schedule


 * Date || Class Topics || Resources || Assignment ||
 * 01/20 || Some benefits of using technology

Web 2.0

RSS || [|Google Reader]

[|iGoogle]

[|Top 100 Educational Blogs]

Class Blog

[|Google Docs/Spreadsheets/Presentations] || Reading: [|Why Schools Should Break the Web 2.0 Barrier]

Respond to blog prompt (by noon Tuesday) - see class blog link

Read the blogs that you have subscribed to this week. Which ones are interesting and which are not? Develop a list of characteristics of effective and ineffective blogs.

Google Spreadsheets Assignment: In preparation for next week's data analysis activity you should record the number of calories (kCal), fat (g), protein (g), carbohydrates (g), saturated fat (g), fiber (g), transfat (g) and sodium (mg) in the foods you consume for three days (use a website, such as calorie count to determine nutritional information). Create a Google Spreadshhet to record your information. Share the spreadsheet with me by 5:00 PM on Thursday. ||


 * 01/27 || Data Analysis (Excel)

TPACK

|| Excel Survey

[|TPACK]

eTIPs

Virginia SOL's

Content Characteristics

Form Characteristics

Survey 1 || Required Reading:

Optional Reading: - if you are not familiar with probeware, this reading will help you to benefit from class activities next week

Respond to blog prompt (by noon Tuesday) - see class blog link ||
 * 02/03 || Animation, multiple representation (preview, whole-class)

Probeware

Wikis ||

[|Wikispaces]

MWSnap

[|Wikis in the Classroom] || Assign Data Analysis Project (See Collab)

Add wiki address and content area to Google Doc

Add image and introductory paragraph to first page of wiki

Reading:



Blog Entry: See blog ||
 * 02/10 || Formative Assessment

Simulations (reinforce, individual/small group)

Clickers || [|Explore Learning] || Read: AND

Blog entry (see blog)

Complete data analysis project for next week ||
 * 02/17 || Non-linear PPT

Smartboard

Inspiration || [|Zamzar] (capture video from web, file format change)

[|Tiny URL]

Inspiration || Data Analysis Project Due

Assign Formative Assessment Project

Blog Entry (see blog) ||
 * 02/24 || Social Bookmarking

Video

Information Literacy || Portaportal

Google Coop

Yahoo Kids

Evaluation Criteria

Evaluating Webpages

Delicious

[|PBS] (for videos)

Thinkfinity (for videos)

Discovery Education (for vidoes)

Teacher Tube (for videos)

YouTube (for videos) || Assignment 1: Social bookmarking videos

Assignment 2: Create "kid-friendly" website evaluation checklist using a wiki

(See PowerPoint for more details on each assignment) ||
 * 03/03 || Online Class

Internet Safety

Home School Connection

Virtual Schooling ||  || You will need to respond to initial blog prompts by 5:00 PM Friday 03/05. I will post some follow-up questions by Monday 03/08, which you should respond to by midnight Tuesday 03/16. ||
 * 03/17 || Webquests || Rubric Creator || Formative Assessment Project Due

Assign Authentic Instruction Project

Blog Entry (see blog) ||
 * 03/24 || Complete WebQuests Activity

Digital Citizenship

Introduce podcasting || Pocast examples: [|science] [|more science] [|math] [|health] || Write a two-minute (one page double spaced) script for podcasting next week ||
 * 03/31 || Copyright

Podcasting || [|copyright quiz]

[|Fair-y Use Tale]

[|Copyright and Fair Use chart - what you can and cannot do]

Picasa Web Albums

Search Engines: Music: [|CCMixter] [|Music Alley] Books: [|Great Books] [|Bartleby] [|Online Books] Images: [|Wikipedia Images] Video: [|Internet Archive]

[|Audacity (free download)]

[|Linking lame mp3 encoder to Audacity tutorial]

[|Free Play Music] || Next week we will add images to your podcast. Bring images (use Picasa Web Albums) to class. You will need 20-25 images. ||
 * 04/07 || Photostory

Picasa

|| [|Photostory (free download)]

Scholastic

Tom Snyder Productions

Sunburst

Riverdeep || Authentic Instruction Project Due

Sign up for time slot for Smartboard practice ||
 * 04/14 || Smartboard practice

Flip video cameras

Assistive Technology ||  || [|Reading: Show Me the Money]

Finish Part One of Assistive Technology lesson by Friday at 5:00

Finish Part Two of Assistive Technology lesson by noon on Wednesday ||
 * 04/21 || Grants for Technology

Digital Microscopes

Time-lapse photography

Moviemaker ||





|| Blog entry

Choose activities to share

Eportfolio due by scheduled final exam date ||
 * 04/28 || Activity Share ||  ||   ||