3610+Course+Information

=Course Information for 3610 =

 **Weekly Overview**


** || ** TOPIC ** || ** ||  What’s Up? (introduction to 3610, final project discussion, 21st century teaching and learning) || ** ||  So What Will I Teach When I Get a Job and How Will I Teach it? (scope and sequence, writing a unit, inclusions in the unit) || ** ||  Quick Quick…Make a Webpage! (wikis: yours, mine, and others; inclusions and structure) || 9/10
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 * **<span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">8/13
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">8/20
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">9/3
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** || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">Getting Down to Basics with Word || || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">Did You Know That! (Research project: Internet resources and Shelfari) || ** || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)"> Word Can Do THAT?! (advanced Word)
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 * 9/17**
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">9/24

|| 10/1 ** || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)"> Beginning PowerPoint <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)"> || 10/8 ** || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)"> Advanced PowerPoint
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|| ** || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)"> Giving Ol’ Time Radio a Makeover (podcasting) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)"> || ** || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">Web2.0 tools: Part I (intro of 10 categories; selection and creation of 3) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)"> || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">Tell Me A Digital Story, Pleeeeeaaaasssseeee (digital storytelling) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)"> || Web2.0 tools: Part II (intro of 10 categories; selection and creation of 3) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)"> || to spend the time working on your WIKI and your unit.**
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">10/15
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">10/22
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">10/29 **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">  || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">11/5 **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">  || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">11/12 **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">  || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">
 * CATCH UP WEEK: Class is optional, no assignment is due but you are expected

Oh, The Places You'll go! (Google Earth) ||
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">11/19 **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">  || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">

Someday you'll be a star! (YouTube) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)"> || Let’s Learn LiveText! || Can We Talk…Continuous and On-Line Discussions (blogs and their use in the classroom) || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">12/3 **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">  || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">12/10 **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">  || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(112,48,160)">

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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(95,73,122); LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"> ** || **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(227,108,10)">Due Date ** || **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(227,108,10)">Points ** || **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(227,108,10)">Weight ** || ** || <span style="COLOR: rgb(71,135,59)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> Several blog comments done on class blog site. || <span style="COLOR: rgb(71,135,59)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> various || <span style="COLOR: rgb(71,135,59)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> varies || <span style="COLOR: rgb(71,135,59)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> 2%  || Scope and Sequence ** || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> Completion of scope and sequence worksheet reflecting perusal of districts’ curriculum || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> 8/24 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> 50 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> 3% ||  ** || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">Completion of a unit outline with interdisciplinary inclusions || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> 8/24  || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"> 100 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> 3% ||   || Wiki creation **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">Creation and population of main components of wiki (this does NOT include the technology projects) || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> 9/7 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> 200 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> 4% || Beginning Word (learning) ** || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> Creation of and inclusion of a Basic Word document to be used as a handout for students
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(227,108,10)">Assignment  ** || **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(227,108,10)">Description
 * ** Attendance  ** || Attendance in class weekly || weekly || 10 || 10% ||
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">Blog Entries
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 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">Writing A Unit
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|| 9/14<span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"> || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"> 75 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"> 3% || Beginning Word (teaching)
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** || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">Creation of and inclusion of a Basic Word document to be used as an instructional document  || 9/14 || 75 || 2% ||
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">Internet Resources ** || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">

Annotated list of websites for a research project, Shelfari, and a BRIEF description of the research assignment.

|| 9/21<span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">  || 150 || 5% ||
 * ** Scavenger Hunt  ** || Unit Scavenger Hunt || 9/21 || 150 || 5% ||
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Advanced Word

** || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> Creation of and inclusion of an Advanced Word document  || 9/28 || 100 || 5% || PowerPoint
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** || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">Creation of and inclusion of a PowerPoint presentation || 10/12 || 200 || 5% || Podcast series (3)
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** || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">Creation, annotation and posting on class site wiki of a podcast series of 3 || 10/19 || 150 || 5% || Web2.0 Tools - Part I  ** || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">
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Creation of and inclusion of 3 of 6 Web2.0 tools from the 10 category choices

|| <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"> 10/26 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)">150 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)">5% || 11/2 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> 200 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> 5% || Creation of and inclusion of 3 of 6 Web2.0 tools from the 10 category choices
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">Digital Storytelling  ** || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">   <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">Completed and posted on class site wiki digital story (appropriate to a topic) made with PhotoStory3 (or, on a MAC, a Quicktime digital story made with i-movie)   || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">Web2.0 Tools - Part II  ** || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">

|| <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"> 11/9 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)">150 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)">5% || || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">100 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">4% || || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"> Finding unit resources and embedding video into your wiki <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">
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 * CATCH UP WEEK - no assignment due** || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">
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|| 11/23 || 100 || 3% || Population of final wiki ** || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">Submission of your completed classroom wiki   || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)">11/30 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)">500 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)">20% || Successful completion and acceptance of your LiveText submission <span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">Final changes must be in submitted by 12/13 (5:00 p.m.) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)">12/7 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)">100 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)">4%* || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">Creation of and inclusion of two posts (to be included on class site wiki) || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> 12/13 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> 50 || <span style="COLOR: rgb(48,131,47)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)">2% || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(210,55,55)">***Failure to successfully complete your LiveText submission changes by 12/13 at 5:00 p.m. will result in one lower grade for the course.** <span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(95,73,122)"> **Course Documents**
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[|3610 Syllabus.doc]

[|Course Blog] (v<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">ideo on how to: [|Post to the class blog)]

[|On-line gradebook]

[|Flash] [|Audacity] [|Photostory3] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">
 * Links to download software**