ET630 Agenda Class 2

• What's wrong with this site?
  
• How will your students know?
  
• Announcements and Questions
  • Thanks to everyone for completing the survey
  • Don't forget to add everyone to your blog list on your blog
  • Not everyone has sent the URL for the blog (as of Friday)
    
  • Please use the discussion link in Moodle to comment on my writing (optional)
  • Check out examples of projects from previous semesters
  • Technology Update
  • Anyone having trouble with their G: Drive?
  • Can you access it from home?
  • Good site for review of basic Internet concepts
    
  • Things you already know: http://www.epiphanysolutions.co.uk/article-index/internet-basics-for-www-beginners/
    
  • Questions
• VoiceThread Update
• Everyone must sign up for a vodcast week
  
• Melinda is doing the vodcast this week
• No one is yet signed up for next week (as of Friday)
  
• Thanks for the comments. I hope we'll hear more from Steve about how he uses VoiceThread
  
• A music teacher commented that he could have his students use VoiceThread to critique each other's playing
• This could work well because VoiceThread is not good for a back-and-forth discussion, like in a discussion board, but for one person to put something up and others to make one comment each
• Discussion of Readings
• What's the point of Global Education? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmkvtfEEFT0
  
• Peters, Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2
• "It's safe to say that all students, no matter what their skill levels, intelligences..., or interests, can use these tools to experience global communications and develop meaningful connections with worldwide counterparts" (Peters, 2009, p. 11; emphasis mine). Is this true? What would be required of teachers to make this true?
• "Writing an ePal partner, collaborating on a script to be used in a multimedia presentation, comparing and contrasting pollution levels of major rivers, or taking ocean temperatures at different latitudes are not distractions from the curriculum. these activities can serve as a way to generate higher levels of motivation and interest  in subject areas through stimulating, hands-on involvement" (Peters, 2009, p.14). Is this merely about motivation and interest? What else might be involved?
• "...it kind of created a situation in which the Internet is being used as one big reference tool. If students need to know something, they look it up and go back to work, and it is not seen as a tool for innovation and collaboration and creativity. That concerns me. There is an opportunity that has been lost there" (Carvin, as cited in Peters, 2009, p. 19).
• In groups, think about a way that one pathway might resonate with you and how you might structure an activity that uses that pathway:
• Empathy for Others
• Finding New Ways to Enrich and Engage
• Desire for Social Justice
• "Taking a closer look at what today's subject area standards are requiring of teachers, it is clear that teaching a globally-aware curriculum is not a diversion, but an essentail part of fostering a 21st-century learning environment" (Peters, 2009, p. 36). Can you integrate global perspectives in your curriculum?
  
• Harris, "Why Activity Structures?"
• Introduction to Critical Information Literacy: The Case of "Black Invention Myths"
  • First Impressions
  • The Five W's - http://kathyschrock.net/abceval/5ws.htm
    • Find a partner and try to answer as many of the Five W's as you can with respect to this site. How would a student with the Five W's in hand evaluate this site.
  • Report to the Class
• RSS
• How to subscribe to blogs, podcasts, pages, etc.
• Locate several resources to which you might want to subscribe (at least one related to Educational Technology)
  
• Internet Projects on the World Wide Web
  • Science Resources and Projects
  • The World Weather Watch Project In-Depth
  • A Closer Look at 3 Projects
    • GLOBE Project
    • World Weather Watch Project
    • Signs of Autumn/Signs of Spring
• Time permitting: explore telecollaborative projects that might interest you
  
• Assignments:
  • Take survey by tonight (everyone already has--thank you)
  • Create a blog account and email the address to the class (if you haven't already)
  • Install KompoZer on your computers (it is free)
  • I am using version 0.8b3; be sure you get the English version
    
  • Read Peters, Chapter 3
  • Read Bruce, "Credibility of the Web" (PDF file, Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
  • Read Marcovitz, Critical Information Literacy & Critical Information Literacy and Climate Change available on Moodle
  • Optional: Comment in the discussion area on the two Marcovitz articles
    
  • Read Harris, "Curriculum Based Telecollaboration"
  • Read and comment on Marcovitz articles posted to Moodle (reading is required; commenting is optional)
    

This page was prepared by: David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.

Last updated: January 27, 2012