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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 |
- Blog Post Introduction
- WordPress I & II
- New to WordPress? Here’s support for the new WordPress Block Editor
- Get Your Blog Going: The Movie
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 |
- Assignment Due Monday 8 February | BlogPost Video Gaming Post One
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
- What are we supposed to write about?
- Sign up |Learning Circles for Video Games Exploration
Discussion I | The MindShift Guide to Digital Games & Learning
- Getting in the game
- Research, Gaming, Screen time, etc.
- How to start using games
- Teaching with Games: GLPC Case Study: Lisa
- A few thoughts about Drill & Practice
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
- Reading | Squire, K. (2006). From content to context: Video games as designed experience.
- Video Game | The McDonald’s Video game
- 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 |
- The games we’ve played, the games we are playing…
- Introduction to the Gee reading | a few concepts
- Thoughts about Drill & Practice
- Sign up |Learning Circles for Video Games Exploration
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 |
- Readings for next week | Digital storytelling, selected readings across grades and disciplines
- Special Guest | Jack Whitam
- Bio
- Fable Feast | The Cursed Verse | Original Animated Horror | Creative Producers
Introduction | Digital Storytelling Exploration
Discussion | Multimodal Composition, Digital Storytelling Workshop & TPACK
- Common Core Visual Literacy ELA K-12 Standards
- Imagining the Digital Storytelling Workshop across disciplines and grades
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
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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 |
- Assignment Due 15 March | Blog Post | Digital Storytelling Lesson Description
- Assignment Due in class | Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum
- ED386/ED586 F20 Grade Sheets
- Tenure, Academic Freedom and Shared Governance at John Carroll — concerned students
Viewing | Digital Story by Kala Marshall & Michelle Ritchey
Discussion | BlogPost | Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum
Workshop | WeVideo
Discussions |
- Additional Digital Stories to View | StoryCenter Digital Stories
- Digital Storytelling | Scripting & Storyboarding
- Storyboarding for Digital Storytelling
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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 |
- Learning Circles
- Assignment Due | Blog Post | Digital Storytelling Lesson Description
Viewing and Discuss | How would you assess the following digital stories?
- Cycle of Life – a digital story by Dany Martinez
- An Agricultural Place – a digital story by David Vigil
Discussion | Ohler, J. (2013) Chapter 4: Assessing Digital Stories.
- Why assess?
- Digital Stories
- In the era of accountability & ubiquitous technology
- What to assess — digital story assessment traits
- How to assess — do I need to make a rubric? Can I establish criteria and qualitatively discuss effectiveness?
Workshop |WeVideo
- WeVideo: video production and editing (I DO, YOU DO, WE DO, YOU DO…)
- Basic editing in Timeline Mode
- Multiple tracks -> video
- Video Levels (Dissolve)
- Animation
- Titles
- Audio
- Audio Levels
- 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 |
- Assignment Due today | Digital Storytelling Assessment Instrument
- Assignment Due March 29 | Digital Story
- Digital Storytelling groups — Festival Queue sign up here
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
- Affordances –> Learning how to use a new application such as Mindomo
- Objective affordances in context (all the things that can be done with it)
- Subjective affordances in context (all the things that your student can do with it)
- 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?
- Example Template
- Review Effects –> Salomon & Perkins (2005) Distributed Cognition, EFFECTS OF, EFFECTS WITH & Common Educational Technologies Used in Schools (review)
- Collaborative Groups
- Small Group Concept Mapping
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 |
- Workshop | Finishing and uploading your digital story
- Festival Queue sign up here
- Digital Storytelling Festival
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 |
- Assignment Due Friday 16 April –> Distributed Cognition
- Questions about Mindomo?
Digital Storytelling | Festival (continued)
- A few more digital stories
- Some concluding remarks
Discussions | Distributed Cognition Exploration
- Functions –> (Review) Martin, L. (2012) | Pedagogical Functions of Educational Technologies
- Strategies –> Morgan, M., Brickell, G., Harper, B. (2008). |
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
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? |
- From Interaction Strategies towards TPACK Learning Activity Types (Slides 1-4)
- Interaction Strategies
- Because my students are using (thinking with) a this technology in this specific way, I expect cognitive amplification in these areas: consider, for example, Bloom’s Taxonomy).
TPACK & Learning Activity Types |
- The Learning Activity Types Website
- Interactive [K-6 Literacy] Activity Types taxonomy
- Science Learning Activity Types
- What are Learning Activity Types?
Thinking with your digital Storytelling Lesson Description | Part II –> Brainstorming learning activity types to achieve an objective
TPACK Tele Design |
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:
- Curricular knowledge?
- Pedagogical Knowledge?
- Pedagogical Content Knowledge?
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 |
Activity (continued) | TPACK –> Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Consultation |
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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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