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This is my wiki for the New and Emerging Technologies class.

//**Formative Feedback Strategy assignment:**// In this unit, think about a learning activity you are using or are planning to use in your classroom or professional work, and share one way that you will provide feedback regarding that activity while using that information to guide your next instructional steps.

I am using WebCT as an introduction to blogging with my students. It is a safe and secure environment that is not 'open' to others and only accessible by me and the students. In this learning activity, students are asked specific questions within the blog (topic) and then blog about their thoughts regarding the topic. The responses given by the students are used as additional prompts in our journaling area and relate to a current topic of discussion at a given time in the American Music History unit. I am able to use their responses to guide what we do in the journals. I do provide feedback to students through the discussion/post area within WebCT as well. The students seem to like using the blog (they like the fact that we "blog" in music class) and they get to share their ideas for journal prompts with me and other classmates, plus share ideas with 6th graders who are not in their specific class period. So far, so good!

//**Guided Inquiry Activity assignment:**// ** African WebVisit Scavenger Hunt **

Go to the site: [] and use the information located within the site to answer the following questions.


 * 1) What is the name of the Guide who will help you navigate through the country?
 * 2) Where does the Guide live?
 * 3) Where is the Canon Kituri School located?
 * 4) Where is the West Africa Secondary School located?
 * 5) Which grade level gave the tour of their class in the Mengo Senior School in Kempala, Uganda?
 * 6) What does a Horticulture Club get to do?
 * 7) How do the families who live in the countryside of Kampala get their water?
 * 8) What kinds of music activities are available at the Mengo School?
 * 9) What kind of answers did the Mengo Senior School Students give regarding questions about their school in an email?
 * 10) The students from Ngaka Maseko High School in Winterveldt, South Africa live in what town?
 * 11) What people are distantly related to the Zulu people in the Winterveldt area?
 * 12) What are the special trees that grown in Winterveldt called?
 * 13) What is metered water in the Winterveldt area?
 * 14) Find out TWO more facts about one of the 4 places listed on the map.

LISTEN TO THE SWAHILI FOLK TALE and help the prince complete his tests.

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