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Writing Assignment

Step 1: After reading information online - Answer the following questions and post your answers to your personal blog

• What is Web 2.02.0 and why should teachers know about it?
• What is a Blog and why should every teacher have one?

Step 2:  Post your answers on your own BLOG under the title of "Blogging in Education

New Class Assignment - Prezi

We have a new class assignment we will be discussing today.  It is called Prezi Presentations.  It is a type of Power Point Presentation, but where PP is linear Prezi is not.  Prezis are stored on line or can be downloaded onto your computer.

We are very excited about this new form of presentation and we believe you will be too when you see the dynamic presentations that you can create.  See you at 3:45 on Sept. 20.



Tech Class Hard at Work

Some of the members of our Tech Class working away.

Front to back:  Sister Levaci, Sister Qalovaki, Sister Raclue

Brother Prasad and Elder Tait deep in conversation

Sister Ram setting up her blog.

Tech Class Homework

Hi Tech Class,

I just checked everyone's blog and there are not any new posts.  I just checked the wiki pages and no one has been doing anything with those.  You still have the rest of this week so hope to see something by the end of the week.  Hope you all had a good holiday. 

Assignment for Wiki Page

We are going to make 6 wiki pages as a class on the 6 words listed below.  Read the articles for information on wikis and above all have fun!

blogosphere

wiki pages

social bookmarking

podcasting

RSS feeds

hyperlink

Post meaningful, relevant information on the topic.

1. Summarize the information found on the Net and set a link to it.
2. Continue to read on the topics and ask yourself -- "What do I not understand about this topic?"

The Website for our class wiki pages is:  http://techclass-ldscollege.wikispaces.com/

Below is a good article to read on contributing to and editing wiki pages:

http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2011/03/wiki-wiki-teaching-art-of-using-wiki.html  

This article talks about correct ettiquette on wiki pages:

http://projecthelp.wikispaces.com/Wiki

Education Blogs

Below is some of the key terminology for our lesson on blogs and wikis.  Also please read the articles on Web 2.0, Wiki, and RSS. 

web 2.0 - a group of technologies which have become deeply associated with the term: blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds etc., which facilitate a more socially connected Web where everyone is able to add to and edit the information space.  Below is a long but very informative article.  (Just read section 2 and section 5 that shortens it up quite a bit.)

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf 

wiki – a web page that can be viewed and modified by anyone with a web browser and internet access.  (caution: this means that anyone can modify the web content.)  See the website below for an article on wikis.

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7004.pdf

RSS (Rich Site Summary) – a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.   Below is a website that explains RSS in one page.

http://www.whatisrss.com/