EDAD 536 - Leading with Instructional Technology
Summer 2011

CLASS OVERVIEW

CLASS ONE - Monday, July 11, 2011
Final Project Page Due Thursday

Morning BIG IDEA - Course & Blog Introductions

• Round Robin Introductions and Tech Backgrounds
• Overview of the course - Housekeeping details
• Video: Learning to Change-Changing to Learn
• Beginning Tech Survey using Google Docs
• TED Video: Sir Ken Robinson II - Bring on the Learning Revolution

• EDAD 536 Pre-Assesssment
• Beginning Tech Survey using Google Docs
  • For help, go to: Tech Terms
• Blog account and practice
• Student expectations

Afternoon BIG IDEA - Educational Technology - The Dream/The Reality

• What is Ed Tech and why is it important? - Zucker chapter & Discussion (text protocol)
  • What is the potential for EdTech?
  • What are the biggest disappointments?
  • Is it worth the cost? How do you convince a skeptical community?
• Yong Zhao chapter excerpt: "Preparing for the Virtual World"
• Final Project Think Session:
  • What is the coolest tech integration I saw/read /heard about this year in my school?
• Homework: Blog Reflection on class - One hour exploration for Final Project
  

CLASS TWO - Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Final Project Page Due Thursday

Morning BIG IDEA - Ed Tech Tools

• Blog Reponse
• "Center Court"
• Wordle.net activity
• Definitions: MacOS, MS-DOS, Widget, Windows, Cookies
• Disrupting Class Article & Discussion
• Videos:

• Special Guest: G Doug Bundy - Teacher, Raleigh Hills K-8 and Google Academy Teacher
• Google Apps Help
• Google Docs for Oregon Schools - eSchool News Article Read & Discuss

Afternoon BIG IDEA - More Ed Tech Tools

• Website building--A first swing!
  • Google Sites
  • WikiSpaces
  • Weebly for Educators
• Homework: Blog Reflection on class - One hour exploration for Final Project

CLASS THREE - Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Final Project Page Due Thursday

Morning BIG IDEA - Entertainment Education/Convergent Media

• Blog Respose
• Center Court - What have you seen in your building when EdTech's used effectively?
• Presentation & Web Design
• Guest Speaker: Steve Halliday, Author, Editor, Publisher
  • Mulitimedia Learning Theory
    • Richard Mayer Interview
    • Cognitive Theory and the Design of Multimedia Instruction
    • Avoiding Unproductive Multimedia Instructional Practices
    • Revising Multimedia Learning Principlies
  • Entertainment Education
    • Readings-Entertainment Education/Convergent Media

Afternoon BIG IDEA - How Technology Can Challenge Us to Teach & Learn Differently

Sugata Mitra's presentation at TED Conference:

Here's Sugata Mitra's follow up session at TED this last Fall:

• Follow up article from BBC
• Sugata Mitra's Professional Website

Homework: Blog Reflection on class - One hour exploration for Final Project

Afternoon BIG IDEA - Exploring Web 2.0 & Final Project Work Q/A

Web 1.0 vs 2.0
Weebly vs Google Sites vs. Wiki Spaces
Final Project Q/A and sharing
READING IN CLASS: Chapter 2 from “Don’t Make Me Think”, by Steve Krug

Definitions: QuickTime, Firewall, MacOS, MS-DOS, Broadband, Cookies, Widget, FTP
End of day: Blog reflection on class today
HW: Design a simple and/or silly form/questionnaire on Google Docs and post the link on your blog. Here's mine as a sample. Find someone's questionnaire and take it.

CLASS FOUR - Thursday, July 14, 2011

Morning BIG IDEA - Quality Communication

• Blog Response
• Center Court - First Steps in the Fall
• RSAnimate Talk: Ken Robinson
  • Common Craft - simple visuals to enhance presentations
  • Creative Commons - Share, remix, reuse -- Legally
• Web 1.0 vs 2.0 vs 3.0
  • SimonSolutions Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0
  • EPN - Evolution of Web 3.0
  • Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0
  • Web 2.0 Applications
  • Jakob Nielsen's Top 10 Web Design Mistakes
• Specific Tools:
  • iGoogle & Google Docs
  • NetVibes
  • Edmodo
  • Ning
  • SlideShare
  • Keynote (Apple)
  • PowerPoint (Microsoft)
  • Google Presentations (Google)
• Classroom/School/Distirct Web presence planning
  • Who's in control of content?
  • Who's in control of design, and at which level?
  • Quality control process?
  • Group Activity: Analyze your own and one other district or school web site using this criterion:
    • What's the message being conveyed by its front page layout, content and organization?
    • How easy can the user find information?
    • How do you know what the users of your website want to know or fin?
• School/District blogs
• Quality Presentations:
  • See Garr Reynolds' Site on presentation tips
  • See Jim Knight sample presentation - UK presentation
  • Sample Todd's sample presentation - Betty Flad's Class

Afternoon BIG IDEA - The Power of Video

• Tools: iMovie, Movie Maker, Final Cut
• Definitions: QuickTime, Firewall, MacOS, MS-DOS, Broadband, Cookies, Widget, FTP
• Final Questions?
• Adjourn

CLASS FIVE - Friday, July 15, 2011

BIG IDEA - Tech

• Blog Response
• Center Court - Biggest Question regarding Ed Tech
• Tech Plans - Observations on District or Building Tech Plans-
  • See new BSD Tech Plan 2011-2014 Plan- Discussion
• Tech Standards in Schools: The National Education Technology Standards (NETS)
• Audio/Podcasting Software: GarageBand - Click on "Get to Know GarageBand" - Tutorial from Apple
• Video Production Software: Windows 7 applications, Mac applications
• iTunes U - Academic video content delivery
• TeacherSource - Beaverton's attempt at a collaboration portal
• Open Source Repositories: Curriki.org, ORVSD, Utah Ed Network
• Final Presenations

BIG IDEA - Where do we go from here?

• Obama to push for new ed-tech agency from eClassroom News
• GarageBand - Click on "Get to Know GarageBand" - Tutorial from Apple
• iTunes - Podcasting, iTunes U, more
• Use of Video - Signal To Noise Moving Image Festival
• BSD Vision & TeacherSource

To explore independently:

• Dan Pink's TED Presentation on Motivation
• Google Books Project
• The Digital Divide - Educators Wrestle with Digital Equity Issues - July 2008 eSchoolNews
• ISTE Literature Review
• Starting YouTube videos midway go HERE.

Post Course "Think Sessions" - Follow up and follow through:

• "Making School Real" - October 1898 - Check out this 112 year old article that has an eerily familiar theme!
• Ownership and legality of content
• Google Earth
• Professional organizations
• Wikis
• Skype and other Instant Messaging
• Music/mobile device learning
• Graphics programs (iPhoto, GraphicConverter, Photoshop/Illustrator)

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