4-1-09

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

Review of expectations from last class:
 * Review and respond to at least three different chapter summaries from __This We Believe.__
 * Begin reading __Reinventing Project Based Learning__ chapters 1-3.
 * Mini-project:
 * Find a partner or triad
 * Choose topic
 * The Adolescent Child
 * Orientation Program - 5th to 6th or 8th to 9th
 * Bullying
 * Advisory Period
 * Team Building Activities
 * School-Family Communication
 * Other?
 * Due to your outstanding leadership skills and use of best practices in the classroom, you have been asked by your building principal to create a 10-15 minute presentation to be given at your next faculty meeting.
 * Criteria:
 * Begin with essential questions
 * Display information on a wiki
 * Provide links to other information
 * Create associated discussion tab question(s)
 * Can have embedded video, audio, documents or slideshows

Click here for the Mini-Project Page

Moving forward...the big picture!

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.
 * 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 ||