Activity 3- Advanced Techniques

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see how to create something like this!!!!

Thank you for the break down of the advanced searching tech sheet. As I stated in the last post, I am very interested in advancing student knowledge when searching. My gut reaction tells me that this is over the head of middle level students on a daily basis but I say this as a teacher that instructs quick and fast.  Based on current baseline knowledge students have entering middle school, I could see these techniques used as a challenge at the end of a "Search" Activity to help differentiate to all learners but not all could grasp the layered thinking required to use these tools daily in the middle level.

If these strategies were introduced at an early stage and reinforced as students rotated through grades, this would really benefit both students and teachers when researching units of study.

One aspect that I will be integrating into my units in all grades....
Advanced Search...Rights Usage...and File Type.

I know that this blog is public and I know my rights, so I will not self incriminate myself. I used Google images a lot! Correctly? Well, I will just say today I know better.

It has been a challenge to apply images to my work for this class knowing what can be used and what can not be used. The image above was created by using multiple "Free to Use, Share, Modify" images in a free program called Gimp. Gimp is a program very similar to Photoshop. Students are asked to use Gimp in the 8th grade before creating a surrealist sculpture. As I type this, I believe 6th graders could benefit from knowing how to create images from free images on the web rather than copying the first thing they see when doing an image search. Students portfolios and e-portfolios would be very strong if they consisted of 100% original images used according the current copy right laws.

All of my rambling, I am excited for adding these advanced skills into my lessons. I said that some of these concepts might be difficult for middle school students to use but hey...you never know until you try!!!