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BP11_2010024_Comments for John (Doink)

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An Animation by RickyRico, made at DoInk.com

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BP9_2010023_EtherpadWeb2.0

Etherpad is a real time collaborative document that allows people to communicate, contribute and edit information as it is being typed. This is an easy to use and efficient program that can easily be brought into the classroom. Etherpad can be used for editing in English classes or any class that requires written assignments. Imagine the students working more with one another to edit and create work. Take the focus off of the teacher and allow students to drive feedback and collaboration. You can easily turn an individual assignment into a collaborate assignment, making the class more engaging for the students.

After seeing Ether pad being used as an example in one of our Wimba sessions I decided to use Etherpad in a project a colleague and I have developed. I have been working on an interdisciplinary project in which students must create and program a robot, through nonverbal communication. We were running into problems with the blog program our school uses. Basically, we were using the blog as a chat and found it just wasn’t working the way we needed it to. We also had a hard time grading student participation through these blogs. We were not using the blog in the correct manner and decided to use it for self-reflection instead, as it is intended.

We decided to use Etherpad as a means of student communication. This allows us to see how well student communicate through written language and who participates and who does not. I went in and created ten documents for my class and saved the link to each document on our project Ning. This allows students from each group to quickly open their own document at the beginning of each period to use to communicate during the period. Since we are requiring them to communicate through nonverbal means, this real time application is perfect for students to give each other immediate feedback.

BP7_2010022_CommentsforJohn

http://jhspiritofmedia.blogspot.com/2010/02/bp32010021web20tools.html

BP6_2010021_Commentsfor Julie

Please follow the comments I have posted for Julie Jurue's VoiceThread thought the link below:

http://thelearningcurveunleashed.blogspot.com/2010/02/bp42010021web20tools.html?showComment=1265844949142_AIe9_BGb-oKWAUb-y3D3E_g0cC3S7L1ORvQuUVg-FZax8o-vUoYkOraWk-ePIWrzgf9SFNfrfPcoRFZyHlMKw5DlZ7y__WKe5AWJOP4UI4kgecCdVPvYz1yxHjOuux7PGzDTVa7H8RRI08GA7CVOJuoBwSBqK_5nPypAyZonNerKxXUs3czM2RWw7LxMl-ZBTMONwnui5w6jf_p6IUT5MmteEq1TZnX-P26jhFvsf1mwKDbXV7LGsb1NE08Jc2eZ7zCSHCT8CcgS#c101877899960103654