Tue|Thur Calendar

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Week One:Introductions, ePortfolios

Tuesday 29 August | Introductions

Introductions: You & me

Course Introduction

Workshop: Blog Post 1 & WordPress I *Resource & Activity Page

Thursday 31 August | Introductions

Noteworthy: Course Readings: Available online through the library’s electronic reserves.

Introductions: (cont.) You and me & Blog Post 1

Course Introductions (cont.)

Friday 1 September: Assignment Due: BlogPost 1

Week Two: Video Games | Agenda

Tuesday 5 September

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

Thursday 7 September

Noteworthy: Celebrate the Spirit class starts at 2:30 p.m. and ends at 3:20 p.m.

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

Friday 8 SeptemberAssignment Due: WordPress ePortfolio & BlogPost 2

Week Three: Video Games & Mobile Learning | Agenda

Tuesday 12 September

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Exploration Introductions: Mobile Learning (What do you know? What do you want to know? What can you find right now? Let’s have a look around…)

Reading: Linked below, check out Edutopia’s collection of articles on using video games and simulations in the classroom as well as the article from KQED. Select one article to integrate into your video gaming exploration and share with the class.

Thursday 14 September | Mobile Learning

Reading: Authored by Project Tomorrow and Blackboard (2013) Learning in the 21st century: Mobile Devices + Social Media = Personalized Learning.

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Week Four: Mobile Learning | Agenda

Tuesday 19 September

Reading: Martin, F., Pastore, R., & Snider, J. (2012). Developing Mobile Based Instruction. Techtrends: Linking Research & Practice To Improve Learning, 56(5), 46-51.

Thursday 21 September

Rosh Hashanah | Happy New Year 5778 | No Class

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Friday 22 September | Assignment Due: Video Game Exploration

Week Five: Mobile Learning & Digital Storytelling | Agenda

Tuesday 26 September| Introduction to Multimodal Literacy & Digital Storytelling

Reading: Dalton, B. (2013). Multimodal Composition and the Common Core State Standards. Reading Teacher, 66(4), 333-339.

Thursday 28 September | Media Literacy & Multimodal Rhetoric

Reading: Ohler, J. (2013) Chapter 14: Media Grammar for Teachers. Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin. pp. 226-244.

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Friday 29 September | Assignment Due: Mobile Learning (including blog 3)

Week Six: Multimodal Literacy & Digital Storytelling | Agenda

Tuesday 3 October | Multimodal Rhetoric

Reading: Arola, K., Sheppard, J., Ball, C. (2014) Chapter 2: Analyzing Multimodal Projects. In: Writer/Designer : A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects. New York : Bedford/St. Martin’s. pp. 20-39.

Associated with the Arola, Sheppard, & Ball reading, please work through the online tutorial, ix visualizing composition.

Viewing: Center for Digital Storytelling

Thursday 5 October| Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum

Reading: Selected Readings in the Content Areas

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Monday 9 October Assignment Due: BlogPost 4

Week Seven: Multimodal Literacy & Digital Storytelling | Agenda

Tuesday 10 October | Digtal Storytelling Across the Curriculum

Reading: Demarest, A. (2015) Chapter 3: Personal Connections are the foundation of all learning. Place-based Curriculum Design. New York : Routledge.

Discussion 1 (from last week): Selected Readings in the Content Areas

Viewing 1: Center for Digital Storytelling -> with your assigned partner, view one digital story with intention and focus

Discussion 2: Place-based Education & coming up with an idea for your digital story

Thursday 12 October | Digital Storytelling Workshop

Reading: 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.

Fall Break 13 October

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Wednesday 18 October | Assignment Due: Blog Post 5: Reflections about your students

Week Eight: Digital Storytelling | Agenda

Tuesday 17 October | Digital Storytelling Workshop

Contunue discussion of the 7 steps of digital storytelling and the 12″ digital story.

Thursday 19 October | Digital Storytelling Workshop

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Week Nine: Digital Storytelling | Agenda

Tuesday 24 October | Digital Storytelling Storyboards & Workshop

Reading: Lambert, J. (2012) Chapter 7: Approaches to the Scripting Process & Chapter 8: Storyboarding, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. (4th Edition). Routledge : New York, NY. pp. 88-101.

Thursday 26 October | Digital Storytelling Assessment

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

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Week Ten: Digital Storytelling Storyboards & Workshop | Agenda

Tuesday 31 October

Reading: –> please review last section on Audio: Ohler, J. (2013) Chapter 14: Media Grammar for Teachers. Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin. pp. 226-244.

Assignment Due: (for class): Blog Post 6: Digital Storytelling Script & Storyboard

Thursday 2 November

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Week Eleven: Digital Storytelling Assessment & Distributed Cognition | Agenda

Tuesday 7 November

Assignment Due: (in class): Blog Post 7: Digital Storytelling Assessment Rubric

Thursday 9 November Distributed Cognition

Reading: Salomon, G. & Perkins, D. (2005) Do Technologies Make Us Smarter? Intellectual Amplification With, Of and Through Technology

Week Twelve: Distributed Cognition | Agenda

Tuesday 14 November

Noteworthy: Digital Story Gallery

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. (part 1: pp.87-96, end of section 2).

Assignment Due: Digital Storytelling Exploration

Thursday 16 November

Friday 17 November Assignment Due: Blog Post 8: Field Observations A+B

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Tuesday 21 November | No Class, Friday classes meet | Thanksgiving break

Thursday 23 November | No Class, Friday classes meet | Thanksgiving break

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Week Thirteen: Distributed Cognition & TPACK Design | Agenda

Tuesday 28 November

Reading: Mishra, P. & Koehler, J. (2006). Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A Framework for Teacher Knowledge. Teachers College Record, 108(6), 1017-1054. (Please prepare pp. 1017-1031).

Thursday 30 November

Readings:

Mishra, P. & Koehler, J. (2006). Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A Framework for Teacher Knowledge. Teachers College Record, 108(6), 1017-1054. (Please prepare pp. 1017-1031).
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.
The Learning Activity Types Web Site