Session 3

After what seemed like a really long time, session 3 arrived. I had some trouble with the digital drop box but i believe i have it under control now. The first part of the class we talked about our webquests that we made. Unfortunately i saved it as a word processor doc, so i wasn't able to view it at school. When i was browsing Webquests i stumbled upon alot of good ones, but couldn't find a way to make them my own. I finally got to one that i could work with a bit. The second part to the class was working with a program called 'Inspiration.' It's a neat little program that helps with graphic organizers. You can customize them any way you want, and you can import little graphics to make it look better. Another nice feature, was transferring your product to a word processor and coming up with a list of your ideas. You can also import what you make in inspiration to powerpoint. It can be a good learning tool for teachers trying to explain timelines or main ideas (for social studies). We then attempted to do the same thing in the word processor which was a bit harder, and wasn't as easy.
The end of the class we formed our groups to do our cultural project. The country that my group will be doing is Norway, and i will be taking care of the music aspect. This sounds like fun, and making a website should be a good learning experience. I need to start looking up information on the net about music from Norway in the past 50 years.