Wondering

= Preparing To Uncover The Topic =

Harvey and Daniels (2009) refer to the wondering and asking of questions as immersing. In this stage, curiousity is invited. Students build background, find topics, and revel in wonder. Tools to encourage the "immerse stage":
 * What are the things we wonder about and want to know more about?
 * What questions do we have about the deeper mysteries or aspects of life?

Visualizing And Clustering
Visual and clustering engines can compensate for learners’ limited vocabularies and subject context.
 * [|Google WonderWheel] - simplifying and arranging search results
 * [|VisualThesaurus] - discover the connections between words in a visually
 * [|Using Words as a Way of getting into //Rick Riordan's Lightning Thief//]
 * [|EyePlorer]

Tracking Your Thinking

 * Evernote - Save your ideas, things you see, and things you like. Then find them all on any computer or device you use. For free.
 * [|WallWisher] – An online notice board. It invites social negotiation of thought as students can post questions and contribute to other queries. A teacher-librarian is beginning to use Wallwisher with her students to [|share their favourite books.]
 * [|Wallwisher Tool in Science Classes]

Learning From Others
Student access experts, authors, and other learning leaders other than the ones in their classroom
 * Skype
 * //Around the World with 80 Schools//
 * [|Skype an Author Network]
 * LearnCentral - Sponsored by Elluminate, it combines asynchronous social networking and the ability to store and organize resources with the live, online meeting. It's free!