Summer+Institute+2013

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 * Activity**: important bits

First... Alan November

Titanpad.com is a way to get several people to type on the same document. Class dojo. Is another way to keep students on task and alert. A questioning toolkits give a nice background on how to get students to categorize and create questions. Jamie Mackenzie Story about internet makes you dumber and dumber because people just look up things. Consider making questions that are not googleable as work or assign researchers. Force students to do their own answers. Build your own search engine using more on google then even more then custom search engines. Add site:gov to the end of every search to make it more relevant. Us e of Site: is an operator to limit relevancy to a limited extension of a url. If you use filetype: it limits it to a specific file types. Like ppt or doc or docx. Link command gives you all the web sites that link to national geographic. Swf is ppt Ppt. powerpoint Doc is word documents etc Design for first week for learning about prior knowledge. Use of diigo to build virtual library and to take notes of info. Idea for first week is teach researching skills. Take Blogs into edmodo, do noodle tools do diigo Consider having twitter account to get students to start following specific people can make lists so that students have long term follow of students. Jing screen casting software Sock puppets is a great app to get students to create content.

Second... Sara Wilke on digging deeper section of day two I saw several ideas for use in future. sp...Inquiry workshop, Multimodal vocabulary, multimodal vocabulary frayer model, learning and the data Read papers on flipping our perceptions of how learning works. Students learn best when they start with the creativity part they did better than if they read or watched first. Analyzed work from activites as to the level in both Blooms and in SAMR.