T, W, TR | 2:15-4:45 | Summer , 2009 | CA 401 | Social Learners

Session

Discussion Topic(s)

Individual Activities

Readings

Web Resources & Videos
Session 1
June 2

Introduction to course, course web site and course participants

Accounts

Introduction to Web 2.0: What it is, what it's for and why do you care?

Chapter 1: The Read/Write Web

 

Register for Tmail if you do not already have it.

How forward your Tmail to another account
Tutorial about how to forward your Tmail to another account for those of you that wish to do that.

Apply for Volprint

Apply for a Google Account: This will give you access to all of the Google tools easily. We will use several of their tools.

Google Docs in Plain English (video)

Complete a blurb about yourself on Google docs that will be shared with your professor, copied to the class table for access and assessment

Who are you and what can you do? Complete a profile sheet and turn in to your instructor.

Introductions: Get to know your classmates and professor.

 

Richardson (pp. 1-16)

 

Pay Attention (Teacher Tube)

What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0...The Machine is Using Us

Online UT (Blackboard)

 

Session 2
June 3

Chapter 2: Weblogs Pedagogy and Practice

Chapter 3: Weblogs Getting Started

Create your blog on Blogger. Complete your profile and first entry.

The blog will be used to share your adventures with web 2.0, your research and reflections into using these new tools and your thoughts about using blogs in your classroom or communicate with others.

The profile should have a head shot of yourself and provide information about yourself that you wish to share with your readers.

Adding information to the blog is up to you however minimum requirements are weekly. Your blog should include images. Your blog should include an introduction to readers to at least one more blog that you find interesting.

 

Richardson (pp. 1-41)

Richardson (pp. 43-54)

Blogs in Plain English

Blogger

Blogger Buzz

WordPress.org

WordPress.com

Session 3
June 4

Chapter 4: Wikis Easy collaboration for All

Four research teams will be formed. A wiki community will be created by each team and members will join.

The assignment is to create a wiki about wikis. The project will be shared with the class on Tuesday.

The wiki created can be used as a teaching tool for student or teacher training. The topics covered can vary but some topics to include might be what it is, advantages, disadvantages, ways to use in the classroom, examples of the tool, etc. There should be references (at least 5 other than other than the book) used for your research.

The wiki will consist of a members page where information will be shared about the members and other pages as you wish. An easy way to do this is to create a table and insert the name, email address and a photo.

You will provide a reference page with references presented in APA format.

Richardson (pp.55-69)

Digital Update

Wikis in Plain English

PBWorks for Classrooms

Wikispaces for Educators

WetPaint

 

Session 4
June 9
iGoogle

Wiki research presentations.

http://jstroud4.pbworks.com/

http://group4it.pbworks.com

http://wikiwikiinfo.pbworks.com

http://huhwhatwikis.pbworks.com/

Richardson (pp.)

 

 

iGoogle: A Mini Product Tour (video)

Session 5
June 10

Chapter 5: RSS: The New Killer App for Educators

 

Sign up for Google Reader (an aggregator)

How do you find the RSS feeds? (Sites that sydicate their content)

Subscribe to at least five feeds.........like news, blogs, stocks, and other sites that regularly change their content........that you are interested in.

Discuss your RSS experiences in your Blog including if you think it is a handy tool for school, etc.

 

Richardson (pp.71-83)

What is RSS? (video)

RSS in Plain English (video)

What is RSS? A Primer by Whatis

 

Session 6
June 11

Chapter 6: The Social Web

Social Bookmarking: Sign up for a Diigo a research tool and knowledge sharing tool

  1. Complete your dashboard
  2. Start building bookmards for web 2.0 .....should contain information on blogs, wikis, rss, social bookmarking. Look on preparing site for items that you wish to put at your site, your blog, your wikis, etc.

Why tags are important?

Sign up for a delicious account.

Richardson (pp.85-98)

Diigo Educator Account 101 (slideshow)

Preparing: Chapter 5 The Internet.

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Diigo video (pronounced d-go)

Delicious

Session 7
June 16
Chapter 7: Fun with Flickr / Creating, Publishing and Using Images Online

Complete CIQ

Dr. Tom Turner will tell us a story..........Meet in the TECLab at 2:15. We'll go to the lab area after we meet with Dr. Turner.

Photo Sharing: Sign up for a Flickr account

Collection 1: You will post this collection to confirm your competence in online photosharing. You should determine a topic that you could share with your students using Flickr. You will collect the photos (web) and post them on Flickr with captions explaining what they represent. Insert tags. Appropriate topics could be catagories such as flags, insects, France, or anything that you can determine would be helpful using this tool. Share with your instructor and others as you like. See rubric for assessment procedures.

Introduction to Twitter [video]

Get an account in Twitter. How to use Twitter in the Classroom [video]

TwittyTunes

How to find and share lnks on Twitter

Richardson (pp.99 -107)

 

 

Photosharing in Plain English

Take the Tour in Flickr

A Fair(y) Use Tale :[video]

 

Sign up for Twitter account

Session 8
June 17

Photo editing: How much space have I used?

Photos that are taken at high resolution will eat away the space that you're allowed......on any server. Learn to change resolutions to that needed for electronic docs and calculate space. Collection 2:You will collect the photos (camera) and insert in a slideshow using Google Presentations according to rubric. These will be photos from a digital scavenger hunt. See rubric for assessment procedures.

 

 

Session 9
June 18

 

Chapter 8: Podcasting

One of the World's Greatest Love Stories? Do you know them??

What is Podcasting?

  • Why use Podcasts?
  • What is the difference in audio, enhanced and video podcasts?
  • Who is a podcaster?
  • What is an MP3 Player?

Building an Audio Podcast on the PC (ITC self-paced workshop)

How to work with iTunes U (ITC self-paced workshop)

Creating an audio podcast: You will create an audio podcast that you will post at your blog. This podcast can be anything that would be beneficial for learning in the audio mode. For instance, language students could read a passage in the target language that their students would have to translate OR the reading of a story for little folks OR directions for doing a task OR a piece of poetry. The pocast should last no more than 2-3 minutes. See rubric for assessment procedures.

Richardson (pp. 109-127)

Podcasting in Plain English

Podcast Directory

iTunes

Audacity : free sound editor

Free Play Music : royalty free music

Podsafe Audio

Wikipedia

Session 10
June 23

 

Podcasts: Audio

Finish the audio podcasts started last week. The podcast MUST be at least 1 minute. Saved in MP3 format and presented at your blog. The rubric should be turned in when the podcast is loaded at your blog.

Get your CD from instructor. Has software for loading on PC and some files for practice as well as some music clips.

Publish the podcast in iTunes. Go to UTK on iTunes U.

  • Go to My UTK on iTunes U and login with your userid and password
  • Go to Academic Programs
  • Go to College of Education, Health and Human Science
  • Go to Theory and Practice in Teacher Education
  • Go to Special Topics 00007 (our course)
  • Go to Upload and Manage files
  • Follow the directions to upload your podcast to the Course Content section

 

Laptops and iPods in the classroom (a video)

How to use Podcasting in the classroom

iPod in Education

Listening Centers

How to use iPods in class...a part of Classroom 2.0

Using iPods for individual testing

Session 11
June 24
Podcasts: Enhanced (photos with audio)

Creating an enhanced podcasts: Enhanced podcasts include the use of still photos with audio for each shot explaining what is going on in the photo.

Building an Enhanced Podcast on the PC (ITC self-paced workshop)

Ways to use enhanced podcasts are only limited by the creativity of the teacher. Podtours can be created.......such as tours of art exhibits, tours of the school building, tours of the community, etc. Field trip can be recorded on a Podcast. Visit the zoo, take photos of the animals and write a script that introduces the animals to the audience. Visit the mountains, Iams, the biotanical garden, etc. This could be done for community mapping projects (getting to know the community and have photos of the school, the post office, the court house,etc. as well as step by steps directions. For instance, you want to explain the step by step directions for creating a Google Account. Go to Google and take screenshots of each step. insert the still images in PowerPoint or MovieMaker. Write the script that will be used for each still photo. Record the script. Add the audio to the still shots. Try to keep your photos to 10 or 12.

Publish the podcast in iTunesU. Go to UTK on iTunes U.

  • Go to My UTK on iTunes U and login with your userid and password
  • Go to Academic Programs
  • Go to College of Education, Health and Human Science
  • Go to Theory and Practice in Teacher Education
  • Go to Special Topics 00007 (our course)
  • Go to Upload and Manage files
  • Follow the directions to upload your podcast to the Course Content section.

Podcast Central at Mabry Online in Georgia

 

 

 

Session 12
June 25

Digital Movies

 

What is a Digital Story?

What are the 7 elements of of storytelling?

What software tools are used to make digital stories?

How do I go about making a digital story?

Richardson (pp.)

 

Digital Stories : Niles Township presents a showcase of digital stories told by students, teachers and folks in the community.

Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling : Great site created by the University of Houston.

 

Session 13
June 30

 

Digital Movies Jeff Beard will work with you in this class. I will be at NECC.    
Session 14
July1
Digital Movies

 

   
Session 15
July 2

 

Digital Movies

 

You will share your digital story here. Share the experience!

 

 

 

 

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