Spring 2021 Calendar

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January 18		Two
January 25		Three
February 1		Four
February 8		Five
February 15
Six
February 22		Seven
March 1		Eight
March 8		Nine
March 15		Ten
March 22
Eleven
March 29		Twelve
April 12		Thirteen
April 19		Fourteen
April 26		Fifteen
May 3

Week One Monday January 18 | MLK Day, no class

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Week Two Monday January 25 | Agenda

Introductions

  • You & me
  • Course Introduction

Workshop |

Exploration Introduction | Video game assignment

Friday 29 January

Assignment Due | Blog Post Introductions

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Week Three Monday February 1 |Agenda

Reading | The MindShift Guide to Digital Games & Learning

Noteworthy |

More WordPress |

  • Discussion Settings
  • Blogs I Follow

Introductions | Blog Post Introductions

  • What are you into; what makes you special? Share a few “unique” aspects about yourself that would help our classroom community get to know you a bit. Are you on an athletic team? Sing in the choir?  Are you trying out for a play? Painting? What are you planning on doing this semester in your life that is noteworthy?
  • Asset Learning, not deficit learning… Please share an academic strength or two that you bring to our class learning community.
  • What is your favorite thing to do that makes you the happiest?

Video Game Play I | Some Online Games

Video Gaming Exploration | Overview

Discussion I | The MindShift Guide to Digital Games & Learning

Zoom Recording EdTech 1 February

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Week Four Monday February 8 | Agenda

Reading: Gee, J.P. (2007) Good video games, the human mind, and good learning. pp. 22-44.

Noteworthy |

  • Assignment Due Monday 8 February | BlogPost Video Gaming Post One
  • From Shakespeare to digital storytelling, a special guest on 22 February –> Jack Whitam
  • For Next Week
  • SP21 ED386/ED586 Intro questions to me

Posting Images |

  • Mac
    • command+ shift+3 = screen capture,
    • command+ shift+4 = captures selected quadrilateral.
  • Windows | Print Screen + Snipping tool

Discussion |

Small groups learning experience | Video Games & Learning Principles

Viewing | James Paul Gee on Learning with Video Games

Workshop | Video game play

EdTech Zoom Recording 8 February

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Week Five Monday February 15 | Agenda

Reading | Squire, K. (2006). From content to context: Video games as designed experience. Educational researcher, 35(8), 19–29.

Noteworthy |

  • From Shakespeare to digital storytelling, a special guest on 22 February –> Jack Whitam
  • Assignment Due Friday 19 February |  Video Game Exploration

Video Game play | The McDonald’s Video game 

Discussion | Squire, K. (2006). From content to context: Video games as designed experience. Educational researcher.

Viewing | James Paul Gee on Learning with Video Games

Introduction | Digital Storytelling / Multimodal Composition

Workshop | Video game play

Zoom Recording ED503 15 February

Friday 19 February

Assignment Due |  Video Game Exploration

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Week Six Monday February 22 | Agenda

Reading |  

  • Dalton, B. (2013). Multimodal Composition and the Common Core State Standards.
  • Lambert, J. (2012) Chapter 5: Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. (4th Edition). Routledge : New York, NY. pp. 53-69.

Noteworthy |

Introduction | Digital Storytelling Exploration

Discussion | Multimodal Composition, Digital Storytelling Workshop & TPACK

Mini-Lecture | Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling

Small group activity 

  • Everyone is assigned a step to explore
  • Viewing : Content of Character by Bess Turner | Story Center
  • Read in Lambert 5 about the main ideas of your step (relative to the digital story you just watched):
    • Prepare a talking point or two based on the reading;
    • Identify a brief quote or two from the reading;
    • Relate the talking points and quotes to the digital story you watched;
    • Ask the class about your step and discuss it with us.

Zoom Recording ED503 22 February

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Week Seven Monday March 1 | Agenda

Reading |  Digital Storytelling, Selected Readings in the Content Areas

Noteworthy |

  • Educational Video Gaming Exploration
  • Graduate Assistantship opportunity

Introduction | Blog Post | Digital Storytelling Lesson Description

Viewing | Content of Character by Bess Turner | Story Center

Discussion | Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling

In-class Assignment | Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum

Workshop | Making Comics with Pixton

Zoom Recording ED503 1 March

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Week Eight Monday March 8 | Agenda

Reading | Lambert, J. (2012) Chapter 7: Approaches to the Scripting Process & Chapter 8: Storyboarding

Noteworthy |

Viewing | Digital Story by Kala Marshall & Michelle Ritchey

Discussion |  BlogPost | Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum

Workshop | WeVideo

Discussions |

Zoom Recording EdTech 8 March

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Week Nine Monday March 15 | Agenda

Readings | Ohler, J. (2013) Chapter 4: Assessing Digital Stories. Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin. pp. 83-91.

Noteworthy |

Viewing and Discuss | How would you assess the following digital stories?

Discussion | Ohler, J. (2013) Chapter 4: Assessing Digital Stories.

  1. Why assess?
    • Digital Stories
    • In the era of accountability & ubiquitous technology
  2. What to assess — digital story assessment traits
  3. How to assess — do I need to make a rubric? Can I establish criteria and qualitatively discuss effectiveness?

Workshop |WeVideo

  1. Basic editing in Timeline Mode
  2. Multiple tracks -> video
  3. Video Levels (Dissolve)
  4. Animation
  5. Titles
  6. Audio
  7. Audio Levels
  8. Multiple tracks -> audio

Zoom Recording EdTech 15 March

Friday 19 March

Assignment Due | Digital Storytelling Script  and Digital Storytelling Storyboard

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Week Ten Monday March 22 | Agenda

Reading | Salomon, G. & Perkins, D. (2005) Do Technologies Make Us Smarter? Intellectual Amplification With, Of and Through Technology.” pp. 71-86.

Noteworthy |

Viewing & Discuss How you would assess the following digital story? | An Agricultural Place –  a digital story by David Vigil

Discussions | Script & Storyboard

Workshop | WeVideo (Continued)

  • How to rip a video from youtube?
  • Recording voice over narration
  • Video
  • Audio Levels
  • Multiple tracks -> audio
  • Free Sound from Zapsplat

Introduction | Distributed Cognition

Workshop | 

Discussion | Learning with Things

  1. Affordances –> Learning how to use a new application such as Mindomo
    1. Objective affordances in context (all the things that can be done with it)
    2. Subjective affordances in context (all the things that your student can do with it)
  2. Present to hand | Present to mind (or a curious thing about  Learning Technical Skills)

Discussion | Salomon & Perkins (2005) Distributed Cognition, EFFECTS OF, EFFECTS WITH & Common Educational Technologies Used in Schools

Zoom Recording EdTech 22 March

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Week Eleven Monday March 29 | Agenda

Reading | Martin, L. (2012). Connection, Translation, Off-Loading, and Monitoring: A Framework for Characterizing the Pedagogical Functions of Educational Technologies. Technology, Knowledge & Learning, 17(3), 87-107.

Noteworthy | 

  • Assignment Due | Digital Story
  • Reading for next class (April 12) Morgan, M., Brickell, G., Harper, B. (2008). Applying distributed cognition theory to the redesign of the ‘Copy and Paste’ function in order to promote appropriate learning outcomes.  Computers & Education, 50(1), 125-147. [Focus on pages 125-132]

Learning with Things (Distributed Cognition) |

1. Discussion & Workshop | What’s On Your Mindomo?

2. Discussion | Martin, L. (2012).| The Pedagogical Functions of Educational Technologies

3. Viewing | Using the Technology Integration Observation Instrument, watch & Analyze this video lesson –> Tech-Rich Lesson Plan in Action: Middle School ELA – Verbs

Digital Storytelling |

Zoom Recording EdTech 29 March

Friday 2 April

Assignment Due | Your assessment of your digital story using your DS assessment instrument (submit through email)

Easter Break Monday 5 April No Class

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Week Twelve Monday April 12 | Agenda

Reading | Morgan, M., Brickell, G., Harper, B. (2008). Applying distributed cognition theory to the redesign of the ‘Copy and Paste’ function in order to promote appropriate learning outcomes.  Computers & Education, 50(1), 125-147. [Focus on pages 125-132]

Noteworthy | 

Digital Storytelling | Festival (continued)

  • A few more digital stories
  • Some concluding remarks

Discussions | Distributed Cognition Exploration

Introduction | The TPACK Exploration

Viewing | TPACK in Two Minutes

Zoom Recording EdTech 12 April

Friday April 16

Assignment Due | Distributed Cognition

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Week Thirteen Monday April 19 | Agenda

Reading | Harris, J., Hofer, M. Schmidt, D., Blanchard, M, Young, C., Grandgenett, N. and Van Olphen, M. (2010) “Grounded” Technology Integration: Instructional Planning Using Curriculum-Based Activity Type Taxonomies. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education. 18(4), 573-605.

Noteworthy | 

Discussions |

Thoughts & questions | Distributed Cognition Exploration

Introduction | The TPACK Exploration

Viewing | TPACK in Two Minutes

  1. Introduction
  2. Misconceptions & Difficulties
  3. Digital Resources
  4. Instruction
  5. TPACK Context
  6. References

Thinking with your digital Storytelling Lesson Description | Part I –> Brainstorming learning experiences within a lesson to achieve an objective

Review –> Specific interaction strategies |

  • Copy & Paste
  • Think : Pair : Share
  • Kahoot

But what are the interaction strategies supposed to do? |

TPACK & Learning Activity Types |

Thinking with your digital Storytelling Lesson Description | Part II –> Brainstorming learning activity types to achieve an objective

TPACK Tele Design |

  1. Introduction
  2. Misconceptions & Difficulties
  3. Digital Resources
  4. Instruction
  5. TPACK Context
  6. References

Reading for next week | Koehler, M. J., & Mishra, P. (2009). What is technological pedagogical content knowledge? 

Zoom Recording EdTech 19 April

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Week Fourteen Monday April 26 | Agenda 

Reading | Koehler, M. J., & Mishra, P. (2009). What is technological pedagogical content knowledge? Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 9(1), 60-70.

Noteworthy | Final Exam & Incomplete Assignments (Previously incomplete assignments are due on the last day of classes, 7 May 2021)

Activity | Think:Pair:Share–> Learning Activity Types, Finding Apps & Thinking more about Affordances with the help of Common Sense Education

Discussion | Pedagogical Content Knowledge –> What is:

Discussion | Technological Knowledge? What is:

  • Technological Knowledge?
  • Technological Content Knowledge?
  • Technological Pedagogical Knowledge?

Activity | TPACK –> Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Zoom Recording EdTech April 26

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Week Fifteen Monday May 3 | Agenda

Noteworthy | Final Exam & Incomplete Assignments (Previously incomplete assignments are due on the last day of classes, 7 May 2021)

Discussion | TPACK Tele Design |

  1. Introduction
  2. Misconceptions & Difficulties
  3. Digital Resources*
  4. Instruction*
  5. TPACK Context*
  6. References

Activity (continued) | TPACK –> Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Consultation |

Zoom Recording EdTech 3 May 

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Final Exam Monday 10 May 6:00pm-7:50pm

Educational Technology, Retrospective

  • Assignment Due in class:  TPACK Design
  • ALL TPACK DESIGN PROJECTS ARE TO BE TURNED IN THROUGH EMAIL AS A SHARED GOOGLE DOC.  Please DO NOT POST YOUR TPACK PROJECT TO YOUR WebLog!

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