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Assignment 8: Google Earth Tour

 * Create a tour of at least 5 places on Google Earth
 * Include photos and/or explanations of your places
 * Link your Tour on your PLE

Assignment 7: Creating Your PLE
=== Your PLE (personal learning environment) should include:A format/layout of your choice ===


 * A home page and at least one other page
 * Color and graphics on the home page
 * a widget of your choice (calendar, audio, counter, etc.)
 * quizlet link (quizlet.com)
 * your survey
 * link to Rubistar, and your rubric
 * link to EBSCO
 * links to at least 3 other resources you find useful
 * Video/audio presentation (Glogster, Xtranormal, etc.)

Your links should not show entire URLs __**AND**__ you should annotate your links.

Your navigation menu should match your pages.

DO NOT use your entire name or other identifying information anywhere on your wiki.

Assignment 6 : Using Video and Audio tools:
Investigate Voicethread, Xtranormal, Glogster, Prezi or another tool of your choice. Record a short movie or make a poster with sound and animation. Post your product on your wiki page.

For this assignment you will learn to make a form and survey your classmates.

1. Consider something interesting to investigate in a group of 6th graders (music preferences, vacations, pets, favorite movies, books, restaurants, etc.). 2. Log in to your Google account 3. Go to "Create" and choose "form" 4. Click on the box for: "Require **Littleton Public Schools** sign-in to view this form." AND "Automatically collect respondent's **Littleton Public Schools** username." This way you will be able to see who responds to your survey. 5. Give your survey a title

6. Type your first question in the yellow field for "question title". You need to decide what types of responses you want and choose the "question type" that works for your question.

7. Click "Make this a required question" and then "Done"

8. Continue for each of your questions (after you've used the pre-made sample questions, you'll need to use the button at the top for +Add Item to make more questions. 9. Embed your survey on your wiki page. 10. Invite people not in this class to take your survey. You can send a link to your survey via email.

Assignment 4:
1. Add at least 2 widgets to your student page.

Go to the widget tool in the "edit" window on your page. Explore the many different widgets you can select to add to your page. Choose at least two. Save your page, then check the function of your widgets to make sure they work properly.

Assignment 3:
For assignment 3 you're going to create a Google Doc to link on your wiki page. 1. Go to your Google Docs account and create a new document. 2. Write a short paragraph about your 6th grade goals for this semester. 3. Download your document to your netbook. 4. Create a link to your document on your wiki page. 5. Send me a message when you've completed this assignment.

Assignment 2:
For assignment 2 you're going to take an online learning style inventory.


 * 1) Please go to this site and read the instructions:

Learning Style Inventory

2. Take the inventory, then look at your results (you can print them if you want).

3. Go to our class' discussion under the discussion tab and follow my instructions there.

Assignment 1:
Funbrain [| Quotes] CNN news 7. Send me a message on the wiki mail tool to tell me that you completed the task.
 * 1) Read the help menu to see what you can do on a wiki.
 * 2) Click on the discussion tab and add a comment on the topic you see.
 * 3) Edit your page to add some color.
 * 4) Find a picture to paste on your page.
 * 1) Create a link to a website.