Week 14: Technology Integration Project Defenses

Oral defenses of the Technology Integration Projects will take place this week.

Tuesday, November 27th
Room 128 EH
128 Program

Wednesday, November 28th
Rooms 130 EH and 116-H EH
130 Program
116-H Program

Week 12: Technology Creation Phase

In agenda for November 13th and 14th is:

1. Sign-ups for individual conferencing. Will send document through ANGEL as a reminder.
2. Updating Portfolios to document your Tech Int Project
3. Oral Defenses of the Tech Integration Plan
4. Individual conferencing about progress and ANGEL grades.
   

Week 11: Technology Integration Plans

The agenda for November 6th and 7th is:

1. Share Tech Integration Plans
2. Work on Tech Creation Phase
3. For those of you thinking about having students use blogs, here is a link on how you can keep the blogs semi-private
   

Week 10: Collaborative Applications

The agenda for October 30th and 31st is:

1. Collaborative Applications PPT.
2. Test Run
   
3. Questions about Tech Plans?
4. Portfolio Assessment
   

Week 9: Mock Interviews

The agenda for Oct. 23rd and 24th is:

1. Mock Interviews
2. New Tech Presentations
3. Dinner
4. Work on your Tech Integration plans
   

Week 8: Adding Sound

The agenda for October 16th & 17 includes:

1. Any questions about adding images?
2. Google Earth KML
   
3. Complete Part 1 of today's lab portion.
4. Brief group discussion about your questions and comments regarding podcasting.
5. Small group activity to brainstorm possible ideas for the technology integration plan. Groups should use the whiteboards to document their ideas for presentation to the class.
6. Class presentation of tech integration plan possibilities. This presentation will be recorded using Audacity so that we can podcast it from our blogs.
7. New Technology Presentations
   
8. Complete Part 2 of today's lab
9. Portfolio Questions???
   

Week 8: Adding Sound

The lab for October 16th and 17th consists of two parts:

Part 1:

1. Watch the tutorial on preparing your blog for podcasting.
   
2. Burn your blog's feed with Feedburner so that it is capable of podcasting.
3. Add the button through Feedburner so that people can easily subscribe to your new podcast feed.
4. Create a link to your Feedburner feed on the wiki gallery. As a hint, the url for this page should start out with the address "http://feeds.feedburner.com/"
5. Subscribe to your podcast feed using iTunes.
6. Watch the about podcasts video. Write down any questions or comments you want to discuss with the class.

Part 2:

1. Download the audio from of our class discussion about technology integration plans. Save it to your afs space or your googlepages space.
2. Create a new post on your blog in which you write about some of the possibilities you can see for using podcasts in K-12 education. Be sure to embed a link to the .mp3 you downloaded in step 1 above so that you can complete making your podcast.
3. Return to iTunes to verify that your podcast was successful.
4. Get caught up on any remaining assignments. Keep in mind that your mid-term portfolio evaluations are this coming Tuesday and Wednesday, October 23rd and 24th, and your polished Technology Integration Plans are due on Tuesday or Wednesday, November 6th and 7th. See the syllabus for greater detail.