Week 1 - Weekly To Do List

	Discussion
	Textbook Reading Guide
	Activities
	Web Resources

Knock on the classroom door and sign on to WebBoard. You will only have to do this once. For directions, see WebBoard Instructions. Begin with Chapter 2. Ignore references to UIS. You will be on Chemeketa's webboard. Just use your own name. These instructions give you screen shots, so you can see actual webboard examples.

Greeting

Once there, you will notice a list of conferences in the left hand column. One will say Introductions. I will place my informal introduction there.

Notice that the Topic for my Introduction is "Hi from Cathie". Whenever you post in WebBoard, please put your name somewhere in the Topic field. This makes it easier for me to quickly see who has posted.

Just say "hello" and tell us a little about yourself, your hobbies and why you took this class. Since we may not see each other, we need a sense of your "persona" so we can talk freely with each other. Last summer students attached a picture of themselves and their pets! (This is tricky in webboard. Be sure to read directions for attaching a file, both document and picture.)

Each week I will post a discussion question. You may add other questions pertaining to the topic of the week. Bonus points go to the person who starts first.

Be sure to put your name somewhere in the Topic Field!

Directions for having a discussion online

I will post the discussion questions under the message REPLY HERE. If everyone just opens this message and replies, either to the discussion question itself OR to someone else, then we will only have to open ONE message to see what everyone has to say. Yes, it takes a little longer to open, but then you only have to open it once. So please REPLY for discussions.

If you want to add your own discussion question, then you can post. Otherwise, what? You've got it. REPLY.

Here are this week's discussion questions. Start with any questions. Commenting on another student's answer counts as participation. We are going to talk back and forth about the topic. Bonus points go to the one who starts first.

• What technologies have you used as a learner that you like?
• What technologies have you used as a learner that have actually enhanced the learning? How did it do this?
• What technologies have you used as a learner that got in the way of learning? Why?

Just click on Conference to go to the classroom for Week 1 discussion.

Due by Sept. 29.

See TRG, your Textbook Reading Guide, who will tell you what pages to read in your textbook. Only the pages listed will appear in the quiz. Just follow the sneakers.

Watch out! Sometimes he even has hints of what I might ask on a quiz. He is a good guide on what this teacher is looking for. You can also count on tutorials here.

Here's the organizational structure:

Objectives: Each chapter has lots of objectives. TRG will choose just a few of these to focus on. Use these as a guide during your reading to know what is important for this course.

Chapter begins with: Technology Integration Example (TIE). Each example follows the TIP model, demonstrating how the technology integration plan works.

In between: TRG will give you the specific figures and pages to read.

Ends with: an interactive summary. Go to your textbook companion site. Choose your chapter. Click on interactive summary. This way you not only get the chapter summary, but you also can click on the links for further explanation and exploration!

Top 10 - Watch for these as they appear in the chapters. TRG will alert you.

This is our "getting going" week. So we will talk about activities that are due in the long run, so we can plan and get ready for them.

Portfolio Assignment

We are not going to have a fancy portfolio, like the book suggests. It will be your personal Portfolio conference in WebBoard.. It will include your NETS and your Annotated Bibliography.

Building your own NETS!

Your long term Portfolio assignment NETS for teachers (p.27, #7) will allow you to establish personal goals and chart your progress throughout the term.

• Using the NETS standards (inside page opposite title page) as a guideline, create your own checklist by selecting and revising standards, important to you.

  If you don't have your book yet, here is a direct link to the NETS for teachers.

  http://cnets.iste.org/teachers/t_stands.html

• There are 6 general areas. You may choose to work on one or a little on all 6. Caution: there is much too much to do everything, but you will be surprised on how many activities can contribute to these NETS for you.
• The goal is to set target standards which you feel educators, yourself included, should have. You may re-write some of the specific outcomes or create new ones. Once you have chosen what you want to work on this term, then you will get to use these throughout the course to chart your own progress.
• Each week I will ask you to identify what did you learn that applies to these standards. This is an ongoing process and in no way means that you have to achieve the standard, but simply that you are on your way and can track your skills towards this goal. This is how you will build your NETS in your portfolio.
• This week you just need to put together the list of standards that are personalized for you. Here are some samples on how to do this.

Sample:

Before: "Demonstrate a sound understanding of technology operations."

Here's how I analyzed this for myself and rewrote the statement to fit me.

In talking out loud to myself, I said:

I am not sure that "operate" is the word that I want. It's like saying- know how to operate a car. Just because you know how to operate a car, doesn't mean that you take the car out of the driveway. So I think that I will change this. My competency will look like this.

After: " Use the computer to access both offline and online software successfully."

Your job this week is to design your own NETS for teachers.. Post your list of revised, edited or newly created competencies under the NETS topic in your Portfolio Conference . Don't worry about formatting the text for the conference area. Just get the competencies down. We will be able to see everyone's, which may give you ideas on how to adapt yours before it is finalized. You will have time to review and revise this list during the term.

You may type it in your word processor and copy and paste it into a message or you may type directly into the message itself.

This is an ongoing, changeable project. You may find that you took on too much. That's ok, you can delete, change and revise as you go.

During the last week of class you will do a summary of your term-long progress on your NETS.

Annotated Bibliography Due Week 10

Part of your final Portfolio project will be an annotated bibliography. This is a list of web sites, videos, magazines, books which you have found useful and want to keep for future resources.

Annotated means that you write a sentence or two, stating who the audience is and how it might be used instructionally.

This project does not happen overnight. You should keep track of the items and put them in your Annotated Bibliography topic in your Portfolio Conference as you find them.

Web citations should have the complete URL directly to the page that you want. You may want to copy and paste this in. On webboard, links are automatically made for you as long as you start with http://

For bibliographic citation for books and magazines, use Citation Maker, which will make these for you!

http://www.oslis.k12.or.us/elementary/index.php?page=citeSources

During the last week of class, you will pull all the items together into one final Annotated Bibliography.

To get you started on your bibliography, I am going to highlight 3 web sites here.

The first site actually comes weekly in html format, so people can click on the links in their email and go and see them right away. You will have to know whether your email reads links. AOL does not, although if you are a member, you can make links active in the email. Anyway, you can get weekly topical lists of annotated and rated sites. I have used this site with parents who wanted material for pre-schoolers and middle school children who were researching a particular topic.

http://www.surfnetkids.com

Kathy Schrok's Guide for Educators

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

http://www.yahooligans.com

Some of these may end up on your bibliography for future reference. Some you may want to bookmark them for your final project.

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