Course+Information+3610

=Course Information for 3610 =

=**Weekly Overview** =


 * **Date **

**Week of: ** || TOPIC ||  (introduction to 3610, final project discussion, 21st century teaching and learning) ||  (scope and sequence, content standards, inclusions in the unit) ||  (wikis: yours, mine, and others; inclusions and structure) ||  (Project-based, interdisciplinary, and others of consideration) || (Teaching document / learning aid) ||  (Targeted research) || SPRING BREAK--no assignment (that's why they call it "break") ||  (Podcasting) || (YouTube and Embedr) ||  (digital storytelling) || **(finals week)** ||  Let’s Look Where We Can Go! <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> (RSS) ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**1/16** || <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> What’s Up?
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**1/23** || <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> So What Will I Teach When I Get a Job and How Will I Teach It?
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**1/30** || <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> Quick Quick…Make a Webpage!
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**2/6** || <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> Designing Curriculum!
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**2/13** || <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> Getting Down to Basics with Word
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**2/20** || <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Web2.0 Tools (inclusion of 3) ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**2/27** || <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Internet Resources (wikipage inclusions and delicious account) ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**3/6** || <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Did You Know That!
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**3/13** || <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">PowerPoint / presentation tool ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**3/20** || <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">[[image:spring-break-color.gif width="138" height="87"]]
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**3/27** || <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> Giving Ol’ Time Radio a Makeover
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**4/3** || <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Someday You'll Be a Star!
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**4/10** || <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Tell Me A Digital Story, Pleeeeeeeeeease!
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**4/17** || <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Web2.0 Tools Revisited (inclusion of 3) ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**4/24** || <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Digital Media ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**5/1** || <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Final reflection ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**5/8**


 * <span style="color: #e36c0a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Date Assigned || <span style="color: #e36c0a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Assignment || <span style="color: #e36c0a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Description || <span style="color: #e36c0a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Due Date || <span style="color: #e36c0a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Points || <span style="color: #e36c0a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Weight ||
 * || **<span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> ALL WORK IN ** || ** The grade of "A" is EARNED. You can only do this if you complete these two criteria: **

<span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Videos, grade book, project examples, etc. || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1/23 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> 25 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> 5% || <span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> (teaching aid) || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Creation of and inclusion of a Basic Word document to be used as an instructional document || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2/20 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">100 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5% || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">(Just2clicks) || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3/6 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">150 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5% || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">THURS. || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">100 || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">5% || Individual grades are due to MSCD by May 19th. I will post your final course grade in the online grade back prior to that time.
 * 1. Exemplary work is submitted consistently; **
 * 2. ALL work is submitted!! Yes, ALL!!! ** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">1/16 || <span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Class blog entry, misc. || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> blog conversation on 21st Century Teaching
 * <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">1/23 || <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Scope and Sequence || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Content / grade specific scope and sequence || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1/30 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> 50 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> 5% ||
 * <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">1/30 || <span style="background-color: #ec2222; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Wiki Creation || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Creation and population of main components of wiki (this does NOT include the technology projects) || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2/6 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">100 |||| <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5% ||
 * <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">2/6 || <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Writing lessons || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Completion of a lesson idea outline with interdisciplinary inclusions || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2/13 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> 200 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> 5% ||
 * <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">2/13 || <span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Beginning Word
 * <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">2/20 || <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Web2.0 Tools || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Creation of and inclusion of 3 Web2.0 tools || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2/27 || <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">150 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5% ||
 * <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">2/27 || <span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Internet Resources || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">10 best unit sites for students
 * <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">3/6 || <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Targeted Research || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Creation of and inclusion of a Tumblr research project || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3/13 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">200 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5% ||
 * <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">3/13 || <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">PowerPoint/Presentation || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Creation of and inclusion of a PowerPoint / presentation || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3/27 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">250 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5% ||
 * <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">3/27 || <span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Podcast series (3) || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Creation, annotation and posting on class site wiki of a podcast series of 3 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4/3 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">150 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5% ||
 * <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">4/3 || <span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">YouTube || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Finding unit resources and embedding video into your wiki || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4/10 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> 100 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> 5% ||
 * <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">4/10 || <span style="background-color: #ec2222; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Digital Storytelling || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">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: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4/17 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> 300 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> 5% ||
 * <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">4/17 || <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Web2.0 Tools (Revisited) || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Creation and inclusion of a 3 Web2.0 tools || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">4/24 || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">150 || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">5% ||
 * || <span style="background-color: #ec2222; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Population of final wiki || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Submission of your completed classroom wiki BY 5:00 P.M. || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5/1 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">500 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">20% ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4/24 || <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Digital Media || <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Creation of two Animoto videos || <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">5/1 || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">150 || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">5% ||
 * <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5/1 || <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Final Reflection || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Creation of and inclusion of "From My Heart" inclusion in your wiki and RSS screenshot || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5/8 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">50 || <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> 5% ||
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">5/8 || <span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">RSS || <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Creation and submission of a screenshot of your RSS feeds || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5/12

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Course Documents**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Course Blog (video on how to: [|Post to the class blog)]

On-line gradebook

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Links to download software** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Flash]

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Audacity]

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Photostory3

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 116.16%; text-align: left;">And here are some of the Web2.0 tools we will be utilizing. With each of these, simply go to the website and create an account. That’s it! But to make your life less stressful, please use the same username, the same email address, and the same password for all of them. This is NOT a comprehensive list, but will get you started, IF you choose to set up the accounts before class. If not, NO PROBLEM!


 * [|BlogSpot]**
 * Wikispaces**
 * [|Animoto] (be sure to sign up for the "education" account)**
 * [|Tumblr]**
 * [|Google]**
 * [|Google Reader]**
 * [|YouTube]**
 * [|Blabberize]**
 * [|GoogleEarth]**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Other Links** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Colorado Content Standards]

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