Flat+Stanley


 * Welcome to the EDT6010 Flat Stanley Wiki!**

This is the host site of the **Flat Stanley Collaborative Project** for EDT6010 at Wilmington University for the **Spring 2010 Semester, Block I**. Flat Stanley was able to visit with each student in the class and this site documents his 'adventures' with each student. While Flat Stanley and each student were going on their "adventures," the student was taking pictures and possibly video and audio to document their activities. Those adventures are being shared with everyone at this site.

When the student creates a page on the wiki to share the adventure, the student will click on "New Page" and name the page with first and last name (see example by Sally Benson). Once the page is created, the student will create a wiki page with at least three pictures with a short descriptive writing piece on each picture and an audio recording related to the adventure. Examples of possible page layouts are given on the pages titled "1 - Instructor Example" and "2 - Instructor Example."

Design a wiki page for a Flat Stanley adventure. Pictures of Flat Stanley are required for this wiki page. The pictures were required to be cropped and resized to gain a particular web configuration. To complete this task, we utilized a website called Picnik ([|www.picnik.com]). This enable us to control the sizing of the pitures used on the wiki page and allowed thge students of the class to interact with new technology available to assist them in classroom instruction.
 * Course Assignment **

My personal Flat Stanley wiki pages can be viewed at [|www.wuflatstanley.wikispaces.com] for the classroom access of all students involved, or my personal page at [|www.wuflatstanley.wikispaces.com/james+parsons]

** Skills learned or aquired during this assignment: ** While completing this assignment, some of the technology skills learned or aquired were working with Audacity and making a Flat Stanley Podcast to go along with my Wiki Page. Also involved were the proper procedures for utilizing pictures that will fit webpages and load up at a quicker speed during downloads. We researched how to properly crop pictures to make sure that only what was needed in the photo was present and all other background needless info was omitted.


 * Reflection** - While completing this Flat Stanley project, I found it very interesting in how to go about completing such a project and what it all entails. I had only heard of Flat Stanley one other time and never really knew anything about him. I thought it was fun to take pictures of him on an adventure of something related to what I do as an instructor and turn it into a wiki page for several people to view. Some of the students at school where I had Flat Stanley made into an oversized replica of what he should look like were very interested in him and have gotten on the bandwagon creating his character and now I have Flat Stanley running about the school peeking into all sorts of classrooms trying to learn new things. This was a great assignment and look forward to doing something like this again for another course.