Mini Project Checklist - My Meerkat Voki March 2, 2008
Posted by Al Upton in miniLegends.Tags: blog, blogging, elearning, fun, learning, mini projects, miniLegends, student directed, student initiated, voki
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55 second checklist for our student initiated mini projects.
Please check our previous post -
Student Directed Learning - Family, Mentors and Buddies
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If my Voki has been removed by your feedreader, you can check it out here.
For more on embedding vokis, check out Sue Water’s post in The Edublogger …
Adding A Voki Speaking Avatar To A Post or Page of Your Blog
Tokbox and Meebo - filtered in SA? March 1, 2008
Posted by Al Upton in miniLegends.Tags: audio, face to face, Meebo, online chat, Tokbox, video
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A test …
Get your own TokBox at www.tokbox.com
Tokbox are teaming up with Meebo http://www.meebo.com/
If these are filtered I will ‘demote’ this post to draft form.
Keep your eyes out for these emerging communication services. More later.
Student Directed Learning - Family, Mentors and Buddies February 24, 2008
Posted by Al Upton in miniLegends.Tags: blog, blogging, elearning, fun, learning, mini projects, miniLegends, student directed, student initiated
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Hi this is a task I would like you to consider.
‘Consider’??? What do I mean? You don’t have to do it if you don’t want to!? 
No. I would like you to consider how this task can best help your learning - make it fun and interesting.
Firstly. I would like you to click the http://alupton.edublogs.org/springboards/ page above and choose some of the questions to answer.
They are above the dotted line ——————–
[NB as a class we negotiated these questions and felt we had covered them well enough and to concentrate our learning on our mini projects and posts.]
Then. I would like you to explore some of the springboards to choose a topic you could do a ‘mini project’ on. Give yourself a challenge. Choose something you don’t know much about but would like to know more. If you always do ‘dinosaurs’ or ‘ponies’ please avoid them here! In the comments of http://alupton.edublogs.org/springboards/ type in what you would like to research and what springboard you used to find it.
Next write a post about your topic on your own blog. You will have a few lessons to do this and use a few posts if you want.
- introduce your topic (consider your title carefully)
- share what you have found so far
- copy and paste any links you have used for information and pictures
(right-mouse-click ‘copy link location) - write what more you might want to find out about your topic
- ask your mentors, buddies and family if they would like to join in, share and help you with your topic.
- add and present the information you find with pride. Do this using your own words - don’t just copy other people’s. Remember if someone helps you or if you find something somewhere else, then you need to say that. Pictures need to come from sites that allow you to use them for free - be very careful of this.
Finally remember to ‘read and respond’ to the comments that you have received on your blog. Use your internet manners and keep ’safe and savvy’.
UPDATE: your learning does not have to be all online/internet/blogging etc … this is just a starting point, a springboard to how you would like to learn about your chosen topic and present it. Please don’t forget to involve your folks. 
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