Wiki Page, IPT 286 Sample Course: Personal Technology Projects

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2014-03-11T13:40:50-06:00

Getting Started

Over the course of the next 3 weeks you will do your last major project. Actually, this project will consist of a few, mini projects referred to as Personal Technology Projects (PTP). The rationale behind these projects is to provide you with opportunities to learn more technologies that are of interest to you and would be beneficial in your teaching. To complete the requirements for these assignments, you must earn a combined total of 15 points from all of the projects. Most of the projects listed are worth 5 points, so doing 3 projects would provide you with the 15 points you need. Some are worth 10 points and a few are worth 15. It does not matter what combination you choose to do so long as you get the 15 points.

Each week there will be an assignments page that will allow you to turn in a project. If you choose to do 3 projects worth 5 points each, turn one project in each week. If you are doing a 10 point project you have 2 weeks to do it, so you may not turn in a project one of the weeks. Obviously, a 15 point project would not be due until the end of the third week. On the weeks where you do not submit an assignment you must comment on the assignment page by saying "I'm working on _____ project and here's where I am at on it". Doing this allows me to know that you are actually working on a project and helps you stay on top of the class.

Select Your Projects

You can select projects to work on by visiting the badges/tutorials website:

http://iptedtec.org/

And completing projects in the Personal Technology Cluster.

You are welcome to learn any technology that (1) you don't currently know and (2) will be useful for teaching your content area. However, to help you choose, these are some of the tools that I recommend for English majors:

1. Diigo (collaborative web bookmarking and annotations) – 5-10 points, depending on scope

2. Mindmapping (such as Inspiration (available on the computers in the TEC lab, Mindmeister.com, webspiration.com, wallwisher, or creately.com) – 5-10 points depending on scope

3. Podcasting - 10 points if you use Garageband, 5 points if you record directly into Audioboo.fm

4. Social Networks II (Wall.fm; Ning; Edmodo) – 5 points

5. Interactive whiteboards (10 points)

6. iBooks Author (Students create ipad and digital books) – 10 points

7. Citation management software: 10 points for Mendeley, 5 points for easybib

8. Polleverywhere - 5 points (like clickers, but with cell phones and computers)

Other technologies that you might consider if those above don't strike your fancy:

1. Webquests - 5 points

2. Computer text to speech programs (so students can read and listen to the text simultaneously)

3. Dictation software (e.g. Dictate & Dragon Naturally Speaking) - 10 points

4. Collaborative word processing and commenting (Google Docs, Adobe Buzz, Zoho, etc.) If you pick this option, you need to review a tool you don't know and create a well-thought out plan for using it to facilitate teaching/learning. - 5 points

5. Electronic publishing through DIY publishers (e.g. Wordclay, Lulu)

6. Google Groups - 5 points

7. Prezi Presentations - 5 points

8. Online Posters (i.e. Glogster.com) - 5 points

9. Audio Memoir - make a proposal

10. Viddler (video annotation). You can also do this with Youtube, but it has fewer features. 5 points

11. Voicethread - 5 points

12. Pixelture (multiple, wireless projectors) - 10 points

13. Google Earth – 15 points

14. Digital Storytelling

15. PowerPoint Games - 5 points

16. Librivox (public domain audiobooks - 5 pts)

17. Photo Editing (with Picasa, Photoshop, or Picnik) - 5-15 points depending on scope

18. Web conferencing (Google, Skype, Oovoo) - 5 points

19. Voki and Blabberize - 5 points

20. Socrative.com - polling (like student clickers) with any mobile device with additional cool teacher features. - 5 points

21. Wolfgramalpha – search for data sets, not websites - 5 points

22. Instagrok – like pinterest but for research and data - 5 points

23. Wikimindmap – shows related terms to search terms. So put in “civil war” and see all the potential related search terms for searching on wikipedia. - 5 points

24. animoto – easy video creation - 10 points

25. wevideo.com or Mozilla Popcorn as a web-based version of iMovie - 10 points

26. Twitter - 5 points

Workshops

Part of this unit is having some opportunities to learn and be exposed to some new technologies that you might be able to use later, even if you don't use them for one of your personal projects. To that end, all of the IPT 286 teachers will be teaching workshops during the next three weeks on various technologies. Some will be useful to you in your subject area, but some won't. Your requirement is to attend two workshops of your choice. These don't have to be workshops that I teach. If you go to a workshop, be sure to ask the instructor to mark you as attending so we can give you credit. Below is the list of workshops we will be offering (all will be in the MCKB computer lab unless otherwise noted:

Monday, March 18, 4-5 p.m. —
Tuesday, March 19, 4-5 p.m. —
Wednesday, March 20, 4-5 p.m. —
Thursday, March 21, 4-5 p.m. —
Monday, March 25, 4-5 p.m. —
Tuesday, March 26, 4-5 p.m. —
Wednesday, March 27, 4-5 p.m. —
Thursday, March 28, 4-5 p.m. —
Monday, April 1, 4-5 p.m. —
Tuesday, April 2, 4-5 p.m. —
Wednesday, April 3, 4-5 p.m. —
Thursday, April 4, 4-5 p.m. —

Discussion

Before moving on, let's talk about what technologies might be good to learn. Please participate in this discussion by answering the following questions:

1. What are some of the most difficult teaching and learning problems you envision facing in your specific content area?

2. What technologies do you think might help you better teach these challenging topics?

3. What do you think are the most important technologies in your subject area and why? (may or may not be the same as for #2).