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.