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Session 1    May14  Introductions

Assignment due:   WebLog 1: Introductory Survey

 

Activity: Introductions

Discussion: On-line course syllabus

Videos for Thought:  

• A Vision of K-12 Students Today
• An Introduction to Technology Integration 
• Think Different 

 

 Producing:  

• WebLog 101 & The course Blog Place The Blog Place
• How to embed a video (What’s your favorite song these days)?
• Digital Video 101 (Where and How)
• Uploading a video to YouTube
• Chopping video with TubeChop.com
• Where to get a video cam: Center for Digital Media at John Carroll University 

 

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Session 2    May16  Introduction to Classroom Website Project 1: 

 

Reading: 

Koehler, M. amd Mishra, P. (2008) Introducing TPCK. Handbook of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) for educators. Edited by AACTE Committee on Innovation and Technology. New York : Published by Routledge for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. pp. 3-29

 

Announcements:

• JCU Center for Digital Media Equipment Available to Borrow

This equipment is available to JCU Students, Faculty and Staff. All loans are for 2 days and items will be checked out through the Grasselli Library system. Equipment can be renewed for an additional two days if there are no pending requests for that item.

 

Questions: about the course, course website/syllabus, etc.?

• Course Calendar
• Assignments
  

 

Discussion:  Blog 1

a. Who are you?

b. Taking intellectual and creative risks

c.  Important Technology

d. Questions for me

 

Workshop:  Web 2 Classroom Web Site : For this assignment, research, design, build and publish a web 2.0 web site for your class. (hyperlinks, new pages, passwords and sharing projects)   

• Wix

• Weebly

• PBWorks

• Cool Tools for Schools 

 

Resources:  WEB 2.0 Application Directories

• Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 sites directory
• Web 2.0 Directory | Web 2.0 Applications | Listio for Web 2.0
• Cool Tools for Schools  
• The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You | Edudemic
• Effective Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom
• 4Teachers Family of Tools

 

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Session 3   May 17  Classroom Website Project2 

Reading:  The Classroom Web Page: A Must-Have in 2008 from Edutopia

 

Announcements:  Let's discuss privacy issues, Blogs and Wikis

 

Viewing: It's a Crisis of Presence...REALLY

 

Workshop:  Web 2 Classroom Web Site

 

Resources:  WEB 2.0 Application Directories

• Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 sites directory
• Web 2.0 Directory | Web 2.0 Applications | Listio for Web 2.0
• Cool Tools for Schools   
• The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You | Edudemic
• Effective Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom
• 4Teachers Family of Tools
• Engrade 

 

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Session 4    May 21  Classroom Website Project 3/ Project Tomorrow 1  

Assignment due:  WebLog3

 

Readings: 

1. Jenkins, H. (2006) Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: pp 1-19.
2. Inside the Revolution  From:  FRONTLINE: growing up online | PBS

 

Announce:   

• Sign up for course grade book and get your grades now!  Your code looks like: dshutkin-T00/Boo_number-codexxxx
•  A note about late assignments. 
  

 

Workshops:

1. Website 2.0
2. Digital Storytelling:

• Multimodal Tools
• Digital Storytelling

 

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Session 5    May 23    Classroom Website Project 4 / Project Tomorrow 2  

Reading:  Jenkins, H. (2006) Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: pp. 19-62. 

 

Discussion Three: Growing up online

 

Discussion Two: You have been assigned one of eleven new media skills from Jenkins (2006) that relate participatory culture to education. Please design an educational event about your skill. Your event is to:

• integrate as many of the eleven skills as is reasonably possible;

• integrate at least two websites;

• be no longer than three minutes. 

 

Discussion one: Webliography for your classroom website  (And where/how to find them):

• Current event video clip;
• Virtual field trip;
• Online simulation or other interactive learning experience;
• Original source materials such as documents, letters, diaries, photographs, etc.;
• Informational. 

Workshop: Digital Storytelling and/or website project 

 

 Assignments due: 

1. WebLog4
2. Viewing at home and discussing together in class: Who are your students?  What do you know about their literate lives online? Let's view FRONTLINE: growing up online | PBS

Look inside the lives of the most Internet-savvy generation ever with this PBS "Frontline" program that investigates teens and their cyber-existences.

 

Watch Growing Up Online on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

 

 

 

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Session 6    May 24  Classroom Website Project 5/ Project Tomorrow3 

Assignment due (11:59:59): Web 2 Classroom Web Site   

 

Gallery Time

Discussion:  Project Tomorrow Proposal

Lecture:  An Introduction to Digital Storytelling

Open Workshop 

Readings:

1. Prensky, M. (2008) Young Minds, Fast Times: The Twenty-First-Century Digital Learner. Edutopia magazine.June, 2008.
2. Prensky, M. (2008) Turning On the Lights. Educational Leadership. 65 (6) 40-45

 

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May 28:  No Class Memorial Day

 

 

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Session 7   May 30 Project Tomorrow 4 

 

Assignment due: Project Tomorrow Proposal

 

Reading:  

• Digital Storytelling : focus on picking the right media to tell your story.  There are several useful web sites to consider.
• The Multimedia Storyboard
• Creating Our Future: Students Speak Up about their Vision for 21st Century Learning.  Speak Up 2009.  National Findings.  K-12 Students & Parents.  March 2010. (Retrieved: 3 June 2010).

 

Workshop:  Project Tomorrow

 

Video:   Video to Amplify Not Echo text stories

Caleb Silver, executive producer for video at CNNMoney.com explains that news videos created for an online publication should "amplify not echo" text stories .

 

Discussion:   

1. Picking the right media to tell your story.
2. The Multimedia Storyboard  By Jane Stevens

A storyboard is a sketch of how to organize a story and a list of its contents. It may help you:

• Define the parameters of a story within available resources and time
• Organize and focus a story
• Figure out what medium to use for each part of the story

 

"A storyboard doesn't have to be high art - it's just a sketch.

And it isn't written in stone - it's just a guide. You may very

well change things after you go into the field... " 

 

 

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Session 8   May 31  Project Tomorrow5 / Drill & Practice1

Reading:    Alvermann, D. E. (2008). Why Bother Theorizing Adolescents' Online Literacies for Classroom Practice and Research? Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 52(1), 8-19.

 

Discussion:   Project Tomorrow Proposals

 

Workshop:     

• FunBrain.com Math Baseball
• Project Tomorrow : (Working with the media you have selected for your digital story, produce a brief ds about...) 
• Storyboarding....

 

"A good way to learn storyboarding is to take [a finished project

or digital story] and sketch out a storyboard of all the elements

in it, the multimedia possibilities if it were more than a print

story and how you might break it up into a nonlinear Web

presentation." 

 

 

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Session 9  June 4  Project Tomorrow6 / Drill & Practice2

 

Assignment due: Project Tomorrow StoryBoard
 

Discussion(s)  

• Study Island (please learn as much as you can about this application)
• Storyboard: share your storyboard and what you learned about your digital story while making it. 

 

Workshop:  open lab (be certain that you understand technically and conceptually how to build your digital story)

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Session 10  June 6  Drill & Practice3    

Assignment due: Project Tomorrow

  

Workshop:   Quizlet  is a free flash card, study,  gaming and quiz web 2.0 application with millions of sets of flashcards treating many subjects.  We will use Quizlet to:

• Form a group to create, share or discuss flashcards.
• Edit and improve flashcard sets created by other group members.
• Link to Quizlet 

 

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Session 11  June 7  Drill & Practice4

   

Readings:  Streibel, M. (1991) A Critical Analysis of the Use of Computers in Education. In D. Hylinka and J. Belland (Eds.). Paradigms Regained: The Uses of Illuminative, Semiotic and Post-Modern Criticism as Modes of Inquiry  in Educational Technology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Educational Technology Publications. pp. 289-303. (Section on Drill and Practice)

 

Assignment due: Blog Credit

 Based on your reading, please prepare five (5) questions and answers in each of the following categories for a total of fifteen (15) questions: 

1. True and False
2. Multiple choice
3. Fill in the blank

Discussion:   Quizlet  is a free flash card, study,  gaming and quiz web 2.0 application with millions of sets of flashcards treating many subjects.  We will use Quizlet to:

• Form a group to create, share or discuss flashcards.
• Edit and improve flashcard sets created by other group members.
• Link to Quizlet 

 

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Session 12  June 11   Design Project1 

Assignment due :  Drill & Practice Test (open book)

Readings: 

Harris, J., Mishra, P. and Koehler, M. (2009). Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Learning Activity Types: Curriculum-based Technology Integration Reframed. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 41(4), 393-416.

 

Introduction:  Design Project

Discussion(s)

• Design Project Notes 
  
• Organization 
• Web Resources 
• Design Project
• TPACK 

 

Resources:

• Bibliography:  There are many additional resources available to support your work during this final project.
• TPCK - Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
• Learning Activity Types Wiki!  This website concerns curriculum-based learning activity types for TPACK
• Instructional Planning Activity Types as Vehicles for  Curriculum-Based TPACK Development 

 

View2:  Project Tomorrow   

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Session 13  June 13  Design Project2                

Readings: Zhao, Yong.; Pugh, Kevin.; Sheldon, Stephen. “Conditions for classroom technology innovations.” Teachers College Record, v. 104 issue 3, 2002, p. 482-515.

Discussion(s): 

• Conditions for Classroom Technology Innovations:   > Self Reflection
• Design Project Speed discussions >  Explanation / Clarification / Innovation 
  

 

How Video Games Can Help

FRONTLINE: digital nation: learning: games that teach: video games 101 | PBS

They may be able to teach problem-solving skills better than textbooks. James Paul Gee is a leading proponent of developing video games for education and a professor of literacy studies at Arizona State University. His most recent book is Good Video Games and Good Learning.

 

 

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Session 14  June 14  Design Project3

Discussion: Design Project:

• The Domain of Knowledge
• What you Believe about technology, literacy and education
• Web and/or digital Resources   
• Organization of the learning environment
• The Design Environment
• References

 

Presentations:  Please prepare to discuss your Design Project:  5 minute time limit including Q&A.         

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June 15           

Assignment due:  Design Project 

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