Understanding Blogs and E-Portfolios in Education Quiz and Flashcards

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Webkinz is an Internet simulation wherein children learn pet care and other skills. It is a virtual world that uses avatars to explore and socialize. Children can create and trade items and services in this 3-D virtual world, which is sometimes called Web ______.

3.0

Wikis enable students to create, comment upon, and revise collaborative projects. One of the most prominent wikis is ______, an online multilingual free-content encyclopedia with over a million articles in 253 languages.

Wikipedia

YouTube is a popular website for video sharing where users can upload, view, and share video footage, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, even student-produced videos. Google Docs allows students to collaborate on documents and materials that need to be compiled, processed, transacted, and ______.

analyzed

Prezi allows individuals to use pre-made, creative presentation templates. Easybib allows individuals to generate citations in any given format. Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Edmodo, and Instagram are means to communicate and share ideas among ______.

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Smartboards and audience response systems are replacements for traditional chalkboards or whiteboards in classrooms. ReadWriteThink.org is a repository of standards-based literacy lessons that offer teachers instructional ideas for Internet integration. WebQuest Page provides Webquests on an array of topics across content areas with a template for creating one's ______.

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Literacy Web is an online portal that includes a large number of new literacy resources for teachers. It provides resources for new literacies, such as digital literacy, and aims to enhance teachers' understanding and implementation of these ______.

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Web logs or 'blogs' are Interactive websites, often open to the public that can include Web links, photographs and audio and video elements. E-portfolio refers to student's works that are generated, selected, organized, stored, and revised digitally. Often electronic portfolios are accessible to multiple audiences and can be moved from one site to another easily. It can document the process of learning, promote integrative thinking, display final work, and/or provide a space for reflective learning. Hypertext are electronic texts that provide multiple links and allow users to trace ideas in immediate and idiosyncratic directions. Hypermedia adds sound, video, animation, and virtual reality environments to the user's choices. Podcasts are digitalized audio files that are stored on the Internet and downloaded to listeners' computers or most likely to MP3 players. The term 'podcast' comes from iPod, the popular MP3 player. Web 2.0 refers to a second generation of Web-based communities that demonstrate the participatory literacies that students need for the 21st-century. Myspace is a social networking website that offers an interactive user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos internationally. Students can rate professors, discuss books, and connect with high school and college classmates here. Second Life is a ______ (http://www.secondlife.com).

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Web logs or 'blogs' are Interactive websites, often open to the public that can include Web links, photographs and audio and video elements. E-portfolio refers to student's works that are generated, selected, organized, stored, and revised digitally. Often electronic portfolios are accessible to multiple audiences and can be moved from one site to another easily. It can document the process of learning, promote integrative thinking, display final work, and/or provide a space for reflective learning. Hypertext are electronic texts that provide multiple links and allow users to trace ideas in immediate and idiosyncratic directions. Hypermedia adds sound, video, animation, and virtual reality environments to the user's choices. Podcasts are digitalized audio files that are stored on the Internet and downloaded to listeners' computers or most likely to MP3 players. The term 'podcast' comes from iPod, the popular MP3 player. Web 2.0 refers to a second generation of Web-based communities that demonstrate the participatory literacies that students need for the 21st-century. Myspace is a social networking website that offers an interactive user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos internationally. Students can rate professors, discuss books, and connect with high school and college classmates here. Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com) refers to a ______.

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Web logs or 'blogs' are Interactive websites, often open to the public that can include Web links, photographs and audio and video elements. E-portfolio refers to student's works that are generated, selected, organized, stored, and revised digitally. Often electronic portfolios are accessible to multiple audiences and can be moved from one site to another easily. It can document the process of learning, promote integrative thinking, display final work, and/or provide a space for reflective learning. Hypertext are electronic texts that provide multiple links and allow users to trace ideas in immediate and idiosyncratic directions. Hypermedia adds sound, video, animation, and virtual reality environments to the user's choices. Podcasts are digitalized audio files that are stored on the Internet and downloaded to listeners' computers or most likely to MP3 players. The term 'podcast' comes from iPod, the popular MP3 player. Web 2.0 refers to a second generation of Web-based communities that demonstrate the participatory literacies that students need for the 21st-century. Myspace is a ______ website that offers an interactive user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos internationally. Students can rate professors, discuss books, and connect with high school and college classmates here.

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Web logs or 'blogs' are Interactive websites, often open to the public that can include Web links, photographs and audio and video elements. E-portfolio refers to student's works that are generated, selected, organized, stored, and revised digitally. Often electronic portfolios are accessible to multiple audiences and can be moved from one site to another easily. It can document the process of learning, promote integrative thinking, display final work, and/or provide a space for reflective learning. Hypertext are electronic texts that provide multiple links and allow users to trace ideas in immediate and idiosyncratic directions. Hypermedia adds sound, video, animation, and virtual reality environments to the user's choices. Podcasts are digitalized audio files that are stored on the Internet and downloaded to listeners' computers or most likely to MP3 players. The term 'podcast' comes from iPod, the popular MP3 player. Web 2.0 refers to a second generation of Web-based communities that demonstrate the participatory literacies that students need for the 21st-century. ______ adds sound, video, animation, and virtual reality environments to the user's choices.

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Web logs or 'blogs' are Interactive websites, often open to the public that can include Web links, photographs and audio and video elements. E-portfolio refers to student's works that are generated, selected, organized, stored, and revised digitally. Often electronic portfolios are accessible to multiple audiences and can be moved from one site to another easily. It can document the process of learning, promote integrative thinking, display final work, and/or provide a space for reflective learning. ______ are electronic texts that provide multiple links and allow users to trace ideas in immediate and idiosyncratic directions.

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Web logs or 'blogs' are Interactive websites, often open to the public that can include Web links, photographs and audio and video elements. E-portfolio refers to student's works that are generated, selected, organized, stored, and revised digitally. Often electronic portfolios are accessible to multiple audiences and can be moved from one site to another easily. ______ are digitalized audio files that are stored on the Internet and downloaded to listeners' computers or most likely to MP3 players.

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Study Notes

Virtual Environments

Second Life is an Internet-based 3-D virtual world where users can explore, socialize, participate in activities, create and trade items and services using avatars (digital representations).

Web Technology

The Semantic Web (Web 3.0) is an extension of the current Web that puts data into a common format, enabling efficient and comprehensive information retrieval.
Webkinz is an Internet simulation where children learn pet care and other skills.

Collaboration Tools

Wikis are software that foster collaboration and communication online, enabling students to create, comment upon, and revise collaborative projects.
Examples of wikis include Wikipedia, a free online multilingual encyclopedia with over 1 million articles in 253 languages.

YouTube is a popular website for video sharing, where users can upload, view, and share video footage.
Google Docs allows students to collaborate with others on document materials that need to be compiled, processed, transacted, and analyzed.

Presentation and Citation

Prezi is a tool that allows individuals to use pre-made, creative presentation templates.
Easybib is a tool that generates citations in any given format.

Social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Edmodo, Schoology, Instagram, etc.) are means to communicate and share ideas among users.

Educational Tools

Smartboards and audience response systems are replacements for traditional chalkboards or whiteboards in classrooms.
ReadWriteThink.org is a repository of standards-based literacy lessons that offer teachers instructional ideas for Internet integration.
WebQuest Page provides Webquests on an array of topics across content areas with a template for creating one's own.
Literacy Web is an online portal that includes a large number of new literacy resources for teachers.

Interactive Websites and Portfolios

Blogs are interactive websites that can include web links, photographs, and audio and video elements.
E-portfolios are digital collections of students' works that can be selected, organized, stored, and revised digitally.

Hypermedia and Podcasts

Hypertexts are electronic texts that provide multiple links and allow users to trace ideas in immediate and idiosyncratic directions.
Hypermedia adds sound, video, animation, and virtual reality environments to the user's choices.
Podcasts are digitalized audio files that are stored on the Internet and downloaded to listeners' computers or MP3 players.

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Explore the concepts of web logs (blogs) and e-portfolios in the context of education. Learn about interactive websites, digital works, storing and sharing student works electronically, and the benefits of e-portfolios in documenting learning processes.