EDUC-1117+2013+W1+(FT)

EDUC-1117 2013W1 Introduction to Technology in Education

Course Outline

Learning Outcomes Resource

Symbaloo -
Assigned: January 2, 2013 DUE: Continuous to end of course - March 20, 2013 Create and develop throughout the course.

Learning Journal Doc -
Assigned: January 2, 2013 DUE: Continuous to end of course - March 20, 2013 Requirement to add a minimum of two resources/ideas per class (2 marks each class)

Wiki -
Assigned: January 9, 2013 DUE: Continuous to end of course - March 20, 2013 Create and maintain as assigned throughout the course.

Blog -
Assigned: January 7, 2013 DUE: Continuous to end of course - March 20, 2013 Create and maintain as assigned throughout the course.

Edutopia Video Analysis - Technology in Education - research and blog Assigned: January 14, 2013 DUE: January 21, 2013
 * 1) Search the videos on the [|__Edutopia site__]
 * 2) Browse videos by topic, Technology Integration at the High/9-12 Grade Level
 * 3) Watch one of the videos from this category. Be sure to scroll through several pages of videos to acquaint yourself with the topics available before choosing your video to watch.
 * 4) Create a new Blog Post. Include an appropriate post title.
 * 5) Summarize the video (approx. 100 - words). State your ideas as to the value of the technique in this video, i.e., is this useful for any curriculum or is it specific, how can it be adapted, etc. Clearly state the name of the video and copy the URL from the video web page and include it in the post as a contextual link.

Google Form
Assigned: January 14, 2013 DUE: January 23, 2013

Create a Google Form which is an assignment or test that you could use in your practicum and continued teaching. Share the spreadsheet/form with me--not just the fillable form.
 * Include at least one question of each type
 * Your form must include a minimum of 10 questions
 * Apply a suitable theme
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Include the form on a new page in your wiki
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Share the form spreadsheet with me

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Prezi Assignment
Assigned: January 21, 2013 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DUE: Feb. 4 - to be shared on Feb. 6th in class

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a Prezi for a lesson that you have taught or will teach Upload this presentation to your wiki (Embed) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Minimums:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Template (not the blank one)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Title
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Text boxes to present topics, etc.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4 images
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2 videos - one linked to the Internet; one downloaded for offline presentation
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6 Frames
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">path appropriate for presentation

===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Web 2.0 exploration - groups of two - in-class group assignment === <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assigned: January 23, 2013 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DUE: January 23, 2013
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sign up for an account
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learn about the tool--discuss with your partner how you will proceed to learn this
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do these tools work? Show us. How are they useful in your teaching. Tell us.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Popplet - Bonnie, Jim
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Flipsnack with RSS - Jean, Rice
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Voicethread - James, Iryna
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Trello - Ron, Naomi

**Blog Comment - in-class activity**
Assigned: January 28, 2013 DUE: January 28, 2013

Comment on one of your peer's blogs - the person to your right
Moderate the comment posted to your blog.

**Google+ - in-class activity**
Create a Circle in Google+. Add all members of this class to your Circle - Technology in Education.
 * Assigned: January 28, 2013**
 * DUE: January 28, 2013**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assigned: January 30. 2013 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Due: February 11, 2013
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Photography Assignment **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take two pictures that illustrate each of the following techniques--so that’s two pictures for each! Strong Hint: your pictures could be taken of content that you could use in teaching! - but don’t have to be. Create a new Album in Google+ named EDUC-1117 Photograph. Upload ONLY two pictures for each technique--don’t include all pictures if you took more than two! Share the album with me. Create an Animoto video to include your pictures. Choose a theme and add music to your video. Include text for each picture to identify the image (where was it taken or what is it or what is the technique used). Embed the Animoto in your wiki.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rule of Thirds
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Framing
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lines
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Perspective
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Balance
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Patterns
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reflections
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Angle of View

Assigned: February 4, 2013 DUE: February 6, 2013 Research/find a blog post or other web resource that is useful for you as an educator in your vocational area. Read the resource, create a new blog post on your blog and summarize/evaluate/express your opinion about the resource and its value for you. Link the source contextually.
 * Blog Post about Resources for Education - in-class activity**

Assigned: February 4, 2013 DUE: February 6, 2013 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a presentation, share it with the other members of your group, also share with me. This need not be related to your trade.
 * Google Presentations--Groups of 2 or 3**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Get together to decide what goes into your presentation and who does what, decide on a theme.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presentation must include: Title slide, Outline slide, three slides created by each group member and a Summary slide with links to content slides. Include images, videos, text, other objects as needed to enhance your presentation. You may include a space/slide for questions/comments by the group members for collaboration.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Project/Assignment - Practice using Google Presentations for your teaching


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a Google Presentation as a tool to teach a topic in your skill area.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The slideshow must include a title slide, an outline, five topic slides (minimum) and a summary slide (similar to the outline slide but linked to the topic slide).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You will be required to include an Animoto video that you will need to make relating to your topic (this can be the video that you are making for your Photography assignment). Link the URL contextually to this video on one of your slides.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Include a short YouTube video about your topic.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You will be sharing your slideshow with everyone in the class and asking them to contribute something -- this will depend on your topic and approach as to what you want the students to contribute, e.g., pictures, links, etc.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You will be presenting this slideshow to the class on Wednesday, February 27th - maximum 15-minute presentation.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You will have the remainder of today’s class to work on this project
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LINK THIS PRESENTATION TO YOUR WIKI--Technology in Education page is good.

Teaching with Technology
Embed the Prezi in your wiki.
 * Review your curriculum. Choose three lessons where you will infuse technology--either teaching with it or having students use it.
 * Create a Prezi to present the:
 * outcome for each of these three lessons (one per lesson) -
 * remember that outcomes have three parts: measurable verb, criteria, standard
 * the technology you will use
 * how will the technology improve the learning? how do you know that the learning will be improved?
 * Do not attempt to teach us how to use the technology! Do not read your presentation--tell us about it! **

Part 1 - Jokecast
Create a podcast in Audacity with the following details -
 * Music intro, faded out
 * Joke - your voice- audio - recorded
 * Laughter/cheering, faded out
 * Music conclusion, faded in and out
 * Save the file as an Audacity Project (File>Save Project As)
 * Export the file as an MP3 (File>Export>MP3 Files) You will need to download the LAME add-in
 * Upload the MP3 file to SoundCloud
 * Create a widget on your wiki from SoundCloud code

Part 2 - Tutorial for your Curriculum Podcast
Create a podcast in Audacity with the following details -
 * Music, sound effects as desired to make the podcast appealing
 * Recorded audio to provide a short tutorial, explanation, introduction, or other
 * The entire podcast should be approximately 2 minutes in length
 * Save the file as an Audacity Project (File>Save Project As)
 * Export the file as an MP3 (File>Export>MP3 Files) You will need to download the LAME add-in
 * Upload the MP3 file to SoundCloud--SoundCloud is not needed if the file is under 20MB which an MP3 should be)
 * Create a widget on your wiki from SoundCloud code

Video/Document Camera Demonstration -

 * Create a video and audio demonstration using a video recording device, e.g., iPad, video camera, cell phone, ladybug, whatever
 * Save. Upload to YouTube, set Privacy Settings to Unlisted.
 * Share - **EMBED, to your wiki.**
 * 2 to 5 minutes
 * Topic - must relate to your curriculum

Ron & James - ToodleDo Naomi - Afelo Iryna & Rice - Shutterfly Bonnie & Jim - Jing Jean - Evernote

Reflections