Peggy Altman's Online Notebook

Interaction Models: sharing ideas, reflections and questions.

Blog Reflections: http://pwhitaltman.blogspot.com 

Column Notetaking: Chapter two example

WonderWeb
  HOTS Category SUP (# responses)  FAQ (# responses) Responses to others
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Unless you really wish to keep it, you can delete the directions for this page below the horizontal line once you've learned the procedures. The instructions will always be available in chapter one even when the link to them from your page is removed. The first time through, watch the movies. Later it will be faster to skim the text for steps that you might have difficulty remembering.

A Notebook for Cyberspace: Thinking Out Loud

Growing knowledge is greatly stimulated by wonder, questions and note-taking. The top of this page has direct links to model questions for different levels of thinking, of higher order thinking skills, sometimes abbreviated as HOTS. The NorthWest Model is simpler and easier to remember and use. In 1994, the Department of Public Instruction created their own North Carolina HOTS model, creating a variation on Marzano's model. Tracking progress and research through notebooks has been a common feature of life for both writers and scientists for centuries. Using those mental skills, the web gives us powerful new ways to manage and grow our own personal knowledge and global knowledge. This page provides different working examples.

The Blog

Go to www.blogger.com and create a free account. Note your newly created web address and paste it above. There are many directions within your blog site editing tools on how to manage your blog and do ever more sophisticated things with it. Continue posting your reflections to your blog throughout the course, one posting for each chapter we study.

What is a reflection? A reflection is a combination of questions and reactions to the material you study. A reflection is thinking about ones own thinking and that of others; it is persistent, ongoing evaluation of knowledge and of the evidence that supports such knowledge. Use the Blog reflection space to wonder about, challenge and consider ideas in the given chapter in light of your professional and career needs. It is a place to "think out loud" and in this case in a space to which others can respond. This reflection is not a place to complain about something you cannot get working, or can't get to because your life is too busy. Such immediate needs should be dealt with an email direct to your instructor or with communication with one of our technical support groups. The advantage of the blog is its speed and convenience in getting your ideas out, in sharing thoughts with a larger group. It also provides an automated way for readers to post comments to which you and others can respond. Continuing dialog on your ideas and questions is a powerful way to both teach and learn.

Column Notetaking

For this course, a web page of two-column notetaking is only required for one lecture in the second chapter of activities as a basis of comparison with blogging. In time you might find blogging limiting and confining for the way you organize and share information when taking a course and throughout your career. Having a web page of two-column notetaking for each chapter, book or class session is a model of another direction you might go, but there are many.

WonderWeb

The WonderWeb enables learners to track and share their inquiry. There many ways to integrate the WonderWeb into classrooms of all ages. The WonderWeb table links makes up a digital version of your own WonderWeb questions and responses. Questions not answered to your satisfaction stay under the SUP column.

To grow the table, copy and paste information from your WonderWeb posting to the web page table. First, open this web page in a web page editor such as Netscape's Composer, Frontpage or Dreamweaver. Next, in a web browser, click on and open your first WonderWeb question that you posted. From the posting, copy (highlight and select) the subject of your message and then click on the page being edited in your web page editor. Paste this heading into the proper table cell under SUP. Next, this heading needs to become a link to the actual web page posting. To do so, go back to your WonderWeb posting page and copy its web address. Return to your web page editor. Highlight your heading. Select the link editor button or click Insert in the menu bar and choose Link or Hyperlink. Paste the web address into the field that appears, then click OK. This creates a link.

How many folks have responded to your question? In parentheses, put the number zero or higher number to match the number of responses.

Responses to others go under the column by the same name. On the WonderWeb page, find a link to a response you made and select it. On your web editor page, type in the name of the person you responded to and a shortened from of the date, the month and day. On the WonderWeb page, highlight and copy the link. On the web editor page, highlight the person's first name, and follow the same procedure for making a link.

After chapter six or earlier, examine the set of questions that has emerged and choose its type of higher order thinking skill.

Just Do It - Editing This Web Page

Use the "higher order thinking skills" question links at the top of the page to help you think of questions that will help you wonder and reflect on each chapter's material and experiences.

 You are welcome to leave these instructions on this page until the end of the semester if you need to keep these directions quickly available. However, these instructions should be deleted before the final grading of your web site. Remember, they will always be available in the chapter.


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