Building a Bigger Builder:

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• Building a Bigger Builder
• Combining the DE Builder tools with Web 2.0
  Widgets and Applications

Matt Monjan
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• Cool!

Whats a Widget?
The web widget is a portable chunk of code that
can be installed and executed within any separate
HTML-based web page by an end user without
requiring additional compilation. They are
derived from the idea of reusable code that has
existed for years. Nowadays other terms used to
describe web widgets including gadget, badge,
module, capsule, snippet, mini and flake. Web
widgets oftWiken but not always use DHTML,
JavaScript, or Adobe Flash. Wikipedia
contributors, Widget, Wikpedia, The Free
Encyclopedia, http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_wid
get (accessed 12/28/2007).
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Building it Bigger and better!Incorporating
Web 2.0 widgets into your builder

• There are hundreds of widgets that you can find.
  
• Take advantage of these free tools to add another
  dimension to your builder
• Were going to look at four.

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First Things First Creating a Builder Tool
But well come back to that
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Creating a Writing Prompt
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• Log into www.discoveryeducation.com Click on
  the Teacher Center link

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• Click on the Writing Prompt Icon

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Creating and Searching
Type a keyword in the Search box to search for
existing Writing Prompts, choose DE Writing
Prompts, and then click on the Search button
teacher
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Previewing and Copying a Writing Prompt
Click on the preview to see the Writing Prompt
and copy/edit to add the Writing Prompt to your
content
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Creating and Searching
Click on the Create New button to create a new
Writing Prompts
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Create a Title, select a Subject Area, Writing
Type, and Grade Level
Out Damned Spot
Save to an Existing Folder or Save to a New
Folder and place inside an Existing Folder
Shakespeare 2.0
Builder 2.0
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• Enter a keyword and choose image, clip art,
  full video, or video segment.
• Select up to three assets (images, clip art
  and/or video) and then click on the Add button

Shakespeare
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• Review and/or modify your selections and
  customize your border size

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• Enter the Writing part of your Writing Prompt
• 2,000 character maximum

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Add code from Youtube, Animoto, Voicethread and
more!

• Go to any Web 2.0 page (i.e. youtube) and copy
  the embed code.
• Click on the HTML button inside the Builder
• Paste code
• Click on the Update button
• Click on the save and continue button

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Preview your work
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Assign Your Work
Provide your students the link above. The link
can be embedded on blackboard and moodle pages,
websites, blogs, wikkis and more
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Viewing The Results

• Go back to My Content and click on your
  folder/writing prompt, etc.
• Pull down the drop down menu next to your prompt
• Select Grade Book and click on the Go button
• Click on your prompt to see the date completed,
  status, and to view the prompt response (grade)

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Creating an Interactive Quiz
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• Log into www.discoveryeducation.com Click on
  the Teacher Center link

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• Click on the Quiz Builder Icon

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Creating a New Quiz
Click on the Create New button
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Adding Information to Your Quiz

• Fill out any field marked by a
• Select where you would like to save (bookmark)
  your quiz
• A folder that youve already created (Save to
  Existing Folder)

Shakespeare 2.0
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Adding Information to Your Quiz Continued

• Or create a new folder
• Note that this folder must live in the My Content
  folder or another folder that has already been
  created

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• Fill in all of the boxes and check the Display to
  Students Box
• Choose your Quiz Options
• Click on the Save/continue button

Watch the video and then take the quiz
To understand Shakespeare the Man and how he
developed his writing style
Dont let Matt sit next to Hall!

• Receive an Email notification when a student
  completes this quiz
• Display quiz questions in random order
• Present the quiz question by question instead
  of all at once
• Allow student to view the graded quiz (with
  correct answers revealed)
• Allow student to take the quiz more than once

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Adding Content To Your Quiz

• Choose the type of Material You would like to add
  to your quiz

Shakespeare
Search My Content or Discovery Education Library
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Adding Content to Your Quiz Continued

• Click on the link to view
• Place a check mark next to anything that you
  would like to add
• Click on the Add button

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• The content that you selected shows up in the My
  Quiz Materials Box

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Adding Questions

• Create your own question or use one from the quiz
  data bank

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Creating your own questions
Choose your Question TypeMultiple Choice
(single answer) Multiple Choice (multiple
answer) Short Answer/Essay True/False Then click
on its link
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Adding a question

• Enter your question
• Provide a hint (e.g. watch the movie)
• Provide a note when correct answer is chosen
• Provide a note when wrong answer is chosen
• Enter your quiz answers and select the correct
  answer
• Click on the Save Question button

Shakespeare expanded the roles of two characters
in his version of Romeo and Juliet. Those two
characters were _____.
Great Job!
Oops try again
Watch the movie
Mercutio and Nurse
Paris and Mercutio
Lady Capulet and Nurse
Friar Lawrence and Tybalt
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Two New Features!

• You can add a video that is displayed when a
  question is presented to student
• Your can add a video that is displayed when the
  student answers a question incorrectly

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Choosing questions from the Quiz Databank

• Create your own question or use one from the quiz
  data bank

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Choosing questions from the Quiz Databank

• Enter a Keyword and click on the Go button

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• Place a check mark next to any of the questions
  that you want to add
• Click on the question link to see how it is
  formed
• Click on the Add Selected Questions to Quiz button

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Preview your quiz

• Print out your quiz in Word w/or without the
  correct answers

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Assign Your Quiz
Provide your students the link above. The link
can be embedded on blackboard and moodle pages,
websites, blogs, wikkis and more
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Snazz it up with slideshare.net

• Slideshare.net is a free Web 2.0 application that
  lets you upload and search for PowerPoint
  presentations, share them, and embed them into
  the Builders.

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Inserting Into Your
Quiz

• Go to any Web 2.0 page (i.e. slidehare.net) and
  copy the embed code.
• Click on the HTML button inside the Builder
• Paste code
• Click on the Update button
• Click on the save and continue button

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Inserting presentations
SlideShare.net

• Embed PowerPoint presentations
• Link directly to specific pages within
  presentation
• Great way to assess value of student created
  presentation (open book quiz)

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Viewing The Results

• Go back to My Content and click on your
  folder/quiz, etc.
• Pull down the drop down menu next to your prompt
• Select Grade Book and click on the Go button
• Click on your quiz to see the date completed,
  grades, and to view the student responses
  (grades)

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Creating an Assignment
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• Log into www.discoveryeducation.com Click on
  the Teacher Center link

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• Click on the Assignment Builder

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Creating your own Assignment
Click on the Create New button to create a new
Writing Prompts
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All the worlds a stage! Shakespeare has been
called the greatest writer of the English
language, but who was Shakespeare? What kind of a
world did he live in? Why is he so great? Watch
the videos attached in this assignment, and in
combination with your research, provide an inside
look at Shakespeares life and times, his use of
language, and the nitty-gritty of Elizabethan
drama.

• Enter in your instructions, objectives and
  teacher notes (for your eyes only) and then click
  on the save/continue button

To understand how Shakespeare developed his
writing style
Dont let Billy sit next to Suzy during this
session
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Adding Information to Your Assignment

• Fill out any field marked by a
• Select where you would like to save (bookmark)
  your quiz
• A folder that youve already created (Save to
  Existing Folder)

Shakespeare 2.0
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Adding Information to Your Assignment Continued

• Or create a new folder
• Note that this folder must live in the My Content
  folder or another folder that has already been
  created

Shakespeare 2.0
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Add Material To Your Assignment

• Add Videos, Segments, Images, etc
• Or
• Add Quizzes and/or Writing Prompts

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Add Material To Your Assignment

• Type in a keyword search streaming library or
  My Content then click on the Search button

Shakespeare
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Add Material To Your Assignment

• Click on the link to view
• Place a check mark next to anything that you
  would like to add
• Click on the Add button

Shakespeare
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Add Quiz or Writing Prompt To Your Assignment

• Type a keyword and search for a quiz or writing
  prompt
• Place a check mark next to anything that you
  would like to add
• Click on the Save button

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Add Material To Your Assignment

• Add a links to other websites

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• Add in your links, give them some description and
  click on the Add a Web Link button

Discovery Interactive Atlas
Launch the Atlas and explore four countries that
Shakespeare Mentions in his plays
streaming.discoveryeducation.com/hotbox/atlas/inde
x.cfm
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Add Material Instructions (optional)

• For each asset that you choose (videos, websites,
  etc) you can add individual instruction.
• Click on the Continue button

Watch the video and come to class with a report
Listen to the Gcast quote from Shakespeare's
Julius Caesar. Name three more of his tragedies
and get a bonus if you can add a quote. Get even
more extra credit by staging a 2 minute play!
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Assignment Builder
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Assigning Your Assignment
Provide your students the link above. The link
can be embedded on blackboard and moodle pages,
websites, blogs, wikkis and more
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Other widgets to explore and add

• www.blabberize.com Make your Pictures Talk and
  tell a digital story

www.animoto.com Turn your images into a music
video!
www.flickr.com go on a photo safari
www.swivel.com insert graphs into a quiz or
assignment
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Contact Me!

• Matt Monjan
• Matt_monjan_at_discovery.com
• 240-338-9388