Mini-Me: Creating A Digital Presence Online

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Mini-Me: Creating A Digital Presence Online

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View the Slideshare presentation above at least three times.  Go to each avatar tool and learn to create your avatar.  Create an evaluating system and evaluate each tool.  Rank your tools and post your top 10 avatar tools on your blog.

Challenge:  Learn how to create a Slideshare presentation and make one about creating avatars.  Post your Slideshare presentation to your blog.

01001 - Spanish Lesson: Basic Conversation (Part 1)

Use technology to learn a foreign language. Here is a series of free lessons to learn beginning Spanish that I found useful. Try out the first lesson and post to your blog: 1.) what did you learn about Spanish and 2.) what did you like or not like about the technology you used.

Challenge: Complete all the lessons in the series and post what you learned about Spanish after each lesson. When you complete the course explain why learning Spanish could be useful in the future. Share this website with your parents and ask them to try it. Summarize their evaluation of the website on your blog.

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Tech Toad Intro for Teachers

Analyze the video from several perspectives. First, listen to the video as though you were a teacher and post what the main message is for teachers. Next, listen to the video as a film maker, what worked well? What needs improvement? Post your analysis and suggestions to your blog. Third, show the video to your parents at least three times and ask them to take notes or write down questions. Try to answer any of their questions and post your questions and answers to your blog.

Challenge: Watch the video along with a teacher and ask them to take notes or write down questions. Try to answer any of their questions and post your questions and answers to your blog. Survey all your teachers and ask them to rank which tool (videogames, movies, or virtual worlds) would they like to try first, second, and third. Post your answers to your blog.

Adobe Museum of Digital Media

Take the tour of the museum and post your analysis of the architectural design of the museum. Experience the first exhibit in an all digital museum. Post what you liked and did not like about the digital museum and compare it to another museum you have visited in the real world.

Challenge: Create your own virtual tour of the museum and post the machinima to your blog. Share this site and your blog with a teacher you have not worked with yet and find out how he or she might use this website for a lesson in the future. Post the teacher's ideas to your blog.

Cell Phones As School Tools

WAIT DO NOT WATCH VIDEO YET

Compare the positives and negatives of using cell phones in school (before you watch the video) and post them to your blog. Watch the video and create a new comparison and post that one to your blog along with an analysis of your final thoughts about the use of cell phones at school.

Challenge: Find a teacher who is willing to turn this project into a class assignment. Have the students post their thoughts as comments to your blog. Don't forget to get the teacher's thoughts on the topic. Discuss as a class what the rules (and consequences of breaking the rules) of cell phone use at school should be and post the results to your blog.

Alec Loorz on CNN

Now that you have met Alec Loorz on his website, listen to his message on Youtube. Go to Al Gore's website and explore it. Analyze the data on the website, rent the movie An Inconvenient Truth, and analyze the data presented in the movie. Which data makes the most sense to you? Post your thoughts about global warming and the data to your blog.

Challenge: Choose a location that will soon be underwater, if we do not tackle fiercely the problem of global warming, and create a movie show all that could be lost if that location should indeed become submerged.

Blue Man Group video featured on "Earth To America!"

Watch the video several times and share it with five people, create a movie of their response to the video and ask them if they currently do anything to stop global warming.

Challenge: Research Global Warming and find specific things the average citizen can do now to help reduce their carbon footprint. Find out about a local Ventura student who took action. Go back to the five people you interview and show them the best three websites you found about taking action against global warming.