G10 2nd Semester Tech Class #29

Today is the last day we will be working in class on your final product!

Please visit past blog post entries for details on the expectations and content needed for this part of the project:

• G10 2nd Semester Tech Class #28
• G10 2nd Semester Tech Clas #27
• G10 2nd Semester Tech Class #26

Record all your progress in your Process Journal before you turn in your Final Product.

Please make sure you are including the Assignment Standards and turn in your work by following the steps to submit and assignments.

G10 2nd Semester Tech Class #19

Hello G10 students!

I am not at school today as I am heading to Atlanta, GA to visit the Ron Clark Academy and attend this weekend's National Teachers Conference together with other WA teachers :-)

Please continue working on Project 2 today:

1. Everyone, please read these articles: 

• How QR Codes bring Museum tours to life (Article)
• Cook Children's Hospital pioneers in using bar codes for vaccines (Article)

2. Get your group members organized to take roles and work on the following activities during today's class:

3. Start planning/developing the map of the whole school as your starting point. Next class you will be assigned your group specific 'tour stops'.

To get started with your map you can visit last class' blog post and/or take a look at these:

• Make a map of the school using Google SketchUp
• Have a look at the K-12 Education SketchUp Gallery
• You can also explore this MineCraft Wiki for ideas

4. Based on our last class' group discussions and your work on the Form, please take these into account and start writing you Investigation assignment: 

• who would the audience be?
• what would they expect to get from the tour?
• what stops/places are we looking into listing in our tour? why?
• what are the highlights of WA that you think should be included in the tour?
• Different kinds of presentations are used in digital supported tours
• What are QR Codes?
• When and where are QR Codes used? (did you read the articles listed above? ;-)
• How will you build a 3D map of the school and a close up on your groups' tour stop

You can use this Investigation Template Shared Doc to get started.

G10 2nd Semester Tech Class #18

Today we will begin Project 2! The dynamic will be the following:

• Regroup for this project with someone who you haven't work with during Project 1.
• discuss as a class where / how will we identify the stops needed for the Tour?
• one stop per group will be assigned
• create a map of your assigned tour stop
• create a storyboard and script of what your  tour stop will be about
• choose the application/tool that you think best suits your needs: website, video, animation, voicethread, etc
• shoot video, take pics, conduct interviews, etc to get the content needed and synthesize it digitally
• compile all links/postings together
• share with me/upload the final product (movie, animation, etc)
• get an URL for it
• create a QR Code  to access the URL
• use a QR Code to identify the stop
• fully test QR Codes, links, postings, videos, etc
• print and laminate a big QR Code for your tour stop (1/4 letter size page and write your names on the back after laminating it)
• install QR Codes @ tour stops
• add all virtual tour stops to our wiki (What is this?)

Let's start thinking about the following for our Project 2:

• what are QR Codes?
• why use QR Codes?
• QR codes bring Museum tours to life (Article)
• who would the audience be?
• what would they expect to get from the tour?
• what stops/places are we looking into listing in our tour?
• why?
• what are the highlights of WA that you think should be included in the tour?

Please post your answers to this Form.

Using Top-down and Bottom-up strategies start planning how will you make the map of the school as our starting point and plan to add/zoom into your Tour Stop. Please take a look at these:

• making a map of the school using Google SketchUp
• Have a look at the K-12 Education SketchUp Gallery
• You can also explore this MindCraft Wiki for ideas