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Interesting repository of educational programs for the Apple II(tags: AppleII EduSoftware)
11.27.07
Core 1:
- Vote-on: Which of the following debate topics will be the student selected debate?
- Solved: New Orleans should be relocated.
- Solved: The internet is a bad influence on children.
- Solved: Video games should be considered a sport.
- Solved: Everyone should know how to swim.
- Solved: The government should aggressively fund alternative forms of energy.
- How do you search for good resources?
- Conduct your fourth and final 30-minute-expert blogging session on our chosen topic.
- Create arguments by stating your assertion, reasoning and evidence in one paragraph on your blog (similar to the examples from the handout yesterday).
- Extensions: Finalize your 30-minute-expert session. Start to look back and decide which topic is right for you.
Core 2:
- Blog-on: Is it better to be recognized for doing something good (changing people’s ideas on race/gender) or to go unrecognized? Why?
- Calling attention to your cause:
- ReacTee
- Blogging and Linking
- Other ideas?
- Work on the computers for two purposes:
- Finish your rough draft of your Academy Authentic for Friday (share with others, not me)
- Work on your Social Action Plan
- Extensions:
- Work on your Academy Authentic
Core 3:
- Share-on: Share what lesson, moral, or idea you learned from reading MOV with at least 2 other people.
- Take a look at “Why should students come to class?” and the collaborative discussion going on with our old friends from Wallingford, CT.
- Work on the computers for two purposes:
- Finish your rough draft of your Academy Authentic for Friday (share with others, not me)
- Comment/Build upon the Wallingford-based debate on virtual classes/schools
- Extensions:
- Work on your Academy Authentic
Core 4:
- Blog-on: What is freedom of expression and why is it important to our ever day lives?
- A 30-minute-expert blogging session on global censorship:
- Mr Mayo’s Delicious Account on Free Press
- Resources
- Facts
- Opinions
- Extensions:
- Finish your 30-minute-expert blogging session and post it to your blog in the correct format.
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links for 2007-11-27
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An amazing resource for logical fallacies.
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An enormous amount of great wordpress themes.
11.26.07
Core 1:
- Write-on: If I told you that there were three elements of any good argument, what would they be called? Create a workable acronym for them as well.
- Use the resources at MiddleSchoolDebate.com to practice making Arguments.
- Are the opinions you have been voicing in your 30-minute-expert sessions arguments?
- Would the facts in your 30-minute-expert sessions fit into this type of structure?
- Extensions:
- Read the discussion (from Wallingford, Conn.) going on at Discourse about Discourse: Should Students Come To Class? From your own 30-minute-expert session, write up your own opinion.
Core 2:
- Write-on: If you were trying to change the world, how would you know if you were successful or not?
- Introduce the Social Action Plan.
- Discuss-On: Who should decide what gets taught in schools?
- Read and Discuss Chapter 8:
- What is the worst type of coercion displayed so far?
- Why does T.J. “turn” on the Logans?
- Extension:
- Finish chapter 8 for Wednesday.
Core 3:
- Write-on: Is “happily ever after” a fictional creation or a representation of reality? Why?
- Who gets a “happily ever after” in Act V of The Merchant of Venice?
- Construct a “Shrek-like” organizer.
- Extensions:
- “Study” for MOV quiz on Friday.
Core 4:
- Reflect-on: How was the “debate” you held while I was gone different from the debate that you designed (with diagram)?
- Share out your diagrams on the document camera.
- Test the most popular form out with “Solved: They mayor should have paid the Piper.”
- What can we do differently/better next time?
- Extensions:
- Write out what kind of debate you believe are worth having.
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links for 2007-11-26
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(tags: WordPress MakeYourBlog/WikiBetter)
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A fairly extensive wiki for educational technology resources in all subject areas.
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Interesting blog post on powerpoint.(tags: Powerpoint LearningTheory)
links for 2007-11-24
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Jobs in the edtech sector
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Job board for edtech
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A plethora of edtech job opportunities.
links for 2007-11-21
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A photoset of interesting photos with provocative statements about the state of the internet and technolgoy.
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Pretty darn great blog for introducing blogging
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Check dcsd paystubs online
11.20.07
Core 1:
Solved: Online schools provide a more authentic learning environment than traditional ones.
- Your 30-Minute-Expert Resources link is here.
- You can also take a look at my blog post about the issue.
My sub plans are here.