Research Projects in the

K-12 Classroom

Using Web 2.0 tools for engagement, scaffolding, and multi-media

presentations

WITH an added bonus information about online professional development

Alice Mercer Spring 2008 Licensed under Creative Commons

Materials from this presentation will be posted at: http://mercertraining.edublogs.org/

Today’s Presentation

This will be video streamed on UStream (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/edtechtalk)

This is part of Ed Tech Talk (http://edtechtalk.com/)

All of today’s presentation links and materials will be at my training blog (http://mercertraining.edublogs.org)

Sources for online training(share some of your own) Ed Tech Talk (http://edtechtalk.com/) Classroom 2.0 (http://classroom20.com) K12Online (http://k12onlineconference.org/)

You can find me at: http://itselementary.edublogs (my show) http://mercertraining.edublogs.org

(blog for trainings)

Why do it?

On your time and pace Friendly folks to help Community to support you You can do PD in your pjs

Research projects and the multitude of ways they can go wrong… Teaching plagiarism with cut ‘n

paste Just the facts m’am Just do it:

free-range projects = feral students One side says vote yes, the other

says vote no, I’m just confused

Creative Commons license http://flickr.com/photos/auntiep/2055051/

Getting more (quality)…

…by demanding less (quantity)

Creative Commons licensehttp://flickr.com/photos/sukkulaati/423983587/

You need a plan…

The elements…

Resources that are accessible to students

Explicit instruction in how to use resources

Student generated research questionsThe “how” and “whys”

Feedback, feedback, feedback Structure, structure, structure

Structuring for success

Resources

Pre-vetted sites Teaching evaluation

skills How to glean a main idea

Bookmark http://flickr.com/photos/derbeth/300105723/

Otherwise, this is all they see…

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Using Diigo for research What you can do:

Highlight text Leave sticky notes

How it can be used What’s the main

idea Give them

feedback

Highlighting Postmodernism http://flickr.com/photos/stephmcg/1265507662/

How Does Diigo Work?

Diigolet (thin bookmarklet) Diigo Toolbar for browsers The tools

Highlighter Clip-it In situ Sticky notes Page notes

http://flickr.com/photos/63031528@N00/852247291

A picture is worth 1,000 words

Sources of photos

Flickr (Creative Commons) Library of Congress (Public Domain) Wikipedia (Both)

Do you have language learners? Oral language is on their test Story boards + Scripts = structure

= safety net Don’t forget the vocabulary

Scripts and storyboards: Don’t do a project without one. TITLE

SCRIPT

What’s next?

How Movie Maker, Photo Story, iMovie VoiceThread, Slideshare, BubbleShare

Where Teacher Tube Blogs Wikis Class Web page