Let's review from Week One:

By now you should have registered and created your very own PBWorks site and hopefully, you've played around a bit. Especially, you should be able to hit the "Edit" tab and change text, then the "Save" button and save your changes. Of course, you can always continue to make changes to your pages.

You should also have created at least one page and named it to fit the content you are going to put on it.

Two assignments (PICK and SOSR I) should either have been copied and pasted onto a page your created on your site, uploaded as a file, or some combination of the two. Each assignment should be linked from the frontpage so I can come in and view them for review and grading tomorrow (Monday). Don't worry about grades. If I see something that missed the mark, I'll comment on your PBWiki if you gave me writing privileges or send you an email to your MWSU account.

For Week Two:

(note the print button on the lower right of your screen if that is easier for you)

Continue to explore the Web 2.0 technologies linked in the SideBar. I especially want you to be sure you understand the power of:

a.  iGoogle for organizing resources and access from anywhere

b. a delicious.com account to collect bookmarks that are tagged with how you think and accessible from anywhere

c. picnik.com for easy manipulaiton of images

and especailly----

d. bighugelabs.com for web 2.0 technologies you might be able to use as you plan for the fall. Please look at my example and realize that technology is as close to the Holy Grail of teaching and learning that we will probably ever come---it is where the kids are and is HIGHLY motivating to them. (Go where they are, connect, lead them to where you want them to be)

If you haven't already been introduced to Snapfish or Mixbook, think about the unbelievable power of having your students create and present their work through a free online book and a nominally-costing "real" book that you and your class could present to the Principal for the library. Wow! I see positive notes home to the parents and kudos to you from the principal.

We have other things to do, but I want to protect some time this week for you to spend time exploring the Web 2.0 world through my links and more and think about the implications for your teaching. IMHO (In my humble opinion), you have a moral responsibility to rush to the bleeding edge of technology to ensure that not one single student of yours is able to dismiss you as out of touch with reality--even if it is virtual reality.

DUE JUNE 17: Read Chapters 3, 4, and 5 of SOSR and respond to the template below

SOSR Template II   Remember to either copy and paste your completed template to a new page on your PBWorks site and then link from the front or upload and link. Here is the Executive Summary of NCLB for your reference so you can apply the concepts in SOSR to the paradgim (or is it?) laid out in NCLB.

I'll post a Panic Button review in a few days, more complete than the last one.

And, these might be helpful:

A Synopsis of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

An Outline and Study Guide for The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Download and review the Policy Analysis Template (PAT)

     (or work directly from this page)

What I want you to do for this assignment is to think---wait, there's more---about some policy concerning education. This can be as simple as a district policy or school building or classroom policy. It does have to be sufficiently complex to be able to apply the PAT. I want you do to a run through this form with some policy with which you are familiar. If you can't come up with anything, do a Google search to find something appropriate. 

Fill out the middle column. You can think about the action items that you would type into the right column but you don't have to complete the right column for this assignment. Due next Sunday night.

I hope I'm giving you time to think. It seems to me there should be time for thinking in a masters degree, not just doing busy work. So apply yourself and especially work at acquiring the skill of reading difficult text.

 Feel free to use the Collaboration page to, well, collaborate.

I'll continue to post anything hot off the presses inside the top box on the frontpage of this site.