TECHBRARIAN » 8 http://lahana.edublogs.org Blog Topics for Talented Teens Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:44:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Help Create an Island School Chatbot http://lahana.edublogs.org/2009/06/04/help-create-an-island-school-chatbot/ http://lahana.edublogs.org/2009/06/04/help-create-an-island-school-chatbot/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:56:00 +0000 louielahana http://lahana.edublogs.org/?p=515 picture-1

Virsona is a website that lets you create your own chatbot like Suzette and Spotchy (but more polite).  The chatbot can be based on a historical figure like Harriett Tubman, a fictional character like Harry Potter, or even yourself!  For this assignment you will be helping to teach an Island School chatbot to act like a real middle school student.  I already created a boy middle schooler named Kevin and a girl middle schooler named Janine .  Choose one and help teach it to pass the Turing Test (to sound real).

–> Click HERE for directions

–> Click HERE to login.

username:  techbrarian password: student1

** Reminder: when teaching your chatbot, use appropriate language.

]]> http://lahana.edublogs.org/2009/06/04/help-create-an-island-school-chatbot/feed/ 0 Assignment 11 (6th Graders) Assignment 10 (7th & 8th Graders): Child Farm Workers Part 1 http://lahana.edublogs.org/2008/10/07/assignment-11-6th-graders-assignment-10-7th-8th-graders-child-farm-workers/ http://lahana.edublogs.org/2008/10/07/assignment-11-6th-graders-assignment-10-7th-8th-graders-child-farm-workers/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:34:33 +0000 louielahana http://techbrarian.com/home/?p=340
Write a post from the perspective of the children you learned about today. Keep in mind the following questions:
What is your day like?
What type of work do you do?
How does it make you feel?
How do you do in school?
What do you worry about?
Why do your parents let you work? Can anything be done for them so
that you wouldn’t have to work?
If you could, how would you change your life?
Could others help you? How? Why should they?

Click HERE for an example.

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