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1/20/05

Introduction

Class overview & prerequisites

Weblog Set-Up

Idea Gallery Activity

HDS account home page

National Council of Teachers of English

National Council of Teachers of Social Studies

International Society for Technology in Education

Blogger.com

Reading Response article

None
Class 2
1/27/05

Digital History

Historical Thinking

The Valley of the Shadow

Animated theater map

Beard's Diary

Holisinger Collection

Content Rationale Assignment

345 Folder in Home Directory

Reading Response #1

Class 3
2/3/04

(Open Lab)

PowerPoint Reading Recovery "Construction

Blogger.com

PowerPoint tutorial

PowerPoint Tips Sheet

Presentation Rubric

 

Technology Autobiography Blog Posting

Class 4
2/10/05

 

Digital Storytelling Lab

Intro. to digital video editing

iBlog? - Apple's Student Blog

Apple iMovie Education Examples

Elements of a Digital Story

Digital story rubric

Reading on Digital Storytelling

Completed PowerPoint

Story ideas

Reflective blog posting on the process of creating your PowerPoint, and one idea for "reinvention" in your own classroom.

Class 5
2/24/05

 

Digital Storytelling Lab

Apple Learning Interchange

 

Storyboard

Reading response #2

Script Draft

Artifacts scanned and gathered

Class 6
3/02/05

 

Digital Storytelling Lab

 

Apple Learning Interchange

Music Sites:
http://magnatune.com/
http://www.opsound.org/

For moviemaker update, click here.

For moviemaker tutorial:
Part One
Part Two

Revise script, record narration, sequence images.

Over the course of the week - add soundtrack and special effects. (Remember, to add soundtrack, export your finished movie. Then, import that movie file into a new MovieMaker project. Use that "new" audio line for your soundtrack.)

3/10/05

NO CLASS! ENJOY SPRING BREAK!

Class 8
3/17/05

Intro. to WebQuests

Discuss and distribute Matrix.

Today's Task

The WebQuest Page

WebQuest Training Materials

Digital story due - submit on CD.

Weblog posting reflecting on digital storytelling project, and one idea for "reinvention" in your own classroom.

Class 9
3/24/05

WebQuests and Working with Online Sources

Arthur Butz Site

Website Rubric
(for k-12 student evaluation)

WebQuest Project Rubric

Projects from former students

Composer Tutorial

 

Identify content, activities, and "hook" for WebQuest. (Meet with your partner, if applicable.)

WebQuest/WIP lesson plan.

Matrix Due

Class 10
3/31/05
Web Inquiry Projects

Web Inquiry Projects (SDSU)

WebQuest Project

Class 11
4/7/05

Wiki Activity (interactive hypertext)

Grand Challenge Review

seedwiki

Wikipedia

Classroom example
Teaching Writing example

Group texts

Reading Response #3

WebQuest (email URL to Sara, 4/7/04 by NOON)

Class 12
4/14 /05

Online Literature Circles

 

Tapped In

Reading Response #4

Work on Grand Challenge.

Class 13
4/21/05
Grand Challenge Open Lab

Lesson Plan Template

Grand Challenge Rubric

Matrix

Work on Grand Challenge.

Reading Response #5 (Select an article from your professional journal. How can you infuse technology into the instructional strategies depicted? What is the value added?)

Found Poem

Class 14
4/28/05
Grand Challenge Presentations

Teacher Weblog Example

Fanfiction.net

Bloglines

Grand Challenge Lesson and Matrix -OR- Annotated Video

Final
5/3/05
All assignments must be submitted.    Revised Rationale Assignment

 

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