Wrobel



**Ipad Evaluation- Annika Wrobel ** **1. ****It was a neat piece of technology. I liked the applications and the various instructional strategies that could be used. ** **2. ****I would use the CIA Factbook Application for students to complete their World Traveler Project. Also, they could use the globe application to complete the map placement portion of the activity. ** **3. ****A FEW DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ON ANTARCTICA ** If it's a "tour" of Antarctica you're looking for, check out some of the other available sites while you're strapped into your chair at the computer. I recommend that you check out A Tourist Expedition to Antarctica. Travel on the Grand Antarctic Circumnavigation cruise aboard the //MV Marco Polo//. Read the journal entries written by "tourist" Lee Liming. On the trip, Liming was accompanied by a number of famous Antarctic explorers, including Sir Edmund Hillary and Sir Vivian Fuchs, as well as family members of the original South Pole explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen and experts on Antarctic biology and geology. Be sure to see Liming's chronological listing of journal entries and photos of places visited. Among the other Antarctic tours you can take on the Internet are these: · Rob Holmes has been to Antarctica three times. You can read his journals //[archived copy]// from those three trips on his Web page, The Ice. Don't miss a special page with Holmes's answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Working In Antarctica //[archived copy].// Holmes works at the Antarctic Automatic Weather Station at the University of Wisconsin. · Be sure to check out Diana Steele's Journal //[archived copy].// Steele, a journalist from the University of Chicago, made the trek in 1995. · Middle and high school students might also be interested in looking over Christina Gray's Antarctic Log. Gray, a high school freshman in 1995, wrote this log to document her "Virtual Antarctica" trip. · Matthew Lazzara, a meteorologist at the Antarctic Meteorological Rsearch Center, kept an Antarctic Journal while on a repair mission there in 2005. · Read tales and adventures from Ross Island, Antarctica, in this Antarctic Journal blog. · Using the application of Google Earth-Students can explore Antarctica.

** 4. ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Applications: ** · ** World Fact Book App ** · ** Globe App ** · ** This Day in History App ** · ** Google Earth ** · ** Word Press ** ** 5. **** It could be a good investment if the technology is going to be used. We have a lot of technology so it may just be overkill. I like it though. ** ** __________________________________________________________________________________________ **

Skype Activity 1. Using Skype would allow the students to have access to a variety of educators all over the globe as well as educational insight. 2. I would see the connection would be a problem. This could get annoying for some of the students. I am not sure how this could be avoided. 3. For my Skype activity, I would like to be connected to an educator from each continent to provide insight for my World Traveler activity. They could be a continent expert and the students could just have a Q/A session. This would build their cultural awareness as well as knowledge. 4. I think our experience was positive. It is always nice to talk to an expert. It also built our technology awareness. 5. Administrators would have to make sure this technology is getting used for educational purposes.