Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Week 15 Agenda: Overview of w301+selection of educational technologies

Before class:
1. Edit the content of your e-portfolio by signing in Google pages creator (http://pages.google.com)
(word document for what to include in each page)
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In class:
1. Course Evaluation (15 minutes)
(1) Go to http://www.indiana.edu/~best/
(2) Click on the left under QuizSite Students, log in using your IU User ID and password, click on the OK button to continue, and choose X's class and do the evaluation.
(3) You can scroll up and down and make changes as often as you wish. You must click "Proceed" at the end of the evaluation to submit your response. If you don't do that it won't go. And after you do that, you can't go back to make further changes. It will confirm that the evaluation was successfully completed. You can get "Help with QuizSite" by clicking on that phrase at the bottom of the page where the classes are listed.

2. E-portfolio: Google Pages Creator
- Link your video
- Re-check your e-portfolio before you turn in your project
- The URL of your e-portfolio; upload the URL of the homepage to Oncourse Dropbox
The project is due by next Wednesday, Dec 12th midnight.

3. Overview of w301/ Announcement of w401 (slides)

4. Chun-Yi's selection of interesting/useful educational tools

(1) iGoogle: customize your google page








(2) Blogger










(3) Wikispaces
(free for k-12 educational uses)

(4) PBwiki
- a wiki designed for kids (an example of a class wiki)
PikiWiki site (http://pikiwiki.com/ews/index.jsp)








(5) iTunes
- access to free educational podcasts and other podcasts










Audacity or ODEO for creating your own podcasts

powered by ODEO
Create and Publish a podcast at
Podcast http://odeo.com/
ODEO studio http://studio.odeo.com/create/home
a. Sign up: use your Gmail account (email address) and password
b. Record your podcast on the ODEO studio
c. Publish your podcast on the blogger



(6) YouTube - 60 great educational videos(link); embed a YouTube video to your website



(7) Intelligent agents (interact with the artificial agents)
Accuweather
Speak to me
VHost




(8) How to make a ScreenShot
PC- press "PrintScreen" on your keyboard
Mac- commend+shift+4



(9) Slideshare and Photo slides show


(10) Knowledge bases about Technology (http://kb.indiana.edu)
IT training (http://ittraining.iu.edu/)
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After class:
1. Finish and turn in your e-portfolio by Dec 12th.
2. Have a wonderful break and Christmas.

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