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WHS Student Reflective Post

In this post, you will reflect upon the experience of the Flat Classroom Project. You must include the following items at the top of the post. Group Assignment: Hyperlink to Group Wiki: Hyperlink to Outsourced Video Clip: Embed Outsourced Video Clip: Video Hyperlink: Embed the Final Video Artifact: In your reflection, which may be a video, audio, or typed text, you must cover the following: 1) Overview of your topic - In at least 150 words and 4 hyperlinks, explain your topic. Include 1-2 i… Continue

Added by Vicki Davis on November 30, 2009 at 1:11pm — No Comments

Message to All Flat Classroom Students

Just posted this through the wiki messaging system (look at the mail icon in the top right corner and you'll see mail from me.) But in case you haven't seen it - here is the main part of my message.

What should I be doing?

Right now you should be editing the overview of your topic - add hyperlinks and EDIT WHAT IS THERE -- each student doesn't write a piece and add it - it is time to get COLLABORATIVE and edit each other's work. Help each other - talk about things on the discussion ta… Continue

Added by Vicki Davis on October 23, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Pre Project Reflective Blog Post

My students are to do the following: 1) Write a reflective blog post about the Thomas Friedman video we viewed. 2) Embed the video from MIT (you will have to search for it.) 3) What are the most important points he made in the video. 4) What is the most important thing that you learned in the video? Why? 5) What do you hope to learn in this year's Flat Classroom Project. Tag this: whs Continue

Added by Vicki Davis on September 28, 2009 at 2:13pm — No Comments

WHS Student Summit

The Westwood Student Summit will be held tomorrow, 12/10/2008 from 9:15 - 9:50 EST. To join, click this link: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2007066&password=M.9301D01FB411E98248792B3A33F345 You may need privaleges to install javascript and the first 100 people are welcome! Continue

Added by Vicki Davis on December 9, 2008 at 2:47pm — No Comments

The Correct Way to Hyperlink: Contextual Links

One of the main issues I see on the wiki currently is the way we are hyperlinking. Writing on the internet should be concise and meaningful, and hyperlinks should be CONTEXTUAL. Here are some examples Wrong way Example #1

There was a news article that more wireless companies are providing chips to connect to the Internet at higher speeds. You can read the article here - http://www.yourcommunicationnews.com/news… Continue

Added by Vicki Davis on October 17, 2008 at 6:55pm — No Comments

Flat Classroom 2008 Schools Announced

We're so excited to share this announcement - we had so many schools apply and have done our best to get a good fit for the project AND find ways for every teacher who applied to be involved in some way. Unfortunately, we've had a few challenges reaching everyone who applied as some firewalls won't let us through. If you are one of those teachers who applied and you have not heard from us -- PLEASE check your spam folder -- we've been trying to reach you. Here is our official announcement. ****… Continue

Added by Vicki Davis on September 15, 2008 at 3:00pm — No Comments

When do I wiki and when do I ning?

We've had a great time of getting acquainted over the last few weeks and we are getting ready to charge ahead. I've noticed that there are some asking when do we ning and when do we wiki.

We created the ning to see if we could help the process of getting connected. Last year, many of our spam filters and firewalls were "eating" our e-mails and it was frustrating to connect, so the teachers created this space to help you connect and communicate.

However, remember that it will b… Continue

Added by Vicki Davis on October 20, 2007 at 2:02am — No Comments