01+Syllabus

= ** Session One ** =

**Who am I?** Making and organizing most of the accounts we'll need: Google Diigo Ning Wikispaces Twitter

Assignment--make the accounts for Google, Ning, and Twitter. Here's a handy form to help you keep track of all these accounts and passwords.

Diigo 1. Create your own Diigo page, add as many bookmarks as you can with at least three tags per bookmark.
 * Staying Organized**

Homework 2. Annotate and share at least one bookmark. 3. Take a screen shot of your page (optional) and reflect on how Diigo will help you be more productive. (not optional :)

Online communities for professional growth 1. Join ISENET or our 21Skillsnings and write your first blog entry. 2. Visit 2/3 pages of professionals in your area or whose thoughts interest you. Leave comments on at least two posts that you find intriguing.
 * Professional Development/Networking**

Session Two Assessment/Evaluation & Survey Tools ** Rubrics, Rubistar, Quia 1. Create an online educational survey with Quia with at least 5 questions. 2. Survey at least 5 teachers and download the results into a spreadsheet. 3. After exporting the survey to a spreadsheet and creating a chart, capture a screen shot of the results, and record your reflections in the Ning.

1. Learn some of the features of Office that can improve teaching--annotating text, commenting, more effective revision, more thoughtful presentations. examples--tracking changes, using speaker notes, generating on the fly graphs. 2. Capture a screen shot (using the Print Screen shortcut), paste it into your Ning page, and write some reflections on at least tools you used. Reflect on how this helps increase your productivity.
 * Beyond the Basics with MS Office**

Visit Blogger or EduBlogs 1. Create an educational account on one of the sponsored blogging sites or First Class 2. Create an educational blog that supports your position as an educator. In the setup, select the use of moderated comments. 3. Write your first entry. 4. Share the blog address with at least two other educators; ask them to post comments to your post. 5. Access your blog and moderate the comments. 6. Optional: Make the blog visually appealing with graphics, video, charts or tables, or other useful information to support the blog. 7. Capture a screen shot of your blog and include your reflections for the Ning. Please include the web address for your blog.
 * Blogging**

1. Open a Google Account. 2. Create a Google document and describe ways you see Google Documents can make you more productive. Make use of 3-4 formatting items on the toolbar, and invite a colleague, or classmate to collaborate by making some edits to the document. 3. Capture a screen shot (using Print-screen) and paste it into your page on the Ning. Include some reflections on how Google Documents can increase your productivity.
 * Collaboration Tools--Google Docs**

1. Set up a Google Reader account in conjunction with your existing account. 2. Find a site with updates of which you'd like to be appraised. 3. Add the information to your reader.
 * Information Aggregation via RSS**

Choose a website from the list provided that is focused on a subject or age group appropriate to your teaching. The example below focuses on Language Arts. 1. Visit the Thinkfinity and ReadWriteThink sites. 2. Choose at least one activity from ReadWriteThink and one from a Thinkfinity partner that will enhance a lesson you teach.
 * Content Area Tools **

1. Login to Quia. How can you use the question bank to create a base of questions to use to design personalized tests for students? 2. Using Spokentext, make a text to audio recording. Capture a screen while you are creating the audio recording. Write a reflection on how this could be useful. 3. Visit Rubistar and make a rubric for an assignment that you give regularly.
 * Differentiated Instruction & Diverse Learning**

Digital Citizenship, Acceptable Use, Critical Evaluation, Bogus/Hoax sites, CyberSafety 1. Select four websites - two from the bogus/hoax list and two of your choice. Critically review the four websites using the Joyce Valenza criteria (content, authority/credibility, bias/purpose, and usability/navigation). 2. Develop a plan with your team identifying 4 activities you will use in your setting to help others learn about: cyberbullying, personal information on the web, acceptable use of the Internet, and/or Netiquette.
 * Digital Citizenship**

Picasa, Flickr 1. Create an account at one of the digital photo storage sites and upload educationally appropriate photos for sharing with a colleague. 2. Capture a screen shot your page, include the URL to your site, and reflect upon ways you can use this type of resource for your classroom or your setting. 3. Add another persons photo stream to your RSS reader.
 * Digital Images**

Movie Maker, Animoto 1. Create a short 2-3 minute video that includes title, content, transitions and music. 2. Write about three ways digital storytelling can be used in your classroom or educational setting. 3. Include some feedback from a student or peer about your story, and what suggestions for improvement were recommended in your reflection.
 * Digital Story Telling**

Netvibes, Weebly, Wikispaces 1. Create your own website using one of these sites. 2. Include at least three pages, text, images, documents and web-links. You may want to use your site as a means to demonstrate some of the things you have learned from this 21 Things course. 3. Include the URL to your site and a reflection about the ways you could use a web page creator to create a web presence.
 * Build a Window into Your Classroom**

1. Visit [|Trackstar] and design a webquest on a topic about which you teach. 2. Go to Wikipedia and find an article about a topic on which you consider yourself knowledgeable. 3. Improve the article, documenting the changes you make. 4. Add the article to your RSS feed so that you can keep up with the changes that happen to your article.
 * Researching on the Web**

Illuminations, Google Earth 1. Visit the Illuminations site and go through one of the interactive activities. 2. Go to Google Earth. Type your address in the "Fly to" area and locate your house. 3. Take one of the Sightseeing tours in Google Earth. Locate the tours under "Places" and click the + sign next to Sightseeing. Then select one tour to go on. 4. Go to the Layers Tab, under the Places tab, and expand it by clicking on it. Click the + next to Ocean to expand it. Visit a shipwreck or an ocean expedition by double-clicking on it. You many need to zoom out to see the icons for the sites you are looking for.
 * Online Interactive Learning Tools**

United Streaming, YouTube, Teacher Tube Explore the online video resources available to you. 1. Describe how you could integrate online video resources into your classroom instruction 2. Discuss the features of one of the three tools listed above
 * Online Video Resources**

Audacity, GCast/Podomatic, 1. Locate and listen to a podcast on a topic of interest to you. Write a brief summary of the content and place this in your portfolio. 2. Create a podcast in Audacity or Gcast. 3. Post your podcast. There are several places you can upload your Podcasts. You can upload the podcast to your Blog that you created or your Weebly or Wikispaces page.
 * Podcasting**

Fireshot, ZamZar/ MediaConvert, Jing/Screencast-o-matic 1. Take a Word document and convert to .pdf format or select another file format and convert. 2. Download and use Fireshot; capture a screen shot of a webpage and reflect on how you can use in the classroom. 3. Using Jing or another screen recording tool, demonstrate your proficiency in one of the 21 things. Share the file digitally. 4. Download a video from YouTube and convert it so that you can play it while offline or blocked from YouTube.
 * Productivity Tools**

**Professional Resources/Organizations**

1. Research the websites of 3 professional organizations in your area, technology, and/or media. 2. What resources do these sites provide? 3. Can you subscribe to new information via your RSS reader?

Bubbl.us, Gliffy, MindMeister 1. Create your own diagram using one of these tools 2. Save the diagram as an image file on your computer.
 * Visual Learning**