EDUC 602 Fall, 2008 

Course Schedule

last updated: 10/3/2008

NOTE: This should be seen as a projection and not a promise. I will post schedule changes here.

Date

Activity

Reading & Assignments

Friday September 5th  

 

4:30 - 5:15 
Course Introductions. 
PowerPoint handout is here.

First class notes

5:15-6:15
Discussing the RoLO's

Podcasting The RoLO's

6:00 - 6:30
Break.
 

6:30 - 7:30
Discussion Hour: Blogs and Blogging

Standards:

  • NETS

  • Curriculum

7:30-8:30

Word Clouds
http://wordle.net
Frequency counts in speeches
 

8:30- 9:00
Wrap Up & Preparation for Saturday
 

What you need to read for this class: ROLO's 1, 2, 3, 4

Set up your webspace:
http://www.birdnest.org/

 

 

Homework that is due: None

 

Class work due at various times during the weekend:

  1. Assigned blog posts

  2. Photoshopped image, posted to website

  3. A word cloud based on your curriculum standards (posted as a jpeg to your website)

  4. Digital StoryTelling: PowerPoint, posted to website

  5. Digital StoryTelling: MovieMaker, posted to website

  6. Digital StoryTelling: PhotoStory, posted to website

  7. Website Shell Created

  8. Here is how to post any media to your website: Putting Media Online

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Saturday September 6th 

8:00-9:00
Technical Assistance

9:00 - 10:00 
Visual Literacy.
Photoshop Activity.
 

10:00 - 12:00 
Digital Story Telling

Use this to help you build the PowerPoint.

Use this to help you do it in MovieMaker

Figure out PhotoStory on your own. (Come on, you can do it....)
 

Check out Digital Story Telling as a Comic Book

12:00 - 1:00 
Lunch on your Own

1:00 - 2:00
Intro to Front Page/Expression Web

2:00 - 3:00
Front Page Lab
 

3:00 - 4:00
Scavenger Hunts
 

Assignments for next meeting

Friday September 19th

4:30 - 5:30 
Front Page Lab.

5:30-6:30
Website Evaluation (We are not doing this)

SmartBoard Exercises (we are doing this instead)

SmartBoard video example page

6:30 - 7:00 Break

7:00 -  9:00  
Writing technology activities.
 

Handout on Planning
(See RoLO 5)

Here is the template

Intro to Live Text

 

 

What you need to read for this class: ROLO's 4, 5, 7, 8

 

 

 

Homework that is due:

  1. A web-based scavenger hunt based on curriculum standards

  2. The copyright Scavenger Hunt printed with your answers.

  3. Significant work done on your website

  4. Finish anything left over from last class

 

Class work due at various times during the weekend:

  1. Various blog posts

  2. Website Evaluation

  3. Your Podcast Posted to your website along with a PDF of your Digital StoryTelling PowerPoint

  4. A PowerPoint with Cell Phone Polls embedded (you should be able to figure this out from the poll everywhere website) posted to your website

  5. Polls embedded on your website

  6. An embedded video on your website

  7. Your video done, posted to the website

  8. Test turned in

 

Audacity is FREE!!! Download it and use it at home.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

 

 

Saturday September 20th

8:00 - 9:00. 
Technical Assistance. 

9:00 - 12:00
We do more before noon than most people do all week...

Technology Battle Royale...

  • Cell phones and learning

  • Smartboards

  • Word clouds

  • Podcasting

  • iMovie

 

Overview of iMovie from Berklee College

How to use iMovie by Dr. Marshall Jones

 

Lunch: 12:00-1:00.

1:00 - 2:45
Battle Royale Debrief with iMovie.

RoLO 10: Podcasting

2:45 - 3:00 Break

3:00 - 5:00
RoLO Test


Friday October 3rd

4:30 - 6:00 
Technical Assistance, Front Page Lab, finishing up video (if needed).

6:00 - 9:00
Web 2.0  Project Explained

10.3 The New Web 2.0 Project

Plus time to work on it.

 What you need to read for this class: TBA

 

Homework that is due:

  1. Everything from above that you didn't get finished

  2. Activity Write Up One should have been turned in on LiveText.

 

Class work due at various times during the weekend:

  1. Web 2.0 Review and demo

  2. Turn in your PDF's videos to me, and post them on your website

  3. Website Should be finished (If you are having major problems, see me.)

Saturday October 4th  

8:00 - 9:00 Lab Time

9:00 - 10:00
Discussion Hour

10:00-12:00
Work on project

12:00 -1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 
Work on project

2:00 - 5:00
Research Presentations, Course Evaluations, media festival

Monday, October 13		  

Grading of websites begins. If you need more time, let me know.

 
Thursday

Saturday,
November 1st

No class. Final Paper is due.

 

 

 

Syllabus | Schedule | Assignments | Links

http://coe.winthrop.edu/educ602

Dr. Marshall G. Jones
jonesmg@winthrop.edu