Yay

Aubree left us a message on her blog!! Respond to it !!

11/24-11/26

This Week's Agenda:

Monday
1. Blog
2. What Mrs. M's presentation on Social Bookmarking
3. FINISH your wiki entries and prepare your presentations

PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS
For your presentation, imagine you are a teacher explaining your Web 2.0 element to your students.
1. Show your CommonCraft Video
2. Give us a tour of the various providers of your web 2.o element (the sites you like and don't like)
2. Explain how your web 2.0 element works (give a tutorial)
3. Explain how your peers might use it and how it might benefit them.
4. Give a review: Do you like? Yes/No why/why not?

Tuesday
1. Blog
2. Presentations

Wednesday
I don't think we have class today?? If we DO:
1. Blog
2. Work on your website!

Thursday
Happy Thanksgiving!!

11/20/08

1) Blog: Free blog!!

2) Web 2.0 Project! (EXPLORE AND EXPLAIN)
*RSS - Will
*Social Networking - Traci
*Blogging - Shelby
*Podcasts - Raymond (check out - http://manners.quickanddirtytips.com/, http://www.radiolingua.com/, AND ITUNES)

3) REMEMBER TO TAKE NOTES AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ON THE WIKI!!!
YOU CAN NOT PLAGARIZE YOU MUST WRITE YOUR ANSWERS IN YOUR OWN WORDS!!!

11/19/08

1) Blog: Write a blog to Aubree. (Aubree.. Write a blog to us)

2) Web 2.0 Project! (EXPLORE AND EXPLAIN)
*RSS - Will
*Social Bookmarking - Aubree
*Social Networking - Traci
*Blogging - Shelby
*Podcasts - Raymond (check out - http://manners.quickanddirtytips.com/, http://www.radiolingua.com/, AND ITUNES)

3) REMEMBER TO TAKE NOTES AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ON THE WIKI!!!

11/18/08

1) Blog: Free blog!

2) Web 2.0 Project! (EXPLORE AND EXPLAIN)
*RSS - Will
*Social Bookmarking - Aubree
*Social Networking - Traci (Check out: Friendster and Gaia Online
*Blogging - Shelby
*Podcasts - Raymond

3) REMEMBER TO TAKE NOTES AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ON THE WIKI!!!

11/17/08

1) DO NOT Blog: Instead, PURGE your blog of inappropriate material!!

2) Web 2.0 Project! (EXPLORE AND EXPLAIN)
*RSS - Will
*Social Bookmarking - Aubree
(check out Furl, StumbleUpon, Diigo, Blinklist, Social Marker)
*Social Networking - Traci
*Blogging - Shelby
*Podcasts - Raymond

3) REMEMBER TO TAKE NOTES AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ON THE WIKI!!!

11/14/08

TGIF!! - Website Day!

1) Blog - FREE BLOG (except for Ray - who must write about what he thinks web 2.0 is)
2) Continue fixing your website!!

Monday: Web 2.0 Project again!

11/12/08

Today's Agenda

1) Blog: Ok, so what is Web 2.0?

2) Listen to Mrs. Martineau about the Websites!

3) Discussion: Web 2.0

* Old Web vs. Web 2.0

4) Continue working on web 2.0 project:
* Add 2 sites that helped you come up with your definition of web 2.0
* List 5 examples of web 2.0 sites (example: MYSPACE is a social networking site)
* List 2 ways web 2.0 can be used in education

5) When everyone is finished with defining Web 2.0 we will move on to the fun project :) yay!

11/11/08

Change of Plans

Our network administrator (Mr. Wilson) is working on the school network starting at 3:00! So internet won't work much longer after 3:00! So, our agenda for today is as follows:

1)Blog- QUICK! QUICK! QUICK! - Save often!
2)Open the "Website Instructions" file on the "O" drive
3)Listen to Mrs. M explain the website instructions
4)Fix our websites

11/10/08

Hey Everyone! It's a nice new day!! AND A MONDAY! YAY!
Here is today's schedule

1. Blog
2. Research "Web 2.0" and add your own definition (written in your own words) to our wiki. (Remember to take turns)
3. Add 2 sites that helped you come up with your definition
4. List 5 examples of web 2.0 sites (example: MYSPACE is a social networking site)
5. List 2 ways web 2.0 can be used in education

11/7/08

Today's Agenda

1) Blog
2) Conference call with Mr. Muck!!!
(we are editing/fixing our websites)

11/5/08

Today's Agenda

1) Blog - What confuses you about our class wiki so far??
2) Go to our Wiki
3) Read my comments on your personal page
4) Go to one other person's wiki page and leave a comment
5) Listen to me for a tutorial and further instructions!

11/4/08

Today's Agenda

1. Blog: What did you learn about wikis yesterday?
2. Continue to personalize your wiki.

You MUST add:
Text about yourself (Remember: nothing PERSONAL)
A picture of youself (if you have a digital one)
Links you like and are interested in

YOU MUST:
Make it your style
Change the font and colors

11/3/08

Today's Agenda:

We are starting a unit on Web 2.0 and Wikis. Your first assignment for today is to write a blog entry that defines 'wiki'. This should take you no more than 5 minutes. Just write what you can.

Answer the following questions as best you can and be prepared to share your answers in class:
1. What is a wiki?
2. Can you list any wikis you have used in the past? (Wikipedia, perhaps)
3. How do wikis function?

Give Mrs. Martineau the thumbs up when you are finished.
Sorry, no music in class today!