Homework-+SUMMER

See homework from yesterday for further instructions to finish your journal, wiki entries as well as Podcast project. Last journal entry: Based on the Adoptions of Innovation discussion in class and resources, and reflection on this entire course, **Who are you** with the adoption of innovations, especially when it comes to Educational Technology for your classroom? Please state "WHO" you may be and WHY in your journal on Google Docs**.** Please know, this is vague, but it does help to think about it...FYI: I am NOT an innovator!
 * Thursday, July 15**

We are almost done...hang in there! ** Note: We discovered that you cannot insert a file (like audio file) or respond to a discussion if you are not signed into Wikispaces. If you can't sign in, just Join again.
 * Wednesday, July 14
 * **Finish journal entries & wiki entries as needed by Friday**
 * **Complete Podcast Project PLUS Lesson Plan** By Friday, please save your "movie" file (.wav or .mov) - the one I can play PLUS Lesson Plan to a folder named //yourlastname_podcast// . Then move the entire folder to my Podcast folder on Lucy. (I do not need your project files). If possible, upload podcast to TeacherTube and embed into your wiki page. Please print a copy of your lesson plan for me and hand in to me.

**Cyber-Bullying Reflection & Discussion** Follow directions on this page . Respond to discussion as well as do the reflection .
 * Tuesdy, July 13**

**Interactive Whiteboards** Reflection: What are the uses, misuses, possibilities, and common misconceptions about these tools? After our class discussions and activities, read this article and respond in your journal. 


 * Podcast Start**
 * Pick topic, research, find pictures, sounds, etc.
 * Storyboard and script
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Start putting together on PowerPoint

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//It is usually easier to add sound after these steps are complete. It is also important to create a folder where all of these elements will be stored. You will have time in class on Wednesday to record your audio narration.//

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**WebQuest Project:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By Tuesday, beginning of class, please move your WebQuest Project (with supporting files) PLUS Lesson Plan to a folder named <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//yourlastname_webquest// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Then move the entire folder to my WebQuest folder on Lucy. Please print a copy of your lesson plan for me and hand in to me.
 * Monday, July 12**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6aa84f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Wiki Work:**
 * 1) Embed an RSS feed of your choice into your wiki page.
 * 2) Insert your audio mp3 we created in class. See email for attachment and download. Remember to put it into your wiki page, you will need to click on File, then Upload. (try in class; may need to to try outside of class if “inserting files” does not give you an upload button.)
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Embed a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__YouTube__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> or <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__TeacherTube__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> video to your wiki page that deals with technology integration, Copyright/Fair use or podcasting. (Note: there are a lot of videos out there - browse, but choose a quality video!) Write a brief description under it that tell why you chose this video.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Journal Reflection:** Read the articles shared with you on Podcasting. Please answer the following questions in your journal. (Note - you are not responsible for the “research part” of these articles - read to answer the following questions): <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reflection: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Podcasting Introduction** : <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Review the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__Podcasting Project__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> page and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__Sample Podcasts__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to get an introduction to our last project.
 * What is podcasting (vodcasting) ?
 * Compare/contrast teacher-created podcasts to student created podcasts.
 * What are the steps to produce a podcast?
 * What are the potential benefits of podcasts to the user (listener/viewer)? to the creator?
 * What are some of the pitfalls or criticisms of podcasting?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Complete WebQuest Project** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in chosen medium (minor adjustments can be made on Monday if needed) AND Lesson Plan (use the same plan template as the Spreadsheet). Have ready for peer review on Monday.
 * Thursday, July 8**

Please share the copy of your project rubric with me: pstkth22@gmail.com. **
 * Wednesday, July 7
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**WebQuest Evaluation:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Use the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Project Rubric <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> for WebQuests to evaluate an example WebQuest (Search for examples <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">here <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) Be sure to write the URL address of the WebQuest you evaluate on your rubric (*You may do your evaluation in google docs (digitally) or print out and bring copy to class.)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**WebQuest Review of Resources on Wiki:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">See the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">WebQuest <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> page on the wiki and view videos/PowerPoint and read through resources available as you start to plan your WebQuest.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**WebQuest Project Start:** Begin a DRAFT of your WebQuest. It can be a short or long WebQuest. Write your ideas in a word document or on a piece of paper:
 * Write your **Task** - What will the students have as their end product?
 * Write out the **Process** - What are the steps? Are you going to have roles? Will students work individually or in groups?
 * Copy and paste the websites or resources that the students will use. Try to organize them in groups.
 * Try to include a spreadsheet activity... How could a spreadsheet activity enhance it?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1) **Finish**, as needed, **Spreadsheet assignment**. Be sure to submit Spreadsheet & Lesson Plan to my folder on Lucy by start of class on Wednesday. (Please create a folder in mine called <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//yourlastname_Excel// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to put your files into.) Don't forget: Peer Assessment, Self-Assessment (*don't worry if this is not perfect in the rubric - it is more important that you have gotten feedback from a friend and that you have analyzed your own learning - the google docs rubric does not have to be perfect.) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**2) WebQuest Intro:**
 * Tuesday, July 6**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1) Why is a webquest a good use of technology in the classroom? 2) What are the key elements of a webquest? 3) What are some considerations that you should keep in mind as you build your webquest?
 * Read the 4 articles on webquests (1) - the case for webquest (2) - structure of a webquest (3) and (4) articles about example webquests
 * Reflection:

**3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Professional Learning Networks ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Go on the Tech Integration Blog Tour (see <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">binder <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) and browse some of the information that Instructional Technology bloggers are sharing (I usually just browse the first page of the blog. If there is an article that is of interest to me, I stop and read it closer.). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reflection: Share two interesting thoughts or tech tools that you discovered in this reading.


 * Thursday, July 1**
 * Technology & Learning “Bloom’s” Google Spreadsheet Embed into wiki (Task 4) – DON'T FORGET to finish writing paragraph about it in wiki (*The paragraph is met to explain the graph you created in google docs that shows your Bloom's background. You actually covered it when you talked about in your reflection from Thurs " When you were a student in K-12 or college, which levels of Bloom's Taxonomy did you most frequently address? Why do you think that you addressed that level?")
 * Webinar & Reflection [|Online PD: Teaching, Learning and Leading in a Digital Age] (1 hour)
 * 1) What are three tech tools that you have never heard that you think you would try, just as Meg suggested and why?
 * 2) Describe three ways that you could get more training or ideas online (online Professional Development).
 * 3) What surprised you, excited you or made you wonder?
 * Spreadsheet Project and Lesson Plan (Task 4) Your project and plan should be ready to share with classmates to get feedback. At the end of Tuesday class you may be ready to submit it to my folder in Lucy.


 * Wednesday, June 30**
 * 1) Why Technology? Dewey 3-panel comic (Task 4, 5) **write an explanation beneath the comic explicating the cartoon.** See examples on previous student pages
 * 2) Technology & Learning readings, videos on Bloom’s (Task 1,Task 2, Task 3) – You will be asked to do a reflection after you complete Task 3. (Note: there is a lot of information here)
 * 3) Preparing for Spreadsheet Project/Lesson Planning (review //as needed// Excel tutorials, get spreadsheet ideas, review “Goals & Objectives”) Check out example Projects with Lesson Plans on my Lucy drive (Samples 510 – organized by grade levels)
 * 4) Start Spreadsheet Project and Lesson Plan (bring questions to Thurs class)

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 * Tuesday, June 29**
 * 1) Read Dewey – Ch. 1 (Task 2)
 * 2) Concept Map of Dewey Ch. 1 (Task 3)
 * 3) Finish One-Panel Cartoon started in class (embed in wiki?)
 * 4) Review Sample Spreadsheets & Find Online Spreadsheet resources for teachers – (Task 2, Task 3)

>> Reflection : You will be asked to reflect in different parts of the assignment. Please use bullet points (list) or write a narrative in Google Docs. >> Reflection : You will be asked to reflect in different parts of the assignment. Please use bullet points (list) or write a narrative in Google Docs.
 * Monday, June 28**
 * 1) Complete Task 1 on @Why Technology? You will watch at least 3 movies and comment on a least 2 articles.
 * 1) Join Edutopia
 * 2) Create a Google Docs Account. Edit shared Sign-Up Sheet for Snacks, Technology Share assignment
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Check email (Tuesday before class) to see if you get an email back from me (my email: __ pstkth22@gmail.com __) and respond.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="wiki_link">21st Century Skills - Read articles on 21st Century Skills




 * Reminders about homework:**
 * Reflections are to be recorded in your Journal Document in Google Docs and shared with me. You will create one document and add to it each day - please make sure the most recent reflection is on top with the date and topic that you are responding to.
 * Class Activities using Web 2.0 tools (such as comic, etc.) will be embedded into your Wiki page.
 * Project Files with Lesson Plans, etc. will be saved into my folder on Lucy in the appropriate project file
 * You **will not** be printing out papers for me or emailing attachments.