Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Sat, Mar 25, 12:42AM PST (-0800 GMT)
First, post a message introducing yourself when you have arrived, let us know your name, school site, grade level, and any other profile information you would like to share. Let us know if you use computers in your classroom, in a library, or in a lab with your students. Do they use the Internet over an Ethernet connection to your district ? Or does the computer dial out over a phone line ? Also, do you have a home computer to join us in the evenings ? And lastly, are your school computers have video capable ? The answers to these technical infrastructure questions will help us work with you to create a Dig that is exciting for your students, and that makes the best use of the technology you have for your classroom.

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Sat, Mar 25, 12:42AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Now we will take you on a brief version of what took place in Session One - the California Artists Internet Dig demonstration. You will select either Discovery 1 or 2 depending on your subject track. In Discovery 3 you will accomplish the link imbedding that was the conclusion of Session One. Then we will move on to the Session Two objectives, concluding with your first trial test of an Internet Dig you have created !

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Sat, Mar 25, 12:42AM PST (-0800 GMT)
******** Dig Development Stage One

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Sat, Mar 25, 12:42AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig Discovery #1 – Study the art work of these Backcountry adventurers and if you are in the Backcountry track, select on work that will be the launch point for an Internet Dig you create for your own students. Select an image that has geologic, flora or fauna components that you can use to spark student investigation………………………..

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Sat, Mar 25, 12:43AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Watkins button Muybridge button Bierstadt button Keith button Hill button Dixon button

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Sat, Mar 25, 12:43AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig Discovery #2 – Study the images in the Channel Islands section and select an artist whose work can be a springboard for your Channel Islands region Internet Dig development. General Arts portal button Painters button

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Sat, Mar 25, 12:43AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig Discovery # 3 – Of all the art you have seen today, choose the one work that will be the springboard for your Dig. When you decide, copy the URL where it is located and then when you come back to post your answer, insert the URL into your answer (make sure to include the full ‘button in front of the web site address). It will turn into the word ‘button’ once it posts, and gives us all a chance to visit your favorite work from right inside your posted answer. This is the beginning of learning to build your own Dig by embedding links inside your posted text.

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Sat, Mar 25, 12:44AM PST (-0800 GMT)
******** DIG DEVELOPMENT Stage Two …… By now you will have selected the artist or writer and a plant and/or animal who will be the subject of your Dig. We are going to introduce you to two additional resources that you can use as reliable sites to send the students to in order to learn more about the topics you are going to focus on. You can also use resources that you are familiar with already. You need to select at least one plant in the image or story / film you selected as the basis for the next step, and select one animal that either you see in the picture or know lives in that landscape. Preferably you will select several of each.

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Sat, Mar 25, 12:44AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig Discovery #4 - First …… Take a look at this wonderful digital library of plants. From the first page you can type in the name of a native plant. Select California as the state, and you will find a library of photographs. When you open each photograph, you will then get the botanical information about that plant. button As you use this resource, decide how you want to present it to the students. You can take them to the same search page and have them locate different resources that they then answer questions about. Or, for younger students, take them right to a specific web page that immediately shows the answers to the questions your formulate.

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Sat, Mar 25, 12:44AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig Discovery #5 …..Now we will use the same digital library, but we will go in under their animal resources. The animal image library is not as large as the plant repository as of yet, but try to locate the animal you have chosen. button

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Sat, Mar 25, 12:44AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig Discovery #6 ….. Next comes understanding the art of the storyteller. In a successful Dig, a story is being told that is revealed through the questions and answers. Put together four Dig Discovery questions that tell a story about the artist’s work you have selected. You can include a question from their biography that the Camp has online, a question related to the work itself, a question about an image in the work, and then a link out to a remote database, for example. These are trial efforts, don’t worry about presenting a finished Dig scenario just yet. Prepare these four questions in a word document, complete wit the full URLs for the links to their answers.

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Sat, Mar 25, 12:45AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig Discovery #7 … From your word document with its four questions, copy and paste each question (with URL) into the posting box in the chat room, one at a time. You will post a total of four times. Be sure to keep your name in the Handle box. As a result you should see your question with the ‘button’ and an active link to the source you selected. If you need to repost a question, that is fine, just keep posting until all four of your questions read correctly and have an active button.

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Sat, Mar 25, 12:45AM PST (-0800 GMT)
****** Now you have accomplished your own first trial Internet Dig ! As you think about this effort in the days to come, try to imagine ways you can shape the story you are telling the students and try out different question presentation styles – from simple direct questions to the comparative analysis questions. Up your number of Dig question to at least 8, maximum 12. You have had a chance to begin practicing the creation of a continuous story that weaves the questions and answers for the Dig into a unified theme. Over the next week, prepare a word document that starts to weave your Internet Dig together. If you use Microsoft Word or another software that allows you to see live links inside the text document, you will be able to test-out the flow of the Dig you are building from inside the word document, with out using the Chat room, but you will need to be online as you do this testing. Next time we meet, be prepared to come into the activity area with a formulated word-version of your Dig handy on your computer. You will then practice copying and pasting that document, complete with its URL links, into the chat room and will test the results.

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Sat, Mar 25, 12:45AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Hint – if you would like to find more resources to compliment your Dig, go to the search engine at www.search.com (write that down if you don’t already use it ) and start bookmarking sites that have resources about your artist and the image you selected. You will be building a library of possible Dig links. To bookmark a link, use your browser arrow key to open your Favorites drop down box, select Add to Favorites, and create a folder called Internet Dig. Then click on Yes or Save to store the link of your discovered site in your private book marks. You have several weeks to sort through these links, so provide yourself with a good handful of options about your selected artist and painted object. As you select them, read through them for possible Dig Discovery clues that will become the basis of the questions you ask your students to answer in your finished Dig. Try to select sites that are at a university, library, large agency, or federal repository as they tend to be the most stable (will be there when it is time to send the students to use them).

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Sat, Mar 25, 12:49AM PST (-0800 GMT)
This is a self-guided activity so jump on in. We will check in regularly to answer any posted questions. Have fun ! You are certainly welcome to work on this anytime dya or night. The activities will be live and online until midnight on March 29th.After that they will be accessible through the Dig Archive online as read-only documents, with live links, but no write ability. Final Digs will be open to the entire Camp teacher group on April 6th.

Lynda: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 1:05PM PST (-0800 GMT)
I'm Lynda Bloomquist. I teach fourth grade at Madison Elementary School in Indio. I have four computers that use an Eternet connection. I can join you in the evenings from home. I have not been able to successfully get a video connection from school.

: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 1:24PM PST (-0800 GMT)
I have the artist Granville Redmond. Painters button

: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 1:24PM PST (-0800 GMT)
I have the artist Granville Redmond.

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I have chosen the artist Granville Redmond. button

George Stock @ James Monroe Elem.: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 2:17PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Hello this is George Stock I teach 4th grade and have 11 pentium class computers all connected in my classroom. I'm back to continue the dig I started last week.

: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 3:20PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Q1 - Thomas Hill was a painter who is often associated with the Yosemite Valley. Visit this site to see some of his work and learn more about the painter. Of the paintings shown, which is your favorite and why did you choose that one? button

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Q2 - Imagine you are in the painting. What tree might you see which is the largest living thing on planet Earth? Go to this site to learn more about it. button

: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 3:21PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Q3 - While you are walking through the beautiful forest, you come across an animal that appears rather clumsy and unafraid. Why might you not want to pet this animal? Go to this site to find out. button

: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 3:21PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Q4 - Wisely resisting the urge to pet the animal you just encountered, you continue your walk and come to a small pond which is fed by a stream. You study the pond and discover it was formed by a cleverly constructed dam. Who built this dam? Go to this site to learn about nature's clever engineer. button

: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 3:22PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Q5 - There is so much to see in this beautiful valley that you decide to limit your study on this hike to groups within the plant kingdom. You decide first to study the genus Juniperus. How many different species of genus Juniperus live in Yosemite and what are their names? Go to this site and find out. button

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Q6 - Where on Planet Earth does this plant live? What elevation does it grow at? What habitat will you find it in? button

: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 3:22PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Q7 - Scientists have a special for classifying plants and animals. Write the complete classification for the western juniper. button

: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 3:23PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Q8 - You notice that while this tree is much smaller than the giant sequoia, there are ways in which the plants are similar. You wonder how they are related. Go to this site and write down the complete classification for the giant sequoia. How are the giant sequoia and the western juniper related? button

: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 3:24PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Q9 - When you were investigating the classification of the western juniper, you discovered that it belongs to the family cupressaceae. You wonder how many relatives the western juniper has living with it in Yosemite. How many members of the family cupressaceae live in Yosemite and what are their names. button

: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 3:25PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Q10 - You have had a wonderful hike and learned much about the plants and animals that live in the Yosemite valley. It has been a fun but tiring day. You hike back to camp for your evening meal and reflect on your discoveries. Which plant was your favorite and why? Write a journal entry.

: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 3:27PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Marcy, Here is my dig. I may get a chance to add to it, but can't be sure. Question, If a typographical error is discovered after the question is posted on the server, is there anyway to correct it? Thanks, George Stock

George Stock @ James Monroe: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 3:37PM PST (-0800 GMT)
I had the wrong URL address for the western juniper classification in my question 7. Here is the correct one Q7 - Scientists have a special system for classifying plants and animals. Write the complete classification for the western juniper. button

George Stock @ James Monroe: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 3:39PM PST (-0800 GMT)
That brings up another question. Is there anyway to correct link URL address once it has been posted? George Stock

George Stock @ James Monroe: . . . . Sun, Mar 26, 3:45PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Marcy, May I assume that the Berkeley plant classification site will have all of the members of a particular genus listed so when I do a search for Juniperus in Yosemite for example I will get all members living within Yosemite? George Stock

L.A.E.: . . . . Mon, Mar 27, 10:36AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Hi is anyone on line?

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Mon, Mar 27, 10:40AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Hello - glad to see teachers are working on their training - this room will be open with this format until Wed the 29th at midnight, then we switch over to students projects for a few days.

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Mon, Mar 27, 10:41AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Lake Arrowhead - can you join us as a class on Friday the 31st for the California Artists and Adventurers Dig ? 9am - noon ?

Marcy, Camp Counselor: . . . . Mon, Mar 27, 10:45AM PST (-0800 GMT)
George - to answer your questions, first, there is not any way to correct an entry once posted (tho I sure would prefer that ) the best you can do is repost with a short intro explaining it is a repost (this is why perfecting it as a document in word works best so you can test links / check for typos in advance and then load it into the chat room). Second, the Berkeley digital library has photos provided by many different people and it is not a complete collection of every plant, it is a collection of pictures and limited by what they have been given. You need to shape your questions based on what you see is there now. Thanks for making such great progress !

fresh: . . . . Tue, Mar 28, 12:35AM PST (-0800 GMT)
hey my name is fresh and i need help name one tree found in catalina island please make sure it is correct

fresh: . . . . Tue, Mar 28, 12:37AM PST (-0800 GMT)
hello please someone answer

fresh: . . . . Tue, Mar 28, 12:37AM PST (-0800 GMT)
im out

: . . . . Tue, Mar 28, 3:46PM PST (-0800 GMT)
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: . . . . Tue, Mar 28, 3:47PM PST (-0800 GMT)
what introduced plants make it hard for the native plants to survive?

steven : . . . . Tue, Mar 28, 4:17PM PST (-0800 GMT)
I am ready to chat