Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Response to National Educational Technology Standards 2a-d

Response to National Educational Technology Standards 2a-d
I thought of how fun it would be for students design a park.  They could examine parks around the world virtually to see what they would be interested in building. They could choose where in the world to build it communicating with each other and with someone from that part of the world who could give them insight into the culture they would be dealing with:  what people they would need to build it, what it would cost, what transportation would be needed, the times of working, what materials would be available and cost, what's the weather like in that area and what seasons if any, time constraints,materials /products, food costs, permits required, and so forth.  They would be blogging, maybe using Skype, sharing websites and videos.  They would be collecting and organizing information individually to share. 
 They could use the Google calendar to chart the time frame for completion of each step so they could see at a glance what needs to be done and who would be doing it.
They would do a presentation to the class of there findings using the media they used and how they used it.
I haven't used the graphic organizer tool Webspiration. But this looks like something the students could map out to help them and others see visually how they would go about building their park.
It sounds like Delicious would be good to use since it keeps the bookmarks so no matter what computer the students were on they could retain those bookmarks.

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