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.

Week 7: Adding Images Lab

In the lab portion of class for October 9th and 10th, you should complete the following tasks before leaving:

1. Explore the Creative Commons website. Add a CC license to your blog and/or portfolio. If you would like to reserve all rights for your blog/portfolio, show me that you can add the license, then you can remove it.
2. Upload one of the sample pics from ANGEL or one of your own onto a photo sharing site like Flickr or PicasaWeb. Add a link to your site on the wiki gallery.
3. Create your own map mashup using Google Maps. Be sure to link your map mashup to the wiki gallery.
4. Also save the KLM file for your map mashup and upload it to either your afs space or to your googlepages file space. Link to the KLM file through the wiki gallery so that people can download your map and see it in Google Earth
5. Find a CC image using FlickrCC or CC Search and add it properly to a post on your blog. In this post, write about what you have learned regarding the use of images, copyright, mashing, etc. and what this will mean for your own use of images. Also comment on what challenges you think might exist in helping students to think about the use of images more critically.

Week 6: Organizing the internet lab

In today's lab, you should:

1. Set up a social bookmark account and bookmark some sites of professional interest to you. Be sure to think about how you would like to tag or organize them.
2. Update the “bookmarks” link on the wiki page
3. Set up a calendar account and create a couple of sample events on a public calendar (you might even try subscribing to the CEP416 calendar).
4. Update your “calendar” link on the wiki page.
5. Create a post on your blog that discusses how you might use bookmarks and calendars a) for your personal/professional use, b) for students to use, and c) for parents to use
6. Continue working on your portfolio. By now, all your major pages should be up even though they are under construction. Please have your resume up as a pdf by next class period.
   

Week 4: Personalizing the Internet Lab

In lab for September 18th and 19th, you should:

1. Sign up for a Google Alert to a search phrase of your choosing.
2. Set up an aggregator account and add a CEP416 folder within which you subscribe to each other’s blogs and the course blog.
3. Update your “aggregator” link on the wiki page.
4. Play with iGoogle. Add some of the gadgets, move them to different places, and try out the “Add Tab” feature.
5. Work on your portfolio. By the end of class, all of your main pages should be published and linked to properly even if the content is in rough draft form.
6. Create a post on your blog where you discuss personalizing the internet for your own use and for potential use with your students.
7. Register for the COE tech conference. Class will not meet next week, September 25th and 26th so that you can attend the conference. Attendance at the conference is mandatory.
   

Week 3: Professional Web Portfolio Lab

In the lab portion of today's class, you should:

1. Set up an account with Google Page Creator or another web creation site.
   
2. Set up the major structure of your portfolio. You might want to sketch this out on paper first.
   
3. Put text, a picture, and a link to your blog on your website's homepage.
4. Update your portfolio link on the Wiki Gallery so that it links to your homepage.
5. Create a new post on your blog that discusses what you want to accomplish with your portfolio and how your structuring of the portfolio will maximize your success with these goals. Be sure to give the post an appropriate label or tag.
6. Sign up for a week to do your New Technology Presentation. You should partner with one other person (I think one group will need three). You might want do decide these partnerships via a particular interest, subject area, or grade level. Let instructor know the groupings and when you would like to present. Two presentations max per week, first come first serve.
   

Week 1: Blogging Lab

In the lab portion of class on August 28th and 29th, you should:

1. Set up your student blog.
2. Create an about page or update your profile to briefly talk about yourself and how you are going to use this blog.
3. Create a sample post that includes text, a picture, and a link to an outside resource.
   
4. Update your blog link on our Wiki Gallery

To help you achieve these tasks, you might first want to begin by looking through the blogging tools' help resources or tours. Second, you might want to search the web to look for tutorials and tipsheets on how to use your blogging application.