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Day 13, 2/25/10

On day thirteen of class we finished collaborative story writing with 5th graders and used personal bookmarks on Blackboard to create bookmarks of the websites we use alot and think are important. I just bookmarked Web Mail, bookmarking it makes it alot simpler to get too. The standards that we had to use this week were from 21st Century Framework and how bookmarks prompt Information Literacy Skills. I think it does this by letting you access an abundance of information, being more organized, and allowing you to get to the websites faster. I use my google bookmarks and favorites every time I get on the Internet, I would be lost without them. Bookmarks make everything alot easier to get to and you don't have to remember a bunch of websites URLs.

Day 12, 2/25/10

On day twelve of class we created a Hypermedia Quiz on PowerPoint. We came up with our own question, mine was "Which of these animals is extinct?" (the PowerPoint is posted below in previous post) This is different from your average PowerPoint presentation because it is interactive. The students have different answer they can chose, you click on the two answers in the quiz, and they will each take you to a different page (either Sorry try again or Congratulations). We also had to add visual and sound effects to my quiz. The standards that we had to use this week were from 21st Century Framework. The standard that I think that fits this activity is Life & Career Skills standard, under Productivity & Accountability, Produce Results. It says that students will have to follow directions to produce high quality results. I'm not sure how I would use this in my future classroom, but it defiantly is a fun interactive way to quiz students.