Week 3 - Doing Online Research
When we, Julie and Paul, started planning the third week of our work together, we reminded ourselves of one of our primary goals for this Institute. We want you to feel comfortable in joining a group or groups of teachers who are using some of the same tools that we’ve been playing with together this summer:
- social networks http://youthvoices.netwikis http://youthwiki.wikispaces.com
- twitter http://twitter.com and twitter-like networks http:youthtwitter.com
- VoiceThread http://ttt.ed.voicethread.com
- Hypertextopia http://hypertextopia.com
- Skype http://skype.com to be able to participate on “Teachers Teaching Teachers” on Wed. nights http://edtechtalk.com
And, as always, there’s never enough time. Google apps, social bookmarking with del.icio.us… there’s more. Instead of trying to throw in the kitchen sink this week, we thought we would introduce the three tools that might be most important in helping you to stay connected and to continue learning with us in the fall.
On Monday morning we will invite you to use Google Reader, tumblr, and a Wikispaces site to build your own personal learning network. We want you to use these tools tools as a “scrapbook” to pull together ideas for classroom work and/or personal projects. There are many other tools, resources and project ideas in Reinventing Project-Based Learning that you might want to use as well. We will be brainstorming what else we might want to learn together, developing explorations that are connected to each other. We want to work both with looking at new tools, but more importantly, thinking about how those tools serve larger purposes, like “how do I create community in my school?” or “how do I become a better poetry teacher?” or “How can I help kids learn to speak/listen/read/write about topics they really care about, and how does that fit into my curriculum?” or “Which is more important,
Typical Day (Week Three)
9:00 - 9:30 Community Meeting in Room 228 with Curriculum Talk
9:30 - 9:50 Blog responding and posting (on our ning, on Twitter, and on tumblr); Room 236
10:00 - 11:30 Workshop: Interactive Content, Case Studies, Troubleshooting, Questions, Application/Conversation
11:30 - 12:15 Lunch
12:15 - 1:30 Individual and Small Group Projects, Work Time, Designing Projects, Exploration, Play
1:30 - 2:00 Online Reflection and Connection (on our Ning, Twitter, tumblr and wiki)
Week 3 - Doing Online Research
Tools, strategies or concepts we will be discussing this week:
- Questions
- Microblogging (tumblr)
- Tagging and Keywords
- Blogging
- RSS
- Aggregators
- Wikis
- Collaborative writing
- Professional networks
Monday, July 14
9:00 - 9:30 Community Meeting in Room 228 with Curriculum Talk
9:30 - 9:50 Responding to each other’s blog posts Room 236
Introduction to tumblr, 10 Self / 10 World Questions (with 3 keywords for each question)
10:00 - 11:30 Workshop: Using Google Reader
11:30 - 12:15 Lunch
12:15 - 1:30 Individual and Small Group Projects, Work Time, Designing Projects, Exploration, Play
1:30 - 2:00 Online Reflection and Connection (on our Ning, Twitter, tumblr and wiki)
