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“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded.” ― Bessie Anderson Stanley

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Sharing Blogs, Root Tracing Assignment, and a Little Bit More


Last Night, we had another fun and interesting class in which all of the students introduced their blog for this class.  Once again, something new to learn! I knew that we can share PowerPoint presentations on WIMBA, but I didn’t know that we could also share our blogs.  While some of the blogs looked more elaborated than others, each of them had a touch of originality.  I also learned that we can actually open a second window for our presentation, which makes it more pretty and easy to navigate.
    
In addition, Dr. Ackerman talked to us about our Root Tracing Group Assignment, in which each group would need to create and post an exhibit about the evolution of adults and children learning.  It seems to be very interesting.  We will be concentrating on Constructivism and focusing on The 6 Elements of the Constructivist Learning Design (Situation, Grouping, Bridge, Questions, Exhibit, and Reflection).

By the way, because it seems that we are putting together a timeline, I did some research in how to create one, and I would like to share the information that I found with all of you.  As many of you already know, we can Create a Timeline Using Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.  However, there are also at least 10 Best Timeline Websites that we could use as well.  Please feel free to look and read through this information, as well as to listen to the videos that I am including because they can certainly be very beneficial.  As a matter of fact, you can actually....

Make a Timeline in Just a Few Clicks

Make a Timeline in Microsoft Word

Create a Timeline in Microsoft Excel

Until next week.....

3 comments:

  1. Hi Johana,

    Thank you for posting the links and videos! They were the perfect tool to help my group decide upon a venue for our timeline. We decided to go with Dipity because it seemed to be the easiest to use even with extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office programs. I too liked that we could share our blogs over Wimba. Tonight I am going to watch the Wimab tutorials on Black Board so I am better prepared to use the software in class.

    See you in class...

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  2. Hey Johana,

    I really enjoyed your blog post this week, especially with the videos on how to use the various timeline tools. Our group will probably determine which tool we want to use this evening when we all "Break-out". I'll encourage those that haven't read your blog to take a look at it for the different options, too.

    See you virtually,

    Audra

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  3. Shannon Chase February 24, 2013 3:50 pm
    This is great. I didnt know that we the office suite can do so many interesting things before this class. I'm adding this to my list of tool. Having just started the degree program I really appreciate seeing all the different tools people are using.

    :)
    Shannon

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