Morning
Mining the Internet for Resources
8:00-9:00 Introduction; Overview of course; Logistics and requirements
9:00- 10:00 E-mail and Wordle Activity
Alternative site: http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm
Browser Basics and Bookmarking
Activity:Set-up Diigo Accounts and add ten sites
E-mail Use in the Classroom
10:15-12:00 Hypertext Book Activity
SimplyBox http://www.simplybox.com
Google Earth http://earth.google.com/
Google Lit Trips http://www.googlelittrips.org/
1:00-2:15
Overview of Internet
Slideshow
The History of Telecommunications-Video Nerds 2.0.1
2:15-3:15
Blogging 101
Activity: Set-up your personal blog
Blogger http://www.blogger.com
WordPress http://www.wordpress.com
Edublogs http://www.edublogs.org
MicroBlogging-Twitter
3:30-5:00
Research
Essential Questions/The Big Six
Searching Effectively
Google Strategies http://www.google.com/educators/p_websearch.html
Evaluating Web sites
Alan November http://novemberlearning.com/resources/
Activity:Choose one site to evaluate. Use a critical evaluation survey to guide you through the process.
Sunday
Morning
Review Syllabus Assignments
Review Syllabus Assignments
8:00-9:00 am
Google!!!! More than just a search engine http://www.google.com
Activity:Create iGoogle Pages and set-up Google accounts
9:00-11:00 am WebQuests
http://webquest.org/index.php
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquestwebquest.html
Activity: Web 2.0 Tools WebQuest http://www.emints.org/xmodres/addresources/japanwebquest/introduction.html
Lab Time-Take some time to explore other WebQuests and Web 2.0 tools.
1:00-2:30 Flickr and Image Editing on the Web
2:30-3:30 Video
Activity: Incorporating Video into a Blog
VideoConferencing and Chat
Skype http://www.skype.com
3:30-5:00 Lab time- WebQuests and Web Application Presentations
Who are you working with?
What are you interested in?
