Online+Journals

= Once your students have found and organized their information these are some tools that they can use to create online journals. You can use one or you could use a combination of Blogs and Wikis. The great thing is that in either links can easily be posted to navigate to desired content. =

== [|Blogs]- A blog would be great for this project. A blog is essentially an online journal. Your students will be able to post content to their blog; text, pictures, video, audio, links and more. You and any other students would be able to read the blog and, one of the best features, is being able to post responses to the authors work. For this class you could have students each create a blog and post on it once a week to update progress on research and on the 4th week they could post their project. ==

== [|Wikis]- A wiki is like a blog that is comprised of several pages that are connected by links. Many wikis are open to anyone to edit and add pages to and some can be closed and view only. For this class you could create a class-wide wiki and assign students to create a page or pages to keep the other students and yourself up to date on their progress and it would be a place to post projects. ==

== [|Jing]- While not a medium to display your work, Jing is a great tool to help to capture and share images, video and a wide variety of media for use on your blog or wiki. Jing is a screen capture tool that is free to download. It can take a picture of whatever is on your computer screen and more importantly it can capture video of what is happening on your screen in real time. It's a great way to, for example, show someone how to operate a computer program, because Jing records the screen mouse pointer and all. With a microphone installed Jing will also be able to record your spoken directions as well. ==

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