
of that site
- Be sure to explore as much as you can without a login (or
create one if you can)
- Check out parents areas and virtual tours
- Think about what the main purpose of the site is
(education, marketing, socialization, training for the future, etc.)
- Think about Kevin Jarrett's comments from EdTech that
this is the wave of the future
- If this is the wave of the future, is this is the right
way to prepare children for that wave?
- What are we giving up by jumping on this wave?
- Online Discussions
- Types
- Asynchronous vs. Synchronous
- Push vs. Pull
- Web-based vs. non-web-based
- Listservs
- Discussion Boards
- Asynchronous
- Pull
- Available to our class through Blackboard
- Newsgroups
- Web-based Chat
- Synchronous
- Chat
Avenue
- Talk
City (includes chat and discussion boards)
- Yahoo
Messenger Chat (requires Yahoo Messenger and is no longer
Web-based)
- Search for teacher chat in any search engine and
you might find:
- What are the pros and cons of synchronous discussions
(chats)?
- WebQuests
- Introductory PowerPoint (available in Moodle)
- WebQuest Resources
- Templates
- Places to create WebQuests
- QuestGarden
(used to be free, but now they charge)
- Use a template and post it to any web site
- Places to find pre-made WebQuests
- In-class Activity
- Think about the six features of a WebQuest
- Authentic
- Challenging Task
- Based on Essential Question
- Collaborative Approach
- Involves Higher-order Thinking Skills
- Scaffolding to Manage and Synthesize Information
into Knowledge
- Think about your Critical Information Literacy Project
- How are they similar and how are they different?
- Could you have done your project as a WebQuest?
- Work Time
- Assignments:
- Hand in all projects
- Respond to VoiceThread
This page was prepared by: David
M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Last updated: January 26, 2011
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