3-8-09

The Adolescent Experience Adelphi University Spring 2009 Professor George Maurer gmaurer22@gmail.com

"Punchlist"...Previous Class Expectations Today we will begin a series of discussions about various Web 2.0 tools. The purpose of these discussions is to expose you to new technologies and the ways in which they are being used in classrooms. In order to get a better handle on how to use these tools, you will need to begin to work with them...in a true [|constructivist] manner! These tools will become part of your culminating activity for this class, which is to design a unit of study using the project based learning model.
 * Discussion on 3 Interactive Chapter Summaries
 * Discussion on 2 Mini-Project Presentations
 * Blogs
 * Wikis
 * Podcasts
 * Screencasts
 * RSS
 * Social Book Marking
 * GMAIL
 * Google Docs
 * Google Reader
 * Sharing and collaborating on ideas pertaining to 21st Century Education and Technology


 * 1.Opening Thoughts || 2.Google Tools || 3.Shift Happens || 4.Blogging ||
 * 5.Wikis || 6.Multimedia Tools || 7.The Read / Write Web || 8.Final Thoughts ||

For Today...Designing our Project-Based Learning Unit For Next Class...
 * Review the following pages and complete the tasks to help in planning your project
 * Get your feet wet - page 38 - Review of what others have done with PBL
 * Skills of PBL - page 47 - Analyze, Evaluate, Create
 * Design your project - pages 67-68
 * Create a project sketch - page 69
 * Create an asset map on your wiki - page 70
 * Establish a project space - page 91
 * Finish __Reinventing Project-Based Learning__
 * Read Chapters 6&7 in __What Every Middle School Teacher Should Know__