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Uncovering the Dark Side Blog!!!!


1. Target Audience: Two computer courses at Msgr. Edward Pace High School, Computer Applications I and Computer applications II. The classes consist of 20 girls and 20 boys. There are 18 freshmen, 6 sophomores, 5 juniors and 11 seniors.

2. Materials: Computers, Internet connection (preferably high speed), Google Account, v

3. Objectives:
• Students will produce a written blog comment evaluating a Web2.0 tools based on predetermined criteria.
• Students will discover the usefulness of 1 or more Web 2.o tools to help them in education.

4. Procedure –
• Teacher will create a blog and each student must sign up and participate.
• Student will engage in a contest for the blog name.
• Students will create a flyer to advertise the blog to student body.
• Students will use their Google account to sign up for the blog.
• Students will write an evaluation of various Web 2.0 tools and post to the blog and respond to at least one comment.


5. Web 2.0 Tool – Blogger is the web 2.0 tool of choice for this particular
assignment.


6. Social Participation/Social Learning –Students votes will be tabulated via survey to determine if the web 2.0 tools have made students more successful in reaching assignments objectives. Students will collaborate on a project to produce a deliverable to present the tool to the school. The classes will vote and the winners Web 2.0 project will be shared with the school at large.

7. Making Connections – The lesson allows the learner to connect with previous experiences of school and determine rather the Web 2.0 tools introduced will help them be successful in school. The blog post and deliverables are designed to assist the learner in determining rather the Web 2.0 tool is relevant to their education or not. The design of the assessment causes the learner to state the relevancy for them.


8. Create/Produce - Each student will create a blog comment and respond to least one comment. Students will also have the opportunity to produce a project may be presented the Web 2.0 to the entire school.



9. Assessment –Rubistar.com The blog post and comment are assessed on the following criteria:
• Description of tools usefulness or lack of usefulness to their educational world.
• Description of why Web tool could be useful or not to other student’s educational environments.
• How much time does it take to become proficient with the tool. Explanation of recommendation or regret.
Blogging Web 2.0 tool Assessments - Writing a great Blog


• Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences of various Web 2.0 tools.
• Discover and explore- usefulness of web 2.0 tools for themselves and classmates share.
• Clarify and extend- pose areas for further discussion on blog, engage peers in discussions on topics.
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• Guiding Questions/Statements
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• After Learning and experiencing a Web 2.0 tool write a blog post that demonstrates:
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• Justification your opinion/point of view
• - Support with examples from personal experiences and the experiences of others.
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• Shows consideration of other points of view
• - Examine the tool from an opposing point of view, what are the pros to their arguments?
• - Ask yourself, how do others' opinions affect your point of view?
• - Explore the differences in your opinions further. Where can you get more information on the issue/topic? What do you now know that you didn't before you started the process?
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• Shows deeper understanding (reflection) of the issue and draws conclusions
• - After considering the usefulness of the tool and listening to others, how do you see this Web 2.0 Tool?
• - Do you see it in another way? How has listening to others and considering other sources affected your view on Web 2.0 Tool? Why did it change/not change your mind?



How will you be marked?

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Web 2.0 Blog Assessment

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Justifies own opinion/point of view on usefulness of Web 2.0 tool
Opinion is shared and is supported with insightful, carefully selected details linked to reasonable assumptions Opinion is shared with details, which are supported with links to examples. Opinion is given with only partial details provided. Links to supporting viewpoints are limited. Statements are given but little or no support of opinion is evident.





Shows deeper understanding of Web 2.0 tool and draws conclusions. Reflections and conclusions reached are insightful and perceptive. Reflections and conclusions reached are meaningful and thoughtful. Reflection and conclusions of personal learning is simplistic and general. Reflection contains little or no new personal insights/conclusions about the explored.

Modified from Rubricstar.com


Reflection –The last deliverable for the class is a reflection on the entire class and students may chose from: Quizlet, Prezi, Wonder Wheel, Google Docs, Google Presentation, Jing, Google Reader, I Google, Etc… I would like to post my final reflection as a video.

BP_5 Blogger is Awesome.

Blogger has the ability to add a feature that will list all of the blogs you subscribe to. Not only can you do list of blogs but websites may be listed as well. The list appears with a snippet from the blog or website you have subscribed to. The list feature in Blogger will allow the posting of snippets that you may want you student to follow or view. The feature may be used if you have a class blog as well to list all or some of them.

Check this out, this is for anyone who likes to use podcast. Blogger has the ability to to turn your blog into a podcast. Your podcast can be posted right into your blog. If students subscribe to your blog they get your podcast as well without any additional work.

I didn't know that we are able to add are favorite Google gadgets/widget to our blog. I know have the ability to add a quote of the day for reflection from my students. A TO Do List may be added to remind students of exactly must be posted or I can post the rubric on the to do list. There is language translator for Foreign Language teacher. My students and I are collaborating on the building of the class blog. Check back and see the cool things we are using that you may have never thought about including in a blog. I'm searching for the allusive talking avatar for blogs. There is a site call Voki that will allow you to create talking avatars. I can't wait to see the talking avatars my students create. Stay tuned, I will review Voki in the future.

BP_4BLOGGER

Blogger is the Web 2.0 tool I have chosen. Blogging has great potential to engage students. I have NEVER used a blog to assess students knowledge or used a blog for reflection. Blogs are definitely a web 2.0 tool because of the students ability to publish to the web and others may comment directly to the publication. I thought blogs were a good idea for subjects like English and history because of writing assessments and reflections respectfully.I have learned that blogs have great potential in all subjects. I recently learned some really creative strategies and thought a blog would be a great way to deliver the material, engage my students, and assess knowledge, if this was possible.This Blog post is a guest into the world of Blogging to see how i might use a blog.

BP_7 Keep vid extra

Here is a tool I reviewed before that teachers just loved.

BP7_GOOGLE WONDER WHEEL!

 

Here is a great research tool in the Google applications that I don't believe many people know about.

I found about the wonder wheel, so aptly named, at FETC in a workshop given by Dr, Howard Diblasi, Thanks so much. It's really usefull 

BP6_COMMENT TO CHRISTINE

Check out my comment to Christine about a a really sweet money management tool. I have posted suggestions on how business teachers may use this tool. Interested click here!!!!