Day 31 - WebQuest 5

Few Announcements:
1. Today you are going to work on the last piece of WebQuest, teacher's page. In teacher's page, you need to include the following components: Purpose, Target Audiences, Curriuculum Standards, Prerequisites, Sugestions for Implementation, and Credits.
2. If any of your iMovie groups haven't sent me the names of team members, please send it to me TODAY.
3. If your iMovie group hasn't made a reservation for digital camcorder and tripod (if necessary) in OIT (Rm232), please do it TODAY.

For next Monday's class:
We will be wrapping up your WebQuest project and allow some time for formative evaluation from your classmates. Make sure that you complete 95% of your WebQuest project for collecting feedback from others.

Day 30 - WebQuest 4

By today, you and your team member should have finished the following components for the WebQuest project: introduction, task, and process page. In today's class, you can go ahead and start working on evaluation and process page. Please be reminded for this very useful website, which can help you with creating the rubrics for the tasks and questions that you assigned to your target audiences.
In your conclusion page, in addition to summarize the learned knowledge and skills, it will be more valuable when you provide the resources for future learning.
In your blog after today's session, please freely reflect your learning journal, your progress on the project, and the assignment between you and your team member.

Preparation for iMovie
For your next project, you will need 4-5 people in a group to work on your iMovie project. The topic of your project should address the curriculum standard in your chosen grade level and subject area upon the agreement withing your team members. After you identify your team members, please go to OIT (Rm 232) to reserve digital camcorder for filming. You will need the digital camcorder from April, 4 through April, 9.

For Friday's class:
Keep working on your WebQuest and complete the following pages: introduction, task, process, evaluation, and conclusion.

Day 29 - WebQuest 3

Now that you have completed the draft of introduction and task pages, how will you design the entire process section for your learners? Besides the websites that I introduced in the previous sessions, the Building Blocks of a WebQuest page will also help you to better understand the purpose of each. Today will mostly your group discussion and working time. This project will be due on Wednesday (April, 4).

Some Things to Consider:
Here are some questions to consider as you are working on your WebQuest, post the responses to these questions on your Blog:
*Is your WebQuest topic authentic in order to engage your students?
*Is your WebQuest task challenging and doable?
*Do your learners need to think independently and critically during the WebQuest activity?
*Is collaboration between your students important for the successful completion of the WebQuest?
*What scaffolds (visual organizers, software tools, prompting questions and suggestions) are provided in your WebQuest?

For Wednesday’s class:
Please be sure that you and your teammate have completed introduce, task, and process pages. If you are ahead of schedule, you can start to work on the rubrics for evaluation page.

Day 28 - WebQuest 2

At the begining of today's class, please turn in your hard copy of responses to the questions for WebQuest project. Also, you will need to send me your BLOG URL to yichunhong@gmail.com with subject as blogURL_yoursession_yourname.

By now, you and your partner should find good ideas for your WebQuest. Now let's put your ideas into a usable format. How do you ensure that students will be engaged in your WebQuest activity? View the WebQuest Taxonomy of Tasks to determine in what category your original WebQuest will fall. Now that you have an idea for your WebQuest, how will you design the entire process section for your learners? What are the major components of a WebQuest and what is the role of each in the learning activity? Get started writing your own WebQuest by using WebQuest Design Process as a guide. You can also use the WebQuest Design Patterns page as a reference.

Now that you have an idea for content flow how do you put it all together into a web-based learning activity?
1. Go to Google Page Creator
2. Create Subpages for your WebQuest, which includes introduction page, task page, process page, evaluation page, conclusion page, and teacher page.
3. Use the WebQuest Design Process and the WebQuest Design Pattern as your references to complete each component for your WebQuest.
4. You can also use the student samples from previous semester to get you ideas on your WebQuest

For next Tuesday's class:
1. Spend some time working on your WebQuest, making sure to check the project description and rubric to ensure you are including all required elements. Have at leaslt your introduction page and task page completed by Monday's class.
2. Learn more about the Instructional Technology Certificate.

Day 28 - WebQuest 1

Completion of Inspiration/Kidspiration Project
Before the begining of today's class, you should've sent me the link to your Inspiration/Kidspiration to yichunhong@gmail.com with the subject as inspiration_yoursession_yourname. If you don't have time to finish it by today, please bring your late pass for additional 48 hours. Otherwise, I am not going to accept your late work.

Our next project - WebQuest is going to ROCK!!
What exactly is a WebQuest? What are the components of the WebQuest? What advantages and disadvantages do you see in teaching with WebQuests? What standards in your content area lend themselves to WebQuests?
Viewing exemplary WebQuests is a good way to get started on your own. Go to the main WebQuest page and click the words "Find WebQuests" on the left navigation bar. Using the Curriculum/Grade Level Matrix (in the middle of the page), spend a few minutes viewing 2 or 3 WebQuests in your content area. You can also see interviews with teachers who have used WebQuests here.
Begin to formulate an idea for a "hook" for your own WebQuest. It may be related to work you have already done in our class or work you are currently completing in other courses. It could even be something completely new in your content area. Before next class (March, 23), you'll need to identify your WebQuest topic. Use this website to help you in the selection process. Generally, a good WebQuest topic should have some inherent complexity, such as controversial issues, multiple perspectives, unknowns, etc. The topic needs to have your students take information in and transform it, using their own judgments and creative problem-solving techniques -- a LoTi level 4 or higher -- the learning should be authentic. Certain topics tend to lend themselves more to the WebQuest format than others.
WebQuest is DIFFERENT!!
In this project, you are not going to work individually. You need to find one partner (two people in a group) to work collaboratively for your project. So, before you leave class today, you will need to find a classmate and initially identify the content that you are going to engage your target learners in learning with your WebQuest.
Also, in order to reflect your thinking and learning journey, you also need to use Blogger to record your progress at least once after each class session.

By Friday, March 23
1. please respond the following questions related to your WebQuest, print out your response, and submit it to me in the beginning of class on Friday, March 23. Also, copy your responses to your blog as part of your journal.
(1) Who is your partner? How you two decided to work together for this project?
(2) Briefly describe your topic
(3) Why did you choose this topic?
(4) How will your WebQuest be tied to Georgia curriculum standards?
(5) How will web resources play an important role in your WebQuest?
(6) How will your WebQuest require students' deep understanding or higher-level thinking instead of mere comprehension?
2. Provide your blog URL link by sending email to yichunhong@gmail.com with subject as blogURL_yoursession_yourname

Day 27 - Web Resource

Few announcements:
1. If you decided to submit your "game box" for earning an extra point, please submit it today.
2. Your Inspiration/Kidspiration project will be due on Wednesday (March, 21) at the begining of the class. You need to publish your Inspiration/Kidspiration link and send it to me at yichunhong@gmail.com with subject as Inspiration_yoursession_yourname.
3. I've finished grading your PowerPoint Game project. You should've received your evaluation for PowerPoint Game project in the email account where you submitted your project. If you don't receive it, please send me an email and I will send the evaluation form to you as soon as I can.

Web Resource

Today we will have one of the librarians, Nadine Cohen, give a lecture to our class about web resources. She will introduce where to locate the teaching / learning material for K-12 students and teachers, and how to evaluate the web resources. Since our next project is WebQuest project and you will be required to find web resources for your target audiences in your project, please seize this opportunity to ask any questions regaring your WebQuest resources. I believe Nadine's expertise will be of great help for your project.

PLEASE BE NOTICED that the class will meet at SLC (Rm 368) at our scheduled time. If you go to our lab in Aderhold and miss the class, you will still be counted as an absence. Hopefully, I will see y'all there.

Preparation for WebQuest project:
Go to THIS website and read the following topics: 1) What is a WebQuest? 2) What are the essential parts of a WebQuest? 3) What are some critical perspectives? Make sure you read the assigned articles before you come to class.

Infor for Web Resource Session (March 19)

Speaker: Nadine Cohen (a wonderful librarian)
When: March 19 (10:10 & 11:15)
Where: SLC (Room 368)

Don't miss it! You will learn a lot from this session, which will be particularly helpful for your next project, WebQuest.

Day 26 - Inspiration/Kidspiration 2

Inspiration/Kidspiration
Today we are going to walk you through the rubrics and details for this project. After the introduction of Inspiration/Kidspiration after Wednesday's class, I expect that you should have an idea on content/curriculum standards to be addressed in this project. We learned to use Inspiration from last session. For those who are going to use Kidspiration (Grade K through Grade 5), please be noted that the interface of Kidspiration is quite similar to that of Inspiration. You should feel comfortable with using Kispiration as you do with Inspiration. In today’s class, you will mainly work on your project. I will assist you with any of your technical problems.
If you can't finish the project at our lab, you can also go to Inspiration website to download 30 day free trial version.

For the Monday (March 19) after Spring Break:
1. We are going to have a “Web Resources” session. In this session, you are going to learn how to evaluate web resources and where to find K-12 resources from web. Nadine Cohen, a UGA librarian is going to give us a lecture. This session will be particularly helpful for your next project, WebQuest. Please take this learning experience seriously. Since Nadine and I haven’t decided where to meet for this session, I will announce it on our Blog before March 19. Please pay particularly attention to the announcement of the location on the Blog. If you go to the wrong location and miss the class, you will be counted toward absence.
2. The Inspiration/Kidspiration project will be due at the beginning of March 21. If you can’t finish it before Spring Break, make sure you spare small portion of your time during Spring Break to complete it.
3. Have a GREAT and SAFE Spring Break!!

Day 25 - Inspiration/Kidspiration 1

Completion of your PowerPoint Game project
By now, you should have already submitted your PowerPoint Game Project to yichunhong@gmail.com with subject as pptgame_yourname. If you don’t submit your project on time, please submit your late pass for additional 48 hours working time.

Concept Mapping Tool - Inspiration / Kidspiration
Your understanding of learning theory and technology integration has come together. In the beginning of the semester, we learned technology tools can be used in conjunction with good teaching strategies to address various learning styles and students’ needs. Today we will be looking at visual learning software - Inspiration and Kidspiration. Both tools allow PreK-12 students to see a concept and its connecting themes and ideas. You'll create an activity for your subject area/grade level. You'll need to find outmore information about Kidspiration and Inspiration software and read more about the Kidspiration and Inspiration assignment beforegetting started on your project.If you want to get a concrete picture of how your Inspiration/Kidspiration project look like, you can view sample projects here.
In order to help you quickly learn the basic features of Inspiration, working with a partner and creating a diagram in Inspiration similar to the one shown in today's class. Learn to explore a new software by yourself is also a very important skill that you need in order to survive in this high-tech era.

For Friday’s Class:
Think about a topic or curriculum standards that you want to address for your Inspiration/Kidspiration project. We will begin to work on that. For your Inspiration/Kidspiration project, it will be due on Wednesday, March 21.

Day 24 - PowerPoint Game 8

Today we will have some time working independently on your projects. Make sure you review the project description so that you are certain that you meet all the requirements. For this project, the hard-copy of evaluation form will not be given out. All the information is up online in our class website.

In your Googlepage for PowerPoint Game project, you will need to include 1)description of your game, 2) screen shot of the game, 3) clear instructions on how game might be used to teach specific standards. Always remember to go to sample projects to get an idea on how to write reflection for your PowerPoint game project.

The project is due at the begining of class on Wednesday, March 7. If you are submitting a game box for additional points (1 extra point to your final grade for this class), this can be turned in on March 19 at the beginning of class.

For Wednesday:
1. Complete and submit your PowerPoint game project to yichunhong@gmail.com with subject as pptgame_your name. Please do follow the instruction to submit your project with correct subject title.

Day 23 - PowerPoint Game 7

10:10 class We will meet as usual at our official time and class lab.
11:15 class Today is your optional working day. As I explained on Monday's class, I expect that you will be working on the project at your own pace and your choice of locations. For those who need helps from me, please meet me at our official time. I am not able to give you detailed instructions via email.

Today we will continue working on your PowerPoint Game project. For those who chose to draw your gameboard by hand, don't forget that we have handout given out on Monday's class. You can follow the instructions for scanning game baord. I will be assisting you when there's any technical problems. By today, you should finish your cover slide, story slide, educational objectives, copyright notice, credits slide, game preparations, game directions, game pieces (if applicable), question headquarters. If you have problems creating question headquarter, you can go to the tutorials for creating question headquarter in Day 19 blog. Hopefully, you all have good progress on your game.

For Next Monday:
1. Please complete at least 90% of your PowerPoint Game. We will have peer review on Monday.
2. Again, the due day for PowerPoint Game project is March 7 at the begining of the class.