3.+Research+Process+and+Evaluation

The Process and Resources Although this process is quick and painless (hopefully), there are still steps that you need to follow in order to help you organize your thoughts and effectively complete the activity. The Big 6, a research module you may be familiar with, will help you on your quest to becoming a Web 2.0 tool expert! Step 1: Defining Our Task So first we need to figure out, why are we doing this? Our essential question: Does our tool enhance learning? How? Step 2: Narrowing Our Topic Visit the  [|Internet4Classrooms] website and pick a tool as a group that you are going to evaluate. Try to choose something that no one in your group has heard of before or something that might lend itself well to your subject area. Step 3: Finding Our Information For this quest, you get lucky. You don’t have to take notes! All you have to do is play with your tool. Get a feel for it. Do you need to create a username and password? What does it do? Can you see your students using this in the future?

Step 4: Using Our Information This is the only part of the quest where you get to work by yourself, so take a moment and think about __your__ classroom. Would you use this tool in your teaching? Are you envisioning a specific lesson that would work well by incorporating this tool? Would this tool even enhance the lesson? If you are stuck, please visit this  [|blog] if you need some specific ideas about how to evaluate your tool. Jot down some ideas either by hand or on the document below.

Step 5: Presenting Our Information Please take a few minutes to share your ideas with your teammates. You may have come up with one really strong idea or several smaller ideas. Whatever it is, the point is that you share! Does someone in your group have a different perspective? Step 6: Evaluating Our Work Please take a few minutes with your team members and fill out this [|survey].