1. Websites for Middle School Students
Sharon Gray, Instructional Technologist
Augustana College, Sioux Falls

2. Why bother? Access to INFORMATION and RESOURCES
Ability to ACCOMMODATE varied learning styles
Opportunity to create ENGAGED learners
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3. You’re teaching a “Gameboy” generation
Technology is not a cure-all, but there will be an expectation of technology integration…
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4. The Biography Maker Sharon Gray’s Website Battle Maps
(for kids)
Battle Maps
The Biography Maker
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Sharon Gray’s Website
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5. It’s important to teach students how to protect themselves on the Web…
It’s important to teach students how to protect themselves on the Web…
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6. Social Networking
An online space where users create profiles describing themselves and their interests and link to other individuals and groups with similar interests
First social networking site was Classmates.com
Popular current social networking sites:
MySpace (largest worldwide with roughly 169 million users)
Founded in 2003
Purchased by News Corp. in 2006 for $580 million
Orkut (owned by Google, roughly 46 million users)
Bebo (roughly 32 million users)
Facebook (largest college-focused with roughly 25 million users*)
*2007
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7. In the Fall of 2002, the Bush administration announced its plans for a program called "Total Information Awareness" (Sourcewatch, Wikipedia.) It was intended to be a counter-terrorism database to help track the activities of "people loosely organized in shadowy networks." Amidst a flurry of concern by privacy advocates, the name was changed to "Terrorism Information Awareness ." The government has since announced that the program no longer exists (USA Today ) But an interesting private sector phenomenon - Facebook has emerged which does many of the same things the massive "Total Information Awareness" program was intended to do: create a database of practically everyone, complete with photographs and links between people. And, students around the U.S. are voluntarily feeding it data (CommonGroundCommonsense, Jacob Morse's blog, The Student Underground.)
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