Title: Write to Learn with Journal Zone

Journal Zone is online and collaborative. Journals with a difference! Make students more expert learners through conferencing with others using text, graphics and animation!
Journal Zone supports reflective learning within a social context. This classroom tool integrates three common practices of exemplary teaching – journal writing, collaboration, and cognitive scaffolding. It is an ideal place for students to work together to make sense of curricular or conceptual problems, to struggle with contradictions, and to resolve difficulties. The distinctive tools provided in Journal Zone scaffold individual and group learning by helping students in planning, reflecting and in commenting effectively on the work of others.

Writing across the curriculum:

• improves student writing
• helps students to think more abstractly
• enables students to comprehend and retain information
  reveals the nature of students' conceptual problems

Presenter: Peter Skillen

Title: Students Helping Students Learn Through Journal Zone

If you like journals - you will love Journal Zone! This online journaling environment integrates three common practices of exemplary teaching - journal writing, collaboration, and cognitive scaffolding. Journals help students to plan, monitor and reflect during projects. However, students not only write in their own journals. They help other students do better work by reading and responding to their journals.

Presenter: Peter Skillen

Title: To Question IS the Answer: Learning, Technology and Standards

Just how powerful is the role of one's own question in learning? Passion-the emotional force of a driving question-raises's one's motivation, increases energy and focus, carries one through uncertainty and difficulty, and heightens one's own expectations. Use outliners, idea processors, and collaborative communications software to teach and support students to formulate and resolve 'driving questions'.

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