Tuesday's Schedule and Sites to Visit

You all did GREAT yesterday! We saved 11 sites to the Delicious list for teachers and students to use!! Do you think we can reach 100 sites by Friday? For Tuesday our goal is between 10-15 sites. (Then we will need to start averaging 20 a day to reach 100 by Friday.)

Today's goal will be to review/play with two sites and save them both to the Delicious site. The first sites you visit today will be centered around sites that teachers and/or students can use to make life easier or to help create presentations. With a parnter you will visit one of the sites I have listed below. The 2nd site you visit can be an educational game/fun site from this blog (make sure someone else has not already saved it to the Delicious site). You can continue to do this with a partner or work alone.

Things to Remember (TTR) - Use RIGHT CLICK to open Delicious in a NEW TAB. Use RIGHT CLICK to open any website you are reviewing in a NEW TAB. Keep Blog and Delicious site open so you can keep going back. You can hit REFRESH every now and again to see new posts in either sites.

Your schedule:
1. Read the blog - you are doing that right now! (read the post just under this one to see your graph)
2. Answer the poll (survey) below, if it works or do it at the END of class.
3. Partner up (Mrs. Poulin has sat you next to a partner) and visit the site assigned to your group - the links are posted on the SummerScapesTechCamp Wiki. (right click the link to open).
4. Play around and learn about the site, then add it to the Delicious site.
5. Visit another site from the link list on this blog on your own or with a partner. Add it to the Delicious site.
6. Reflect on what you did today by posting a comment to this blog post.

Art Zone Review

I visited Art Zone today. At Art Zone you can make a bunch of art stuff like spray painting, and making still lifes, and playing with landscaping and virtual art like painting and coloring. I liked the site. I liked it because it was fun to play around with virtual art and make stuff. Other students should visit this website, like elementary, middle and high school students. I made this picture with the Jungle link on Art Zone. -KS

Discover Discovery Games!

Visit this link for Discovery Games for the entire session and work your way through it. When you open a link use "open in new window" so you do not lose the original site. Visit all the different areas you are intersted in.

At around 4:40 stop playing and write up your opinion of this web site. Follow the procedure from the previous post. (#a-e).

3rd Fall Session - Movie Making Time

Good Afternoon! Today we must work on the movie. Check out the schedule posted on the Wiki page created just for that. The others not working on the Movie may visit any of the links on this blog. I encourage you to stay with a game or program long enough to learn something from it. Today's agenda:
1. Read the Blog (you are doing that right now)
2. Visit the Wiki to see our Movie Schedule
3. Check out any link on this Blog and "play" around long enough to learn something from the program.
4. at 4:40 today OPEN a NEW WORD DOC and do the following:
a. Type the NAME/TITLE of the link/web site you visitied today and Copy/past the LINK you visited at the top of the page
b. Describe what a person can do at this link; what might you learn or how is it fun? (2 sentences)
c. Answer this question: Did you like the site - WHY or WHY NOT (1-2 sentences)
d. Should other students visit or use this link. Who is the link best for elementary, middle and/or high school students? (1 sentence)
e. SAVE this document as "LINK WRITE UP" to your personal folder on network
5. SHUT DOWN computers at 4:55

Another Cool ART ZONE Pic

Another student created another ART ZONE picture here it is.

Very cool!!

Discover Discovery Games!

Visit this Discovery Games for the entire session and work your way through it. When you open a link use "open in new window" so you do not lose the original site. Visit all the different areas you are intersted in.


At around 4:40 stop playing and write up your opinion of this web site. Follow the procedure from the previous post. (#a-e).

Fun with VIRTUAL ART!

During our first Monday Session of our continued TECHCAMP Students played on Art Zone sponored by National Gallery of Art (NGA). Here are 3 examples of what they created in minutes. We also viewed our video as it stands right now. We have some work to do on the video, although it appears they enjoy visiting the new sites listed on this blog rather than working in the movie!

Research and Planning for the Movie Project

Today, Tuesday, the students worked in pairs to research specific topic areas for the "What is Rivendell" informational movie. Most of the questions or areas were answered by visiting various websites on the Internet. The RISD website was their main source of information; most groups read parts of the website they had never visited previously. Others needed to venture out to other sources usually through links from the RISD site. The graphic organizer, created with Inspiration, shows the different topic areas they were working on today. The few that we could not find will be asked in live interviews with staff tomorrow.