The post included below is from a participant in the teacher version of this course. You will review the post but not contribute to this page. After reading the information about the idea for use of the Web 2.0 tool in the classroom, be sure to visit the examples created by the teachers as part of the assignment.
Following are the instructions provided for the participants who contributed to the content in the table...
Share the content and pedagogy you selected to be supported by the Web 2.0 technology. Tell us why this technology will support WHAT and HOW students are learning this topic. If you are setting up some type of web technology, you can share the URL of what you created, or if you will be asking students to create a product, create a sample and attach it to this post. Read the posts of at least 2 other learners and comment. Collect their great ideas!
Example - from past participant Michael Hancock, Brookhaven High School, Columbus City Schools
One of the goals in biology is:
Students can "summarize the experiments that led to the discovery of DNA". This also correlates to the Ohio Standards for Science - Life Science 26 which states: "Use historical examples to explain how new ideas are limited by the context in which they are conceived. These ideas are often rejected by the scientific establishment; sometimes spring from unexpected findings; and usually grow slowly through contributions from many different investigators (e.g., biological evolution, germ theory, biotechnology and discovering germs)."
Time Toast (www.timetoast.com) is a web 2.0 tool that allows you to create timelines of anything you want then share them with whoever you want. It is also possible for people to leave comments on your timeline.
Since the goal is for students to know the experiments that led up to the discovery of the DNA molecule as well as how each scientist built upon the work of the previous ones, I decided to use Time Toast as a way for students to create an involved timeline of the entire process. The nice thing about Time Toast is that it allows you to do more than just make a timeline with titles and dates. In fact, it allows you to add pictures and text about each entry on the timeline.
So, students will have to create a timeline of at least 8 major scientists involved in the discovery of the DNA molecules. For each scientist on their timeline they will need to include information about how the scientist contributed to the discovery - their experiments, conclusions, and other interesting facts. Then, students will submit their timelines online (probably on my pbworks site). Then, students will have to examine and leave feedback on at least 2 other timelines. Finally, students will take the feedback and tweak their timelines before final submission.
Following are the instructions provided for the participants who contributed to the content in the table...
Share the content and pedagogy you selected to be supported by the Web 2.0 technology. Tell us why this technology will support WHAT and HOW students are learning this topic. If you are setting up some type of web technology, you can share the URL of what you created, or if you will be asking students to create a product, create a sample and attach it to this post. Read the posts of at least 2 other learners and comment. Collect their great ideas!
Example - from past participant Michael Hancock, Brookhaven High School, Columbus City Schools
One of the goals in biology is:
Students can "summarize the experiments that led to the discovery of DNA". This also correlates to the Ohio Standards for Science - Life Science 26 which states: "Use historical examples to explain how new ideas are limited by the context in which they are conceived. These ideas are often rejected by the scientific establishment; sometimes spring from unexpected findings; and usually grow slowly through contributions from many different investigators (e.g., biological evolution, germ theory, biotechnology and discovering germs)."
Time Toast (www.timetoast.com) is a web 2.0 tool that allows you to create timelines of anything you want then share them with whoever you want. It is also possible for people to leave comments on your timeline.
Since the goal is for students to know the experiments that led up to the discovery of the DNA molecule as well as how each scientist built upon the work of the previous ones, I decided to use Time Toast as a way for students to create an involved timeline of the entire process. The nice thing about Time Toast is that it allows you to do more than just make a timeline with titles and dates. In fact, it allows you to add pictures and text about each entry on the timeline.
So, students will have to create a timeline of at least 8 major scientists involved in the discovery of the DNA molecules. For each scientist on their timeline they will need to include information about how the scientist contributed to the discovery - their experiments, conclusions, and other interesting facts. Then, students will submit their timelines online (probably on my pbworks site). Then, students will have to examine and leave feedback on at least 2 other timelines. Finally, students will take the feedback and tweak their timelines before final submission.
I have created a sample timeline - the student timelines should be even better than mine. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/63181