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4C History - Technology Tools
Our theme, 4C History, has four components: create,
communicate, collaborate, and contextualize. We will be employing online
technologies to meet these four goals.
Be sure to visit the
Dorman Data
Digest wiki for helpful technology tools.
Blogs – Dorman’s Daily
Technical Information:
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A blog
is a website for which an individual or a group frequently generates text,
photographs, video or audio files, and/or links, typically (but not always)
on a daily basis. |
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The term
is a shortened form of weblog. |
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Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing
blog is called "blogging". |
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Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts," or
"entries". |
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The
person who posts these entries is called a "blogger". |
How we are using this resource:
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The
Dorman Daily blog is hosted by The Landmark Project Class Blogmeister. The
URL is
http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=31176. |
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Each of
you will have multiple opportunities to be the featured daily scribe, host
your own site, and contribute original content through postings and comments
on the main blog as well as other student sites. |
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Classroom Password ___________________ |
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Sign-In Name ___________________ |
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Individual Password ___________________ |
Podcasts – Dorman’s
Directors
Technical Information:
| iPod + Broadcast = Podcast |
| Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia
files, such as audio programs or music videos, over the Internet, for
playback on mobile devices and personal computers. |
How we are using this resource:
| In each unit, students will be assigned to collaborate
with other students to create original audio content that will be
communicated through the class podcast. |
| The class podcast will take the form of a radio
program with the following segments: |
Vocab
Vibes
Living
History
Innovation
Station
Cultural
Corner
Web Wowzers
| Additionally, two students will be assigned as the
show producers and will be responsible for creating the intro and
outro as well as the transitions between segments. |
| The podcasts will be published and syndicated through
the class GCast site at
http://www.gcast.com/u/Dorman/main. Students and parents can subscribe
to the GCast site through iTunes, Juice, or other aggregator. |
Wiki – Dorman Data
Digest
Technical Information
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A wiki is a type of website that allows users
easily to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change most available content. |
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A single page in a wiki is referred to as a
"wiki page", while the entire body of pages, which are usually highly
interconnected via hyperlinks, is "the wiki"; in effect, a wiki is actually
a very simple, easy-to-use user-maintained database for searching and
creating information. |
How we are using this resource:
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The Dorman Data Digest wiki is located at
http://dorman-data-digest.wikispaces.com/. |
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Individual wiki pages for each unit have been created
as well as a general technology tools page. |
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Any registered member, which you will all be by the end
of the week, can post comments as well as upload and download documents.
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Important items from each unit will be posted as
learning tools. |
| As our community collaborates on our
wiki, we will be creating a collective body of intelligence. |
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