Dr.+Sponder

=**Homework**=


 * Last Wiki Assignment Due November 23** (Two weeks to complete)


 * This assignment** will involve the use of webcams with a new webcam interview website called WeToku.com.Go to the website, read the directions. At the same time members of this wiki (except me) will post their webcam status in the Study Group Conference area ASAP. **The assignment:** Depending upon how many of you have webcams, you will pair up for this assignment. **What to do?** You will conduct and record an interview or conversation or dialogue and then embed it on each participant's wiki page. If there is an odd person out, PM me and I will find a partner for you from another Study Group. **The topic for the interview?** Choose one of the following: **a**. One of you will play the role of a famous educator, scholar or historical figure and the other will interview that person about something they believe about education or teaching. **b.** Conduct an interview about how you are using web 2.0 technology in the classroom **c.** Create your own interview topic and record that. If you are the odd person out without a partner you may also find someone who is not in the class but willing to participate in the activity. Maybe look for an invited guest from afar or even one of your former teachers. **How long?** Anywhere between 3-5 minutes would be fine.


 * No webcam** or prospects for getting one? Webcams are relatively inexpensive (starting at $20) and can add a lot to your web 2.0 repertoire. If still no prospects for getting one then you can try another screen recorder tool for this assignment, Screenr.This is a Twitter-oriented tool that operates similarly to Jing, but there are differences. Make 2-3 recordings (5 min each) of something that you will be able to use in the classroom, or for another class you may be taking at UMUC. Post them to your webpage and compare Screenr to Jing. Are both about equal or is one a better tool overall? Add your evaluation to your page as well.


 * Wiki Assignment Due November 10** (two weeks)


 * Use the following sites** to **i**dentify Web 2.0 content that we have never used (in EDTC 640 for those past students and EDTC 650 for everyone) to develop content for your own classroom or for the target class you have chosen--if you are not teaching.
 * Semoz Web Awards (2008),
 * GO To Web 2.0, Numerous 2.0 tools
 * Kreative Garden Numerous 2.0 tools
 * Top 15 Web 2.0 Sites Don't miss the articles on the right hand side of the page


 * What to do?** You will peruse these sites and others like them that you might discover. Locate Web 2.0 tools (2 minimum, 5 maximum) that you can use in your classroom this school year (09-10). Then develop instructional content for each and post them to your Wiki page by November 10**.** You will also post them to the Conference I will create next week for this assignment. That will be available during Week 9. **What to use?** Look for multimedia that will be educative, that will help you teach what you teach and help students learn what they need to learn. **//Voki? Voicethread? Audacity?//** Nope, you must find tools that ** we haven't yet used. ** If you are not sure just post a question about the tool in the Questions conference for Week 8 or Week 9 (next week). **Not teaching?** Pick a grade level and subject area you are comfortable with and flesh that out. What if someone in the class has already used a tool? If you are at an impasse you can use one, not both. **How long should it be?** As long as it takes. This is for your edification--take advantage of the opportunity.


 * Wiki Assignment Due October 3**

Go to either Puzzlmaker.com or Armored Penguin and make a criss-cross or crossword puzzle. What topic? Pick a topic from one of the other courses you have taken in the UMUC graduate program, either Distance Education or Educational Technology. How many questions? Between 10-15. Then, save it with a screenshot and post that into your personal Wiki page by October 3. Then, go to the other Group member's pages and download at least two of their crosswords--all if you like--and see if you can solve those puzzles. When finished, post them to the Conference in next week's full class Conferences. Questions, put them in the weekly Questions Conference.


 * Wiki Assignment Due October by 13** **Wiki Activity for Weeks 4 & 5**


 * The purpose of this activity** is to give you practice in collaborating using Audio tools to edit and combine student's audio input. The activity is as follows:


 * 1. You will go to** one or more of the MadLib websites such as Wacky Web Tales, Crazy Libs, Mad Glibs or even make one of your own. If you've never seen this type of activity visit the sites and look at how the stories are set up. There are funny stories that have blank spaces. Beforehand you get responses from people (adjective, noun etc.).


 * 2. Pick a story.** You will find a story that looks like fun and then the person under your name on the Group Member list will be the person that supplies the answers to your story using Audacity to record them. That person will upload the MP3 to your wiki page. You will download his or her MP3 and separate the sounds individually, record the full MadLib story yourself, then drop in their responses where appropriate. If you haven't done this before and are unclear about the assignment, you'll get it when you see the activity demonstrated at the Wimba Meeting, or through the recording. You, in turn, will provide responses to the person above you on the list hen he or she posts their request for answers on your Wiki Page.


 * 3. After you finish** post the finished podcast to your personal Wikipage and to a post in the Week 5 Conferences in the class Conference area, due October 13th, giving you two weeks to get this done.


 * 4. Touch base** by the weekend with the two Group members you will working with, the one that you will give the list of words to (named below you on the Member list) and one that will give you a list of words to which you will respond (named above you on the member list).