EDM 310 assignments for Monday June 8th

Class,

I wanted to say thank you for such a good class on Wednesday. We had a great discussion and I look forward to seeing all of your links to interesting articles pertaining to technology or issues that are interesting for this course. I have graded all of the material from this week and it is posted in eCollege. Take a look at it and let me know if you have any questions.

For Monday June 8th:

1. We will discuss the blog posts due (see below) Monday.
2. We will talk about RSS feeds and Google Reader.
3. We will work on our Google presentations.
4. We will take a short survey on Plagiarism.

If you have any questions before then please let me know. I look forward to talking to you about the blog assignments on Monday. Have a great weekend!

BLOG ASSIGNMENTS

1. Search the web for at least two examples in the United States of schools or teachers using blogs in K-12 classrooms. Review at least two sites that you find and write a paragraph on each that gives the other students a sense of how blogs are being used in the examples that you find. For example, if you find a school in Minnesota that is using blogs, summarize their use in five or six sentences. Do the same for another example. Include in your post links that work to the sites that you find. ATQS (3)(c) 1.(iii); (3)(c) 4.(i); (3)(c) 4.(ii)

2. Search the web for at least two INTERNATIONAL schools or teachers using blogs in K-12 classrooms. Write a summary for each site in the same manner that you used for U.S. blogs. Include in your post links that work to the sites that you find.