ET630 Agenda Class 10

• Questions and Announcements
  • Don't forget to register for Spring classes
  • Project 2 Due Today (for those in need of structure)
  • Questions
• Sign up for a Project Presentation Date on Blackboard
• Sign in to Blackboard
• Go to Course Documents
• Choose the Project Presentation Signup
• Click on the word Edit (in blue on the right side of the screen)
• Replace one of the underlines with your name
• Sexual Predators
  • Read these articles
    • Real information about sexual predators
    • Lions, Tigers, and Predators, Oh My
  • Discuss
• Social Networking and Virtual Worlds for Kids
  • Webkinz
  • Club Penguin
  • Whyville
  • 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?
• Work Time
• Assignments:
  • Prepare a Project Presentation

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This page was prepared by: David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.

Last updated: November 21, 2008