EDUC-1117+2013W1+ACC

= Assignments EDUC-1117 Winter 1 - 2013 - ALL WORK DUE MONDAY, March 4, 2013 11:59 p.m. =



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Week 1 - January 25 and 26, 2013 (Friday - 5:00 - 10:00 p.m. and Saturday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)

Assignment #1 - Learning Journal Doc
 * Set up a doc, share with me.
 * Organize your doc by date.
 * Keep the doc open during each class to add any notes that you wish. You are expected to make a minimum of six entries per weekend session, e.g., web sites/links that you find useful and interesting for your teaching, or ideas that you want to use.

**Date Assigned: January 25, 2013** **Date Due: March 4, 2013** **Marks**

Assignment #2 - Google Form

**Date Assigned: January 25, 2013** **Date Due: February 8, 2013** **Marks**
 * Create a form with ten questions using all 7 different question types and 3 more questions.
 * This form may be a review, a test, or an assignment for a course that you teach
 * Add a theme
 * Remove the check that includes the form questions in the email
 * Share the spreadsheet with me

Assignment #3 - Create and begin your wiki design
 * Manage Wiki>Settings>Look and Feel - change the theme and colour and the header (using Cooltext) - try this banner/logo/button at home as it did not work for some of you in class
 * Home Page - some content added - headings, outline of wiki content, pictures
 * Two additional pages created

**Date Assigned: January 26, 2013** **Date Due: February 9, 2013** **Marks**

Assignment #4 - Web 2.0 Tools - groups of two Choose a tool from the following list. Each group will explore and learn how to use their chosen tool, how to use it in their classes and then present their findings to the class next class in a 10-minute demonstration. **Date Assigned: January 26, 2013** **Date Due: February 8, 2013** **Marks**
 * **Animoto - Keith E, Amjad **
 * Popplet - Hugh Connie
 * **Flipsnack - Ollie Wes **
 * **Voicethread - Gloria **
 * **Capzles - Grant L Keith C **
 * **Voki **
 * **Trello - Grant J, Tim **
 * **Poll Everywhere - Vance Aaron **
 * **Screenr **

Link for the virtual classroom - []

Assignment #5 - Teaching with Technology - Start thinking about your topics and outcomes for this assignment. 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?

Embed the Prezi in your wiki.


 * Do not attempt to teach us how to use the technology! Do not read your presentation--tell us about it! **

**Date Assigned: January 26, 2013** **Date Due: February 23, 2013** **Marks**

Week 2 -

Assignment #6 - **Equipment - videos/rotate in groups to work on this equipment; work on your Web 2.0 assignment ** [|__Video 1__] , [|__Video 2,__] [|__Elmo__]  [|__Ideas for using a document camera in the classroom__]  [|__SMART software in the classroom__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__SMART Resources__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Sympodium, SmartBoard
 * Create a new page on your wiki named Technology in Education
 * Insert an image of: a ladybug, an elmo
 * List 3 - 4 ideas as to how you could use a document camera in your teaching.

**Date Assigned: February 8, 2013** **Date Due: February 22, 2013** **Marks**

Resource -[| Changing Paradigms] [] []

Assignment #7 - Prezi <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Prezi Assignment - <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: **Date Assigned: February 8, 2013** **Date Due: February 22, 2013** **Marks**
 * <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;">images
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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;">Frames
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">path appropriate for presentation

Assignment #8 - Photography <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Photography Techniques - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take eight pictures that apply to each of the following techniques - one technique for each picture. If your pictures apply more than one technique, that is great, however, focus on one technique per image. Save the pictures to your computer. Rename each picture with the photo technique. Create a Circle in Google+ named //**Intro to Tech Ed**//. Add all students in this class to the circle including me. Create an album in Google+ named //**Photography**// **Techniques**. Share the album with your Circle for this class.
 * 1) Rule of Thirds
 * 2) Framing
 * 3) Lines
 * 4) Perspective
 * 5) Balance
 * 6) Patterns
 * 7) Reflections
 * 8) Angle of View

Resources: Google Images is an excellent resource to view these photography techniques. Type: Rule of Thirds Photography Techniques in your search and do the same for each technique to see great examples. Here are additional resources for your information. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Rule of Thirds__] [|__Perspective__] [|__Balance__] [|__Balance 2__] [|__Photo Techniques__] [|__Photo Composition Rules__] [|__Photography tutorial - Composition__] [|__Photography Composition tips__] [|__Dan Heller photo tips__] [|__Photography Tips__]

**Date Assigned: February 9, 2013** **Date Due: February 22, 2013** **Marks**

Assignment #9 - Animoto Create an Animoto video to include your pictures that you took this morning. 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. **Date Assigned: February 9, 2013** **Date Due: February 2, 2013** **Marks**

Week 3 -

Assignment #10 - Resources [|Video] Symbaloo - [] [] Webquest [|example]using Zunal - [|TubeChop]- allows YouTube videos to be chopped to use only portions of a video as desired Blog Search Search the Internet for a blog or website that serves as a great resource for you. Look for a resource that has an RSS feed and add it to your Symbaloo. Let me know when you have completed this so that I can check off the task for you. **Date Assigned: February 22, 2013** **Date Due: February 23, 2013** **Marks**

Assignment #11 - Podcasting with Audacity

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Copyright free music and sounds: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://allthingsaudio.wikispaces.com/__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://helps.flatclassroomproject.org/Music+resources__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a short Joke Podcast <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- complete with music/fades <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Include an audio track with a voice recording of a "good/clean" joke. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Save the file - File>Save Project As <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Export the file as an MP3 file - File>Export>MP3 Files - you will be prompted to download the LAME addin to complete this step. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Upload the MP3 to your wiki Technology in Education page - Upload as a FILE. **Date Assigned: February 22, 2013** **Date Due: March 4, 203** **Marks**

Presentations -

Friday evening - 5:30 - Keith E 7:00 - Amjad M

Saturday morning - 11:00 - Gloria Campbell 11:15 - Keith Campbell

1:15 - Connie Dueck 1:30 - Aaron Harris 1:45 - Hugh Henderson 2:00 - Grant Johnson 2:15 - Grant Lawford

3:00 - Vance Montgomery 3:15 - Tim Nickel 3:30 - Ollie Olson 3:45 - Wes Sowiak

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ALL WORK IS DUE ONE WEEK AFTER THE LAST CLASS