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toc = ** Lab work for March 12, 2012: ** = ** Students in both labs please do the following activities... **

**OBJECTIVES for Lab:**

 * Check your comprehension by taking the quiz on chapter 9.
 * Learn how blogs can be utilized as a tool for your future classroom.
 * Create a blog that could be used in your future classroom using edublogs.org or blogger.com.

Step 1: Moodle Chapter 9 quiz
Click [|here] to access Moodle.

Step 2: Embed storybird and Comment on Another Person's Storybird

 * Make sure that your storybird is on your wiki page
 * Make a comment about two people's storybird on their wiki portfolio discussion page

Step 3:Create a blog
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 * === Tutorial for edublogs.org ===

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 * === For more edublogs tutorials click [|here] ===
 * === **My blogs can serve as examples:** ===
 * [|minerclass.edublogs.org]
 * [|minerclass.blogspot.com]
 * === For teachers/classroom blogs click on links below: ===
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 * Here is a blogger tutorial
 * Other Blogs that can be used...
 * tumblr (tumblr.com)
 * my example:
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 * For more information about blogging click here.

Step 4: Please complete the mid-course reflection below:
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Step 5: Respond to my blog
By the end of class about blogging. Click [|here]

= Lecture for March 12, 2012 =

**OBJECTIVES for Lecture:**

 * Understand the usefulness of blogging as a way for anytime learning in your future classroom.
 * Explore the history and timeline of the Internet.
 * Reflect on the Internet of Things and where technology is going.

Intro/Prayer (5 min)
72.5 was the average grade for this portion of the exam

Blogging in the Classroom (15 min)
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History of the Internet (15 min)
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The Internet of Things (15 min)
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