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
  - Asynchronous
  - Push
- Discussion Boards
  - Asynchronous
  - Pull
  - Available to our class through Blackboard
  - Newsgroups
    - http://groups.google.com/
- 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:
    - http://teachers.net/chatrooms/one/
      - There was actually some education-related conversation when I last year; no one was there when I visited yesterday.
      - Also check out the discussion boards at http://teachers.net/mentors/
    - http://www.tappedin.org/
      - Includes projects and special chat events
- What are the pros and cons of synchronous discussions (chats)?
WebQuests
- Introductory PowerPoint (available in Moodle)
- WebQuest Resources
  - Introduction to WebQuests
  - The WebQuest Portal (from the inventor of the idea, Bernie Dodge)
  - The Learning Power of WebQuests
  - The Teacher's Role in CyberSpace
  - Steps in designing a WebQuest
- Templates
  - WebQuest Template
  - Another WebQuest Template
  - My Simplified WebQuest Template (easy to edit in HTML)
  - Find examples that you can borrow such as
    - http://webquest.sdsu.edu/designpatterns/all.htm
- 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
  - http://webquest.org/ - click on Find WebQuests (after search, highest rated are at the top)
  - http://bestwebquests.com/ - only top rated ones
  - Search the web (google gets over 1 million--hits on the word "WebQuest")
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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