Day+4

Structuring learning experiences that use Internet resources:

 * Demo -- (p. 83 has some sample RSS feeds) Set up RSS aggregator -- [|iGoogle] or [|Google Reader]


 * Set up a feed by adding a 'Bloglist' on your blog; follow your 12 o'clock partner. Over the course of the next several days, add a comment to three posts from your 12 o'clock partner's blog (for more information see assignments in [|Sakai)].

(12 o'clock partners) Thinkfinity in Wordle.net : [] Thinkfinity: [|http://www.thinkfinity.org/] > 
 * Overview on Thinkfinity
 * Search for a Thinkfinity lesson on a topic you teach that incorporates technology
 * On a page in your personal wiki:
 * Search for and record 1 interesting lesson that you found
 * type a short overview of the lesson and why you liked it (or what you would change about it)
 * Search for and record the URL of 3 interesting interactives that you found
 * Pick one interactive:
 * type a short overview of the what the interactive does
 * type a few reasons you like it
 *  type one example of how you would embed the use of this interactive in a lesson
 * Rob || George || LaShanda || Carol ||
 * Melanie || Omeka || Aaron || Alicia ||
 * Christine || Tom || Jen || Kate ||
 * Nikki || Mona ||  ||   ||
 * Nikki || Mona ||  ||   ||

More Structures for Online Student Activities :
 * Web Resource Page (one lesson)
 * Example:[| Preparing to read //The Hunterman and the Crocodile//]
 * Web DIG (one-two lesson)
 * Example: [|Underground Railroad]
 * Example:[| How a Bill Becomes a Law]
 * [|Official Web DIG Page]
 * Virtual Field Trips
 * Virtual Field Trips: [] (old fashioned)
 * Beaver Dam: []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Online Field Trips Boost Reading Scores](updated)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Thinkport.org] -- click on Classroom --> online field trips
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Edutopia.org best virtual field trip (2007)]
 * (Aside) Some 'virtual explorations' raw material: []


 * Student Created Web Sites
 * Thinkquest: "Students work in teams to build innovative and educational websites to share with the world. Along the way, they learn research, writing, teamwork, and technology skills and compete for exciting prizes."[| http://www.thinkquest.org/]
 * An example ThinkQuest: Living on the Brink:[| http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02242/]
 * Another example ThinkQuest: Cybercrime: Piercing the Darkness: [|http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00460/]


 * <span class="wiki_link_ext">(Aside) Web Adventures (interesting online resource) [| http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/adventure.php:]
 * [|Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull]
 * [|Harvest of History]
 * [|My Pop Studio]
 * [|WolfQuest: Amethyst Mountain Deluxe]
 * [|Betwixt Folly and Fate]

Assignments:
 * Read: Ch. 6 Social Bookmarking
 * Curriculum Topic Due (more info in Assignments in Sakai)
 * First comment on 12 o'clock partner's blog due (more info in Assignments in Sakai)

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