Cover It Live Blog - 9/21/2010

Information Sharing in the 21st Century

Now that you have researched a specific topic, and shared that information the traditional way through a MLA report and 21st century Web 2.0 ways through a podcast and a wiki, answer the following questions:

1. Which way do you think that people would like to learn about a topic? Report or Podcast or Wiki?

2. Why did you choose the answer that you did? Give specific reason(s).

3. a. What have you learned that sticks out the most when creating an effective podcast?

4. a. What have you learned that sticks out the most when creating an effective wiki?

5. What is one piece of advice you would give future students before they set out to create a podcast or wiki?

Creating a Wiki Page

Now that you are finished creating a wiki page and visiting your classmates' wiki pages, share:
1. What you have learned?
2. What you like about a wiki to share knowledge?
3. What you think is a challenge about sharing knowledge with a wiki?
4. Will you use a wiki in the future to share knowledge with teachers and classmates?

Vote for Your Favorite Wiki in Your Class! - Period Seven

Build television sms voting polls at Poll Everywhere

Vote for Your Favorite Wiki in Your Class! - Period One

Replace your audience response systems with Poll Everywhere

MovieMaker Reflection

Now that you have completed your movie for your podcast, presenting your MLA topic in a digital way to an interested audience, answer the following questions in a blog reply.

Remember to type your first name and last initial before you begin your reply.

1. What did you enjoy the most about creating your podcast?
2. What did you like the least when creating your podcast?
3. What was the biggest challenge in creating your podcast?
4. What have you learned in creating your podcast that you did not know before this assignment?

Welcome to your Course Blog!

Learning about new topics takes on a whole new look in the 21st century. What we used to learn in libraries, books, and encyclopedias, we can now also learn from e-books, websites, blogs, wikis, and pod casts. The last four are new emerging technologies that are taking school and college classrooms by storm.

• What new and emerging technologies are you familiar with?
  
• When you want information, where do you go to look for it?
  
• What do you think you can learn from other people that you may not be able to learn from more traditional resources?
• Why do you think learning from others is important in the 21st century?
  

Share your thoughts with the class on ways to discover and learn new information in the year 2009.

Make sure you read over the blog etiquette handout before commenting on this blog. Click on document link to file on Moodle.

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