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For Wednesday

Hi everybody!

READING:
Here is the reading for Wednesday. It's an easy read that provides excellent insight in ways to use technology for higher learning outcomes.

STORYBOARD:
Please, bring your course storyboard. I am going to ask you to explain to the class how your course will be structured. I will collect your storyboard but for the class presentation, I will probably ask you to draw it on the board like I did last week.

AUDACITY:
Here is the handout for the activity we did together last week. Please bring your laptops so that I help you install Audacity and the mp3 encoder on Wednesday.

Thank you!
Edwige

The video I told you about

Interesting....

Next week

Dear all,

I hope you enjoyed the Miro tutorial. Here is a Hot Potatoes tutorial. I will keep on posting mini assignments like this one to help you develop your tech skills. It is very important that you take advantage of these assignments. If you have any problems with this, contact me.

An ongoing assignment for this class is to keep on collecting materials for your course and to make progress building it. We are going to start advertising these courses in 2 to 3 weeks and students will start signing up. We need to pick an offering date for these courses soon.

Here is what we will do on Tuesday:

- Yoshie will give her presentation
- We will discuss the readings for 30 minutes. The reading for tuedsay is Blake chapter 6 (please be prepared to discuss this text)
- You will work on developing your course for the rest of the class

Please bring everything you will need to be able to work on your course: your laptop or your course material on a memory key.

Thank you!!!

Technology assignments and meeting

Hi everybody,

Thank you for your presentations yesterday. It’s good to see that everybody is making progress.

Since you are all at various stages of your projects, I would like to meet with you individually as soon as possible to discuss timeline, course structure, activity, ect. I will be in the office on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday during spring break. And if you are not around during spring break, Wednesday and Thursdays are the best days of the week for me. Please e-mail me your preferred dates and time as soon as possible. Thank you!

Like I said in class, if I were to do it again, I would include a one-hour weekly technology lab in the class. Since we only have 30 minutes, I have decided to create tutorials for each one of the important applications that you need to know how to use.

I will create tutorials for:
• Ning
• Youtube annotations
• Miro
• Jing
• Audacity
• Hot Potatoes
• Blogger.

These technologies work like building blocks, I will try to make the connections obvious.
I hope you will take advantage of these tutorials. Obviously, if you use Ning, you will not need the Blogger one and the other way round. That said, if you are not sure which one you want to use, then I suggest doing both!

I started with Miro and Ning:

The Miro tutorial gives you step-by-step instructions on how to install and use the program and ends with an assignment. Please, do the assignment unless you are already familiar with the application.

The Ning tutorial is the one I put together for the workshop last week. It provides step-by-step instructions on how to build a Ning site so the assignment is built-in. I might provide other Ning mini tutorials for more specific tasks inside Ning.

If you get stuck, e-mail ASAP to let me know. I wouldn’t mind getting feedback on these tutorials. Please, do not hesitate to seek help if you need it!

I will post the reading for the week after spring break and additional tutorials in a few days.

Have a great spring break!
Edwige.

To do for March 18th

Hi everybody!

Here is what you need to do for march 18th. You have two weeks to prepare a 10 minute presentation on the five items below. I would suggest getting started early as this will take some time and some research.

1. Summary of course structure: 2 or 3 weeks? How much content? etc...
2. Final version of your learning objectives.
3. Choice of platform and why (Ning, blog, website...)
4. First draft of your storyboard (it can be a handwritten plan, or you can use the autoshapes in Word)
5. One CBI based activity (as developed as possible, even if it is all on paper. You should have your text or video clip, pre and post reading/listening question, glossary, background info, etc)

Let me know if you have any questions! I will be in Tempe Wednesday through Sunday but I will check e-mail daily. Thank you!
Edwige.