5-6-09

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

Today we will continue our 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 ||

Expectations from last 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
 * Screencasting....how will your project include this element? Pages 104-106
 * How will you share your story? Pages 111-112
 * Podcasting...how will your project include this element? Pages 121-122

For Today... [|Tuning Protocol] - how to make a good project (or lesson) even better through collective review.
 * //__Project Presentation__//**