ET630 Agenda Class 8

• Questions and Announcements
  • Project updates
  • Web 2.0 Projects were returned
    
  • Critical Information Literacy Project is due tonight
    
  • Telecollaborative and Web Site Projects are due in two
    
• Class Summary Update
• Jess and Sarah are tonight
• Mandy and Amy are next class
  
• Be sure to comment each class
• Questions
• Guest Speaker Next Week via Skype
• Read http://www.boothbayregister.com/article/across-great-divide/8590
  
• Peruse http://www.usaus-h2o.org/
  
• Our guest speaker will be participating in this project this spring
• Come prepared next week with two questions for the speaker
  
• Social Networking and Virtual Worlds for Kids
  • Webkinz
  • Club Penguin
  • Whyville
  • Scuttlepad (was down for maintenance when I tried it)
  • Everloop
  • Kidzworld
  • GiantHello
    
  • 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?
• Newspapers on the Internet (time permitting)
  • Google News Search
  • Links to Newspapers around the World
    
  • Online Newspapers around the World
  • Refdesk List of Newspapers
    
  • Listing of English Language Newspapers Around the World
  • Front Pages of over 700 Newspapers from 76 Countries
    
  • The New York Times (USA)
  • The Irish Times (Ireland)
  • The Melbourne Age (Australia)
  • The Jerusalem Post (Israel)
  • The Namibian (Namibia)
  • The Mail and Guardian (South Africa)
• Separating Editorial Content from Advertising
  • Amazon.com (see New York Times article)
• In-class Activity
• In groups of 2 or 3, look through several U.S. and international newspapers and write the top three headlines for your World newspaper
• We will spend a few minutes on this; you should think about how you might expand this to your classroom
• Assignments
• Prepare for guest speaker
  

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

Last updated: March 5, 2013