Michele Koomen, Ph.D

Class #1 (Tu):

Sept. 3

Class:

• Introductions & class expectations
• ePortfolio introduction & site map

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Assignments Due Today:

None

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Homework: Review syllabus and schedule & bring questions to next class

Read over "eportfolio" & bring questions to next class

Class #2 (Tu):

Sept. 10

Class:

• Introduce Google Pages
• Introduce Homepage
• Worktime for Homepage

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Assignments Due Today:

None

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Homework:

• Complete rough draft of Homepage (final draft, online due Class #5: September 19th)

Note: Photos will be taken next class so dress professionally

Class #3 (Th):

Sept. 12

Class:

• Continuous development in technology knowledge; discuss a variety of media and educational technology to enrich learning opportunities: Concept Maps (Inspiration/Kidspiration)
  1. Example of step 1 in Concept Maps, click here
  2. Example of step 2 in Concept Maps, click here
  3. Example of step 3 in Concept Maps, click here
  4. Example of step 4 in Concept Maps, click here
• Professional photos taken
• Introduce Majors Page

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Assignments Due Today:

• Homepage, rough draft

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Homework:

• Majors Page, rough draft (final draft, online due Class #5: September 19th))

Class #4 (Tu):

Sept. 17

Class:

• Editing digital images with Photoshop lesson (see "cheat sheet")
• Professor feedback on Homepage & Majors page during class

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Assignments Due Today:

• Majors page, rough draft (final draft, online due Class #5: September 19th))

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Homework:

• Majors page, final draft, online
• Homepage, final draft, online

Class:

• Smartboard Introduction
• Clickers/SENTIOs
• Discuss Smartboard Activity

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Assignments Due Today:

• Majors page, final draft, online
• Homepage, final draft, online

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Homework:

• Please bring ear buds or headphones that you can plug in to hear the audio portion of the videos.
• SmartBoard Activity: (1) Identify if you would like to work with a partner; (2) Choose your topic for a 15 minute presentation; (3) Watch introductory SmartBoard videos (located in "Assignments" webpage for this course). Scroll down to Smartboard and the links to these videos will be under "What additional resources are available?"

Class:

• Review SmartBoard introductory videos
• Smartboard Overview and practice
• Professional resumé discussion

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Assignments Due Today:

• Please bring ear buds or headphones that you can plug in to hear the audio portion of the videos.
• SmartBoard Activity: (1) Identify if you would like to work with a partner; (2) Choose your topic for a 15 minute presentation; (3) Watch introductory SmartBoard videos (located in "Assignments" webpage for this course. Scroll down to Smartboard and the links to these videos will be under "What additional resources are available?"

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Homework:

• Smartboard activity: Begin to develop a plan for your 15 minute SmartBoard presentation
• Submit: Moodle: Memory Joggers for Experience and NiceNet cover letter draft for interactive feedback

Class # 7

(TH) Sept 26

Class:

• Work time

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Assignments Due Today:

• Smartboard activity: Begin to develop a plan for your 15 minute SmartBoard presentation
• Moodle: Memory Joggers for Experience and NiceNet cover letter draft for interactive feedback

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Homework:

• Resumé, rough draft

No formal Class

Homework:

• Attend one Nobel speaker: Use the Moodle Forum (Nobel) to write a brief reflection about the speaker you observed: include name of speaker, name of the talk, brief summary of the content of the talk and finally discuss how the speaker used technology to enhance or detract from the presentation.

Class: Electronic gradebooks, creating PDFs and SmartBoard sign ups

• Please bring ear buds or headphones that you can plug in to hear the audio portion of the videos.
• Electronic gradebooks using Excel

  • YouTube: Using Excel in making grade books
    

  • Data set for Excel
• Electronic grade books using Easy Grade Pro
  • YouTube: Overview
  • YouTube: Using Easy grade pro (changing class name, adding students & assignments)
  • Data sets to use
    (Week 1)
• Managing technology resourses and self-assessing use of these resources (including collecting and analyzing data, interpreting results, and communicating these findings to improve instructional practice).

• How do these systems of grading get at personalizing instruction to meet the needs of students?

  • Interpreting data
    • What kinds of questions can you ask about this data?
    • What are trends in student scores over time?
    • What are areas of weakness and strength in student scores?
    • How does this data inform instruction?
• Creating PDFs
• SmartBoard Presentation signup

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Assignments Due Today:

• Resumé, rough draft
• Attend one Nobel speaker: Use the Moodle Forum (Nobel) to write a brief reflection about the speaker you observed: include name of speaker, name of the talk, brief summary of the content of the talk and finally discuss how the speaker used technology to enhance or detract from the presentation.
• Feedback to peer on cover letter due (Nice Net).

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Homework:

• Smartboard activity

Class #9 (Tu):

Oct. 8

Class:

• Uploading and hyperlinking documents to a website
• SmartBoard worktime
• Professor feedback on resumé

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Assignments Due Today:

• None

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Homework:

• Resumé, final draft (please bring a hardcopy to next class AND upload/ hyperlink your resumé to your homepage)
• Smartboard activity

Class:

Small groups work

• iMovie basics
  • Create and upload a short video
  • Basic tutorial
• Garage band basics
  • Basic tutorial
• Insert a garage band track into iMovie (part 1)
• Part 2: Adding sounds effects
• Part 3: Building a movie soundtrack
• Part 4: Editing an audio file

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Assignments Due Today:

• Resumé, final draft (please bring a hardcopy to next class AND upload/ hyperlink your resumé to your homepage)

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Homework:

• Smartboard activity
• Make a short video clip (2 minutes of less) to use in editing via iMovie and use Garageband to edit soundtrack (in-class activity and application)

Class:

• Sharing of iMovie/Garageband
• Evaluating lesson plans I: Considering how to effectively use technology (Concept Maps, Garageband, SmartBoard, Clickers/Sentios) (in-class activity and application)

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Assignments Due Today:

• None

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Homework:

• SmartBoard Presentation and paper

Class #12 (Th):

Oct. 17

Class:

• SmartBoard presentation
• Work time

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Assignments Due Today:

• SmartBoard Presentation and paper

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Homework:

• SmartBoard Presentation and reflection paper, due one week after you teach your lesson

Class:

• SmartBoard presentation

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Assignments Due Today:

• SmartBoard Presentation and paper

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Homework:

• SmartBoard Presentation and reflection paper, due one week after you teach your lesson

Class:

• Midsemester evaluations
• SmartBoard Presentation

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Assignments Due Today:

• SmartBoard Presentation and reflection paper, due one week after you teach your lesson

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Homework:

• None

Class:

• Emerging Technologies I: Gaming?

• Introduce Prezi (prezi.com): Demonstration and how to's
• PechaKucha (Designing and tips)
• In small groups you will do either a prezi or a PechaKucha
• During class: For prezi: Create a prezi account and develop a short prezi presentation to be shared in next class (in-class activity and application)
• During class: Create a PechaKucha using PPT presentation to be shared in next class (in-class activity and application)

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Assignments Due Today:

None

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Homework:

• Finish: Create a prezi account and develop a short prezi or PechaKucha presentation to be shared in next class (in-class activity and application)

Class:

• Small group discussions: Share prezi & PechaKucha presentations
• Emerging Technologies II:

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Assignments Due Today:

• Create a prezi account and develop a short prezi presentation to be shared in class

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Homework:

• Twitter, Blogs, Pinterest and Wiki activity (Jigsaw approach) (in-class activity and application)

Class:

• Small group discussions: Twitter, Blog, and Wiki activities
• Supporting diverse learners with technology
  • Resources for diverse learners

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Assignments Due

• Twitter and Blog, and Wiki activity (Jigsaw approach) (in-class activity and application)

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Homework:

• Watch introductory iPad in education video (click here) and Child trying to read a magazine like an iPad (click here)

Class:

• Emerging Technologies III: iPads and iBooks (YouTube Video: Apple Education-Event iBooks); iPad Video from Elementary school ("Using iPads in Elementary School"); iPad from Secondary school ("New School: iPads and iPods in the classroom"); Child trying to read a magazine like an iPad (click here)
• Overview of iPads
  • iPadAppsEducationDepartment

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Assignments Due Today:

• Watch introductory iPad in education video (click here)

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Homework:

• Prepare for discussion on Flipped Classrooms:
  1. Read these three short articles: Article #1, Article #2, Article #3.
  2. Watch these two short YouTube Videos: Video #1, Video #2
  3. Check out this site (click here) for pre-made videos that could be used in flipped classrooms

Class:

• Introduction to Flipped Classrooms (including technology that supports Flipped Classrooms: iPads, YouTube, etc)

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Assignments Due Today:

• Prepare for discussion on Flipped Classrooms:

1. Read these two short articles: Article #1, Article #2, Article #3.
2. Watch these two short YouTube Videos: Video #1, Video #2
3. Check out this site (click here) for pre-made videos that could be used in flipped classrooms

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Homework:

• Review three lesson plans and identify one to evaluate during next class
  • Think about these questions:
    • What might an effective lesson that embeds educational technology look like? 
    • How is technology embedded in ways that are seamless?
    • How does the technology support learning and engagement in the lesson?
    • In what ways does the technology assist students' higher level thinking skills?

Class:

• Evaluating lesson plans II: Considering how to effectively use technology
• Purposeful Technology
• Higher order thinking skills prompts and image (AIMS)
• Small group discussions

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Assignments Due Today:

• Review at least three lesson plans and identify one to evaluate during next class
  • Think about these questions:
    • What might an effective lesson that embeds educational technology look like? 
    • How is technology embedded in ways that are seamless?
    • How does the technology support learning and engagement in the lesson?
    • In what ways does the technology assist students' higher level thinking skills?

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Homework:

• Read Cyberbullying article
• Read Cyber bullying in Anoka-Hennepin Schools
• Read 11 facts about bullying

Class

• Social, Ethical, and Legal issues: Discuss cyberbullying

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Assignments Due Today:

• Read Cyberbullying article
• Read Cyber bullying in Anoka-Hennepin Schools

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Homework:

• Read Article #1 (Growing up Digital, Wired for Distraction in New York Times)
• Read Article #2 (also available on website link; Math that moves: School embrace the iPad in New York Times)
• Read Article #3 (also available on website link; How Apple is changing kids' brains on msn.com)

Class #22 (Tu):

Nov. 26

Class:

• iPads, Part 2
• Pixie
• Create groups for social, ethical, and legal issues discussion (click here for an overview and guiding questions/resources)

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Assignments Due Today:

• Read Article #1 (Growing up Digital, Wired for Distraction in New York Times)
• Read Article #2 (also available on website link; Math that moves: School embrace the iPad in New York Times)
• Read Article #3 (also available on website link; How Apple is changing kids' brains on msn.com)

Class  (Th):

Nov. 28

No class Thursday, November 28. Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

Class:

• Group work to prepare for class discussion: Social, ethical, and legal issues related to technology. (click here for an overview and guiding questions/resources)

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Assignments Due Today:

None

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Homework:

• Finalize Preparation for group presentations/discussions: Social, ethical, and legal issues related to technology (in-class activity and application)

Class:

• Group presentations/discussion: Social, ethical, and legal issues related to technology (in-class activity and application)

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Assignments Due Today:

• Prepare for the group presentations/discussions: Social, ethical, and legal issues related to technology (in-class activity and application)

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Homework:

• None

Class #25 (Tu):

Dec. 10

Class:

• So, what did you learn in ED Tech? In small groups you will develop a short presentation using two or more technologies that we used across the semester. Have some fun, too! (45 minutes to plan and create)
• Introduce Technology Page (final for EDU 241: Educational Technology)

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Assignments Due Today:

• None

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Homework:

• Technology page, final draft (Note: Technology page due at assigned final time for EDU 241: Wednesday, December 18 between by 10am)

Class:

• Worktime: Upload SmartBoard presentation (artifact) and paper (key assessment description and rationale) to TaskStream (Standard 6) OR create a new webpage (if you do not have a TaskStream account)
• End of the year evaluations

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Assignments Due Today:

• None

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Homework:

• Technology page, final draft (Note: Technology page due at assigned final time for EDU 241: Wednesday, December 18 between by 10am)
• Upload SmartBoard presentation (artifact) and paper (key assessment description and rationale) to TaskStream (Standard 6) OR create a new webpage (if you do not have a TaskStream account)