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| One January 17 | Two January 24 | Three January 31 | Four February 7 | Five February 14 |
| Six February 21 | Seven February 28 | Eight March 14 | Nine March 21 | Ten March 28 |
| Eleven April 4 | Twelve April 11 | Thirteen April 19 | Fourteen April 25 | Fifteen May 2 |
Week One Monday January 17 | MLK Day, no class
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Week Two Monday January 24 | 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 28 January
Assignment Due | Blog Post Introductions
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Week Three Monday January 31 |Agenda
Reading | The MindShift Guide to Digital Games & Learning
Noteworthy |
- Assignment Due Friday 11 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
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Week Four Monday February 7 | Agenda
Reading: Gee, J.P. (2007) Good video games, the human mind, and good learning. pp. 22-44.
Assignment due Friday February 11 | BlogPost Video Gaming Post One
Noteworthy |
- For Next Week
- Reading | Squire, K. (2006). From content to context: Video games as designed experience.
- Video Game | The McDonald’s Video game
- SP22 ED386/ED586 Intro questions to me
Video Gaming Exploration | Overview
Discussion |
- What are we supposed to write about?
- Sign up | Learning Circles for Video Games Exploration
- Posting Images |
- Mac
- command+ shift+3 = screen capture,
- command+ shift+4 = captures selected quadrilateral.
- Windows | Print Screen + Snipping tool
- Mac
Discussion II | The games we’ve played, the games we are playing…
Viewing I | The MindShift Guide to Digital Games & Learning –> Teaching with Games: GLPC Case Study: Lisa
Introduction to the Gee reading | a few concepts
Viewing II | James Paul Gee on Learning with Video Games
Thoughts about Drill & Practice
Small groups learning experience | Video Games & Learning Principles
Workshop | Video game play
Friday 11 February Assignment due | BlogPost Video Gaming Post One
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Week Five Monday February 14 | Agenda
Reading | Squire, K. (2006). From content to context: Video games as designed experience. Educational researcher, 35(8), 19–29.
Noteworthy | Assignment Due Friday 18 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 | MOST REALISTIC GRAPHICS Games of 2022 & Beyond
Introduction | Digital Storytelling / Multimodal Composition
Viewing | Story Center — What’s Your Story?
Workshop | Video game play
Friday 18 February
Assignment Due | Video Game Exploration
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Week Six Monday February 21 | Agenda
Reading |
- Dalton, B. (2013). Multimodal Composition and the Common Core State Standards.
- Lambert, J. (2018) Chapter 5: Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. (5th Edition). Routledge : New York, NY. pp. 53-70.
Noteworthy | Learning Circles
Readings for next week | Digital storytelling, selected readings across grades and disciplines
Introduction | Digital Storytelling (assignments) Deliverables
Discussion | Multimodal Composition, Digital Storytelling Workshop & TPACK
- Ohio’s Learning Standards for Information and Communications Technology (pp.22-25)
- 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.
Workshop | Making Comics with Pixton
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Week Seven Monday February 28 | Agenda
Reading | Digital Storytelling, Selected Readings in the Content Areas
Noteworthy |
In Class Project (Due in class) | Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum
Assignment Due 14 March | Teachers and Students Using Classroom Technologies (Field Observation)
Viewing | Digital Story by Kala Marshall & Michelle Ritchey
Workshop | Making Comics with Pixton
Workshop I | A few Ideas about Image/text relations
Small Group Activity | BlogPost | Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum
Spring Break Monday 7 March No Class
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Week Eight Monday March 14 | Agenda
Readings |
- Lambert, J. (2018) Chapter 8: Approaches to the Scripting Process
- Lambert, J. (2018) Chapter 10: Storyboarding
Assignment Due | Teachers and Students Using Classroom Technologies (Field Observation)
Assignment Due 18 March | Field Observation II Access to Technology
Viewing |
Discussions |
- Additional Digital Stories to View | StoryCenter Digital Stories
- Digital Storytelling | Scripting & Storyboarding
- Storyboarding for Digital Storytelling
Discussion | Photography Composition Basics
Workshop | WeVideo
Friday 18 March
Assignment Due Friday 18 March | Field Observation II Access to Technology
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Week Nine Monday March 21 | Agenda
Noteworthy | Assessment tool –> what if…?
Readings | Ohler, J. (2013) Chapter 4: Assessing Digital Stories. Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin. pp. 83-91.
Discussion | Field Observation II Access to Technology
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?
Viewing and Discuss | How would you assess the following digital stories?
- Musical Fractions Digital Story | Sofia Ayres-Aronson
- Peruvian Experience | Hannah Ingram’s Digital Story
Workshop | WeVideo
- WeVideo: video production and editing in Timeline Mode
- (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
Introduction, Reading for 28 March | Salomon, G. & Perkins, D. (2005) Do Technologies Make Us Smarter? Intellectual Amplification With, Of and Through Technology.” pp. 71-86.
Workshop | Digital Storytelling Scripting & Storyboarding
Friday 25 March
Assignment Due | Digital Storytelling Script and Digital Storytelling Storyboard
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Week Ten Monday March 28 | Agenda
Reading | Salomon, G. & Perkins, D. (2005) Do Technologies Make Us Smarter? Intellectual Amplification With, Of and Through Technology.” pp. 71-86.
Noteworthy | Digital Storytelling groups — Festival Queue sign up here
- Assignment Due today | Digital Storytelling Assessment Instrument
- Assignment Due April 4 | Digital Story
Workshop I | WeVideo
- Timeline Mode
- Multiple tracks -> video
- Transitions
- Animation
- Titles (rolling credits)
Workshop II | WeVideo
- Recording voice over narration
- Video
- Audio Levels
- Multiple tracks -> audio
- Free Sound from Zapsplat
Introduction | Distributed Cognition –> The objective of this assignment is to create a series of comic strips and blog posts, to study, learn and demonstrate your understanding of distributed cognition and the extended mind.
Discussion | Learning with Things
- Present to hand | Present to mind (or a curious thing about Learning Technical Skills)
- Extending the mind, thinking with a word processor
- The Gear Problem
Discussion | Salomon & Perkins (2005) Distributed Cognition, EFFECTS OF, EFFECTS WITH & Common Educational Technologies Used in Schools
Discussions | Scripts & Storyboards
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Week Eleven Monday April 4 | 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.
Assignment Due | Digital Story
Assignment Due Friday 8 April | Your assessment of your digital story using your DS assessment instrument (submit through email)
Noteworthy | 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) |
Viewing | Google Docs in the Classroom : Grades 9-12 / All Subjects / Collaboration
Discussion | Review Effects –> Salomon & Perkins (2005) Distributed Cognition, EFFECTS OF, EFFECTS WITH & Common Educational Technologies Used in Schools (review)
Discussion |
- Technology Observation Instrument
- Videos Technology Integration
- Distributed cognition & Comic Strip Resources
- Mini Lecture | Martin, L. (2012). The Pedagogical Functions of Educational Technologies
Viewing | Using the Technology Integration Observation Instrument, watch & Analyze this video lesson –> Potential Energy: Problem Solving with Technology : Grades 9-12 / Science / Physics
Discussion | Distributed Cognition Assignment Objectives
Digital Storytelling | Assignment Objectives Review and Clarification
- Workshop | Finishing and uploading your digital story
- Festival Queue sign up here
- Digital Storytelling Festival
Friday 8 April
Assignment Due | Your assessment of your digital story using your DS assessment instrument (submit through email)
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Week Twelve Monday April 11 | 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 |
NOTE the CHANGE >> Assignment Due Tuesday April 19 l –> Distributed Cognition
Discussions | Distributed Cognition Exploration
- Functions –> (Review) Martin, L. (2012) | Pedagogical Functions of Educational Technologies
- Strategies –> Morgan, M., Brickell, G., Harper, B. (2008). |
Viewing | Exploring Immigration: Maps & Migration
Introduction | The TPACK Exploration
Viewing | TPACK in Two Minutes
NOTE the CHANGE >> Easter Break Monday 18 April Class Does Not Meet, Class meets on Tuesday
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Week Thirteen Tuesday April 19 | Agenda
NOTE the CHANGE >> Assignment Due Tuesday April 19 | Distributed Cognition
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 | Previously incomplete assignments are due on the last day of classes, 5 May 2022
NOTE the CHANGE >> Assignment Due Monday 9 May | Final Project –> TPACK Design
Discussions | Thoughts & questions | Distributed Cognition Exploration
Introduction | The TPACK Exploration
Viewing | TPACK in Two Minutes
Discussion | 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
- Interaction Strategies
- Because my students are using (thinking with) 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?
Discussion | Brainstorming learning activity types to achieve an objective
Activity | Think:Pair:Share–> Learning Activity Types, Finding Apps & Thinking more about Affordances with the help of Common Sense Education
TPACK TELE Design |
Reading for next week | Koehler, M. J., & Mishra, P. (2009). What is technological pedagogical content knowledge?
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Week Fourteen Monday April 25 | 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 | Previously incomplete assignments are due on the last day of classes, 5 May 2022. (Blog posts for the Video Gaming project can no longer be accepted).
NOTE the CHANGE >> Assignment Due Monday 9 May | Final Project –> TPACK Design
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
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Week Fifteen Monday May 2 |
Noteworthy | ALL TPACK DESIGN PROJECTS ARE TO BE TURNED IN Through EMAIL OR AS A SHARED GOOGLE DOC. Please DO NOT POST YOUR TPACK PROJECT TO YOUR WebLog!
NOTE the CHANGE >> Assignment Due Monday 9 May | Final Project –> TPACK Design
Discussion | TPACK Tele Design
Activity | TPACK –> Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
May 9 | Final Exam period, class meets 6:00-7:50pm
Discussion | Educational Technology, Retrospective
ALL TPACK DESIGN PROJECTS ARE TO BE TURNED IN Through EMAIL OR AS A SHARED GOOGLE DOC with notification. Please DO NOT POST YOUR TPACK PROJECT TO YOUR WebLog!
Educational Technology in the World | David 
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