Orientation+Tasks


 * Heads-Up: Opening a new window will make it easier for you to follow the step-by-step instructions on this page.**

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1. Sign Waiver and Consent Form
Tools: Moodle at http://moodle.wolfware.ncsu.edu/

Directions: The Waiver and Consent Form is the only task that NC State students need to complete in the Moodle. If you have any questions about this form, please contact me right away. Cris at 919.247.7955 or decrissm@ncsu.edu

2. Send Check-in Message
Tools: Email Directions: Simply email to assure me that you have received my Let's Get Started Letter, that you were able to access the Moodle to sign the Waiver and Consent forum, to let me know the best way to contact you if I need to get information to you quickly, and to share information about any learning needs or special circumstances that I should know of to better facilitate your learning this semester. My email is decrissm@ncsu.edu

3. Send "Live the Questions" Tweet
Tools : Twitter, Paper.li, Netvibes Directions:

Be certain to study the Syllabus carefully. Post a question or respond to a question on Twitter using the #Bookhenge hashtag. I've added a link to the #Bookhenge search page from the Navigation Bar -- See Resources > Live the Questions. New to Twitter? Check out this tutorial for setting up a Twitter account and this how-to and cultural/technical intro: Mom, This Is How Twitter Works ;-)

Be sure to upload an image to your Twitter profile.


 * NEWS FLASH: ** Here's a video explaining the purpose and process for our use of Twitter in ECI 521 -- "Twitter Is the Street."

To learn from the "collective wisdom," you've three opportunities: 1. Click on "Live the Questions" in the Navigation list in the right frame of every page. You'll see the Twitter feed for #Bookhenge. You may need to switch from "Top" to "All" as shown in the image below, though all tweets may wel be from Cris2B for the first hours or so.

2. Click on The Bookhenge Daily to find a magazine-like edition with articles/resources tweeted to #Bookhenge. It's published twice a day and can be accessed from the link under the VuVox continuum on the Bookhenge homepage. Then click on "Read Paper" -- green button at top right of the magazine. You can also subscribe to receive this paper to your email account. To see past issues, click on "Archives."

3. Click on The Bookhenge Netvibes Dashboard for an easy to follow #Bookhenge Twitter stream. You'll also see videos and images tagged "Bookhenge." The blog function isn't reliable though so tweeting to announce your new blogs is best.



4. Create Personal Class Trading Card
Tools: Google Docs Directions : Click here or on the Wallwisher slide in the slideshow on the homepage. You'll see a WallWisher page prepared for our class's "Twitter bios" which are considered the "elevator speeches" (brief, memorable, defining descriptions of ourselves).

Here are play-by-play instructions for adding your Twitter bio and image. Step 1: Compose a short (up to 160 characters) memorable, one-of-a-kind bio. Here's an interesting article about Twitter bios and their creation. Step 2: **HEADS-UP: You should take the time to create an account -- it's really quick -- if you'd like to return to edit your card. No account-- no editing.** Step 3: Choose your spot on the page and double-click. Step 4: Type or copy/paste your bio into the text box. Step 5: This is the tricky part. To add an image, you must provide a url. This is different that most sites where you upload an image file. If you have no images you'd like to add that are already on the Web, then you could easily use the image you upload to Twitter.. Step 6: To use Twitter image (or any, really) -- In Firefox: Click on the image and "copy image location." Then simply copy the url of the image at the top of that page. You'll see in the screen save below. In Internet Explorer: Right click and select "Open link in new tab." This should isolate your image on a single page. Then copy the url at the top of the page.



Step 7: Paste the image's url into the space provided for "images, audio, or video files." Step 8: Admire your work, enjoy getting sneak previews of course colleagues, and contemplate how you might use WallWisher creatively.

**5. Record Journey Book Reflection**
A Journey Book is a book that made an impact on your in some way. It's one you've carried with you along your journey to this point in your life.
 * Tools: **VoiceThread
 * Directions **

For this activity, you will create a short story of your discovery of a Journey Book during your young adult years (ages 12 to 21). The goal of this mini-bookcast is to cast as in "to set forth or let loose" a response to the book that shares not the story of the book but something that the book brought out in you, perhaps what you felt or learned through the reading and reflecting. You have up to 120 seconds to tell this story.

Consider this a mini-podcast and strive to use creativity to make it engaging and compelling. Check out Dan Pink's Elements of Creativity for inspiration. Find more details on the Journey Book Project Specs.

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 * HEADS-UP: Remember that you're not creating a new VoiceThread but commenting on the Journey Book VoiceThread.** For instructions for using VoiceThread, check out VoiceThread Help.

Project Specs (including Rubric) . ..

6. Join Class Diigo Group
Tools: Diigo Diigo is a social bookmarking tool with many valuable functions like highlighting and annotating web sites that are helpful for collaboration and guiding students.

Directions: Click on this link and you will see our Class Diigo Group, The Bookhenge. Click on the blue button, "Apply to Join This Group." If you already have an account, then simply sign-in and I'll receive and approve your request. Or to create an account, look at the lower-center of the screen and click on "Don't have a Diigo account yet? [|Create a Diigo account now (free!)."] Or use the link here. That will work!

Why Diigo? Soon you'll be asking, "How did I ever use the Web without it?" Watch this video to see what you can do when you Diigo!

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**7. Complete a Funds of Knowledge Inventory (Pre)**

 * Tools: ** Your blog, Google Docs

The Funds of Knowledge concept was introduced by literacy researcher Luis Mol l(1997) who envisioned it as a way to build community, encourage empathy and appreciation of diversity, and leverage resources within school communities.
 * Directions: **

Our Funds of Knowledge Inventories will help us take stock on what we bring to the class and what we can learn from others.

The process begins with your own FOKI that you'll publish to your blog and leads to your introduction of a colleague through their FOKI that you will post on our Class FOKI Synthesis (a Google Docs page that is open for editing).

For complete instructions and rubric, see the **Project Specs, FOKI.**


 * To set up your blog:**

If you already have a blog then simply add a new category. If you don't, then check out the blogging tool recommendations under **Tools for Communication** and choose a tool that appeals to you. From past experience, I'd recommend WordPress. We've had some trouble adding comments to Blogger if you don't have a Blogger account and Edublog has irritating ad links within the body of the blog post. Also consider thoughtfully and creatively the name you'll give your blog.

Once you have your blog, post the link and title to our blog directory . ..

Be sure and tweet all of your blog posts so they will appear in The Bookhenge Daily(daily compilation of tweets that's presented in a magazine style). Also tag them with Bookhenge (good idea to add Bookhenge after the final line in the body of your blog post, too) so we'll see them in the Bookhenge Netvibes Dashboard(compliation of all tweets, blog posts, videos, practically everything tagged Bookhenge).

8.**Critical Reflection Post (CR Post)**

 * Tools: ** Your blog

Whew! That was a short ten days! Now, simply pause to reflect about your work so far and be sure to examine any assumptions you had about the class, young adult literature, teaching and learning with technology, etc. -- anything that you feel relates to the work this first session -- and how you may think differently after the first session or suspect you are beginning to think differently about. Strive for ahas and epiphanies or slow realizations shared in an interesting way rather than play-by-play formal essays or stream-of-conscousiness reports. See Kurt Vonnegut's advice for "bloggers". ..
 * Directions: **

1. **Find a subject you care about.** 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound like yourself. 6. Say what you mean to say. 7. Pity the readers.
 * As quoted in //Science Fictionisms// (1995), compiled by William Rotsler [|(cited in Wikipedia)].