Monday, March 24, 2008

Thing 16

I plugged in the date for when this program is due just to check it out and see what there is to offer for this. The U of Mn one was very simple to use and gave good suggestions for older students to keep on track for when a research project is due. I liked the fact that you could change you subject area on both sites. The second example was a lot more detailed and you could even get e-mail reminders. I can see if the deadline is a long way away how an e-mail reminder might be helpful for someone who leaves projects to the last minute. It would be nice is one of these would be a little more custom made so that if a teacher has different due dates for different parts of the project instead of just general guidelines. I liked the suggestions for teachers so that they can help their students focus on getting their question going but not all assignments are about finding a question and researching and that would be a nice feature to be able to tailor the schedule to the assignment given.

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