ET630 Agenda Class 9

• Questions and Announcements
  • Registration for Spring 2009 started today: register early and register often
  • Questions
• Web 2.0 Sharing
• Almost all of you have completed part of your Web 2.0 project
• However, as of last week, the range was very large
• Pick one interesting thing you learned about Web 2.0 so far and come to the front and tell us about it
  • If you can, show us how to do something
  • In about 2 minutes
• Wikipedia and Critical Information Literacy Discussion
  • Pick a topic about which you know something
  • Explore the entry for that topic on Wikipedia
  • Was the article accurate; how do you know?
  • Would you use this as a source of information for your students?
  • What would be the most useful way to use it?
  • Based on ideas from Andy Carvin (see http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2005/07/turning_wikiped.html)
• Information Literacy Standards for Students
  • Video
  • Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning
  • Information Literacy Standards
• Other Web Spaces for You
  • Tripod
    • Case sensitive, banner ad or pop-up ad on your home page, must update monthly (in theory)
    • Get an account at http://www.tripod.lycos.com/
    • Owned by Lycos
  • GeoCitites
    • Includes ad frame on the right of your page
    • Get an account at http://geocities.yahoo.com/
    • Owned by Yahoo
  • Your School
  • Your Own ISP
  • Buy Space
    • http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/
    • http://www.tripod.lycos.com/
    • http://www.godaddy.com/
    • When this question came up last week on the Ed Tech Listserv, the following were recommended:
    • http://Bluehost.com
    • http://ninehub.com
    • http://www.siteground.com/
    • http://wiki.lunarpages.com/Free_Education_Account
    • ...and thousands more
• Work Time
• Assignments:
  • Think About a Project Presentation

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Last updated: November 14, 2008