ET630 Agenda Class 1 PM

• What's wrong with this site?
  
• How will your students know?
  
• Announcements and Questions
  • Thanks to everyone for completing the survey
  • Email blog address to class now
    
  • Check out examples of projects from previous semesters
  • 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
• Class Summary Update
• Everyone must sign up for a class summary slot
  
• ??? and ??? are doing the summary for today
• Don't forget you are required to comment on the class summary before next class
  
• 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
• Project Sources
• The Global SchoolNet's Internet Project Registry
• I*EARN Project Database
• ePals
• Time permitting: explore telecollaborative projects that might interest you
• Assignments:
  • Create a blog account and email the address to the class (if you haven't already)
  • Link classmates' blogs to yours and subscribe to their blogs with an RSS reader
  • Try to post your first blog post about a Web 2.0 technology (not required but strongly suggested) 
  • Read Peters, Chapters 1-3
  • Read Bruce, "Credibility of the Web" (PDF file, Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
  • Read Marcovitz, Chapter 2, Critical Information Literacy & Critical Information Literacy on Moodle
  • Read Collier, "In Praise of the Internet: Shifting Focus and Engaging Critical Thinking Skills"
  • Read Marcovitz, Chapter 4, Telecollaborative Projects
    
  • Marcovitz, Chapter 5, Web 2.0
    
  • Read Harris, "Curriculum Based Telecollaboration"

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

Last updated: June 13, 2012