Week+Two

Week 2: Explore Various Online Instructional Tools
> Metropolitan Museum and/or Tenement Museum Project
 * Participate in a model collaborative project. Go to the project page and follow the directions. Try out some of the activities and add your own!


 * [|Discussion: Reflections on activity] Join the Discussion Forum and post your reflections on the model project you chose in the Forum on that project - Metropolitan Museum or Tenement Museum.


 * Explore a gallery of online tools . Go to the tools page and select a tool you are not familiar with. Go to the site and join. Explore this tool. Then enter your comments and description of the tool and how you could use it in teaching -- On the Participants' Tool Exploration Page
 * Participants form groups. Go to the [|YG Database, Participants], and look for others who live in time zones near you and teach students in a similar age group. Or read through the Introductions in the Yahoo! Group messages to find participants for your group. Contact them and decide on a plan for working during Week 3 and Week 4. You will be developing your online collaborative Big Apple activity based on one of the Venues in New York City and using some of the Online Tools you have been exploring this week.