Week+4+S09

=AI Meeting Agenda= HPT folks - want to conduct research on how to improve our performance in w200 AIs?

Serdar, Dabae, Laurie: Communication Chip, Sinem, Minjing: Data Collection and Analysis Doug, Zihang, Sungwon: Production

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=Week 4 Lecture= = =

=Week 4 Lab=

My class REALLY got into making their iGoogle/RSS pages. In hopes of making it something that they would keep and use, I gave them time to make the home/personal page first before moving onto makign the professional page. That really seemed to endear them to iGoogle or MyYahoo. When we moved to the professional page, we looked at three ways to add feeds: 1) Searching within the reader, 2) Bringing feeds in from otehr sites, and 3) subsribng to each other's delicious accounts. I closed class with having them rearrange by subject area and subscribe to like-teachers' delicious accounts. That way they coudl quickly get all the resources they found in the searching part of the lab without any bulky exchange. They loved it.
 * Doug**

Doing all that took a long time. That plus 15 minutes on searching and 10 minutes on lecture took the whole lab. But doing something thoroughly always seems to pay off. If they can leave class with something of high quality, they seem morel ikely to latch onto it for good than they do with a quick how-to.

Minjing
 * Work on their PDP
 * Explained the grading process of PDP.
 * Based on their content area, get students into groups of 2 or 3 to exchange their PDP and provide each other with feedback. And then revise their PDP according to the feedback they received.
 * E-portfolio
 * Showed them how to make PDP word document into PDF file.
 * Upload the PDF file of PDP onto Evidence page on e-portfolio.
 * Upload their storyboard onto Evidence page.
 * Search for resources
 * Reviewed the lecture content on teachers' responsibilities
 * Reviewed the lecture worksheet questions
 * Link the lecture content with lab activities
 * Showed(an online video) and discussed search strategies
 * Get students in groups of 2 or 3 to find online resources for each of the categories (template/lesson plan/assessment/resources/teachers' example/tutorial/professional organizations)
 * Showed how to bookmark those websites on delicious.com
 * Showed how to use print screen function to get a screen shot of the delicious page. And asked them to upload the page picture to Assignment as the workout for today.
 * In the remaining time of the class, students either worked on their digital story or their e-portfolio.
 * Didn't cover iGoogle page but will catch up with it next lab.

We did a ton in this lab, including:
 * Laurie:**
 * Connection to lecture
 * Digital Story - I checked to see if they had their pictures and narration. Students that had this got points toward their participation grade (5)
 * PDP - We covered goals and action plans in detail. Students are having a lot of trouble with this. They resubmitted. I'm going to give them points for doing it; however, I'm going to provide comments. If they incorporate these comments into their PDP #2 then they will get the remainder.
 * Lab Workout -
 * Discussed how to gather resources
 * Did a scavenger hunt and put links in Delicious
 * Signed up for iGoogle and subscribed to their own Delicious account as well as Dr. L's.
 * Signed up for Blogger and blogged about 3 of their chosen links. Submitted their blogger link to Oncourse. This is what I'll grade for their workout points.