INTRODUCTION (to come in the middle)

The role of Language: 

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Natives and Immigrants [link to article]

GoogleEarth

GOALS/OBJECTIVES FOR WORKSHOP

1.  Create your own blog

2.  Post ideas for uses of blogs in classroom.

3.  Create your own wiki

4.  Post ideas for use of wikis in clasroom (on-line homework!)

TAKE-HOME MESSAGES

• World, and especially digital language, is changing fast...are we and our students keeping up?

• Digital natives do their best work online

• High quality on-line tools are great for classroom:  They're... Free; Universally available; Useful outside educational setting; Don't use local server space; Usually need limited tech support

BLOGS

1.  CREATE YOUR BLOG

Keeping the 10-minute promise (hopefully!):

• Follow along step-by-step in class [link to Blogger]

• Warning--legal agreement with Google

• Don't forget your username and password--write them down!

• First blog entry--tell us who you are!!

• Example of written instructions for students to create blog [link]

"IM" me your blog address (URL) to my chat room:

• Log on at Live Harmony using your name instead of "guest" [link]

• Hit the connect button to enter the chat room

• Copy your blog address or URL from the browser address bar

• Paste your blog web address into the chat room using the small window at the bottom where the flashing cursor is

• Now I'll make a link to your blog so everyone in the workshop can see it [link]

Hands-off Break:  Workshop Intro--Digital Natives, Goals, Take-home Message (see above)

The Note [link]

A quick blog assignment: 

• Create a second entry about using blogs in your class.  Can you imagine a learning activity...before, during, after class...where your students would post to a blog?  Take three minutes to describe this activity in your blog.

• Sample of group ideas for using blogs [link]

• Examples of Student Blogs from Anatomy and Physiology [link]

• Instructions for Human Anatomy and Physiology blog assignment [link]

wikis

Wikipedia compared with Encyclopedia Britannica

• are websites that can be modified on-line with no special software
• have no pre-set format (like the diary format of a blog)
• are community-based and can have multiple contributors
• are often used for group-based projects
• can be created and hosted at a "wiki farm" [link to list of wikifarms]
• a wiki farm is an on-line service that provides the (often) free and (often) open-source software to create and manage your wiki as well as server space to host it
• some farms offer WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) on-line editing
• some farms offer easy incorporation of images

seedwiki

use one of the wiki farm services

• seedwiki is a free, non-profit, no-ads service that offers quick set-up, WYSIWYG editing, image posting; multiple past versions of your wiki are saved.

• wikia is a free, advertising-sponsored (google ads on side) service that offers quick set-up, WYSIWYG editing, image-posting and multiple past versions of your wiki are saved.  support and overall site management are perhaps a bit more obvious than with seedwiki

• pbwiki [link to alternate practice page]

• examples of student "adopted microbe" wikis from microbiology  [link]

• Instructions for microbiology adopted microbe wiki projects [link]

provide some feedback on the workshop (for after class!)

• please respond to the "critical incident questionnaire" that you'll find in the link below.   your feedback will not only improve your wiki skills, but help improve future workshops

• paste your answer to the questions on our portal wiki (just hit the edit button and write in your answers) [link]

Contemplate the following questions in a new blog entry:

(forget how to get to your blog--here's the link to the workshop blog list) [link]

• Why should our students publish their work on-line (and can we afford to NOT have them do this?)

• When is it best for students to post and publish on-line?

• How is it best they do this—what features should we look for in the digital technologies and utilities we ask our students to learn and use?

• Reading from Prensky article, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants [link]

• Not everyone agrees with Prensky [link]