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

| View | Upload your own

(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.

Week 14 Agenda: E-portfolio (1) !

Week 14- the week of Nov26, 2007- Agenda

Before class:

1. Please bring a hard copy of your (1) reflection paper for project two and (2) individual contribution log. You can find the detailed instruction in week 12 agenda. Please also upload to your w301 oncourse dropbox.

2. Make sure you have your materials ready for e-portfolio: (Save in your flash drive and bring it to class or upload to your Oncourse>W301>Dropbox)

• A professional picture that could represent you as a preservice teacher and other pictures you might want to put in your e-portfolio
• Resume (you may want to take away the phone and address)
  
• Reflection paper 1 (.doc file or .pdf file)
  
• URL of your video: if your group hasn't uploaded the video to YouTube or TeacherTube, please skip this one. We will explain it in class.
  
• URL of your technology research paper on Wikispaces
  
• Reflection paper 2 (.doc file or .pdf file)
  
• School inventory or video critique (optional): if you have done one and you would like to upload it to your e-portfolio.
• Other lesson plans from other method classes you have created (optional).
  
• Other documents related to your field experiences (optional).
• Teaching philosophy (optional).
  
• If you are in the TAL program, please bring the e-portfolio requirement document with you and read it carefully before class.
  

3. Please let me know if you have had your group video uploaded to YouTube or TeacherTube for the extra credit. Send me the URL to me and your group members if you have it by the week of Dec 3rd.
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In Class:

(Note for the Wednesday class: we will have one group to present the technology research project for 10 minutes.)

1. E-portfolio purposes, requirements, and steps (download the slides)
What to include in each page (download the word document)
E-portfolio will be due by Dec 12th Wednesday midnight. Please upload a URL to Oncourse> W301>Dropbox

2. E-portfolio "HOW TO--Part 1"
(1) Organize your documents into folders; convert the docx or doc to pdf files if you want)
(2) Plan your website
(3) Create a Google account (gmail) > email your gmail account and password to your IU mail
(4) iGoogle
(4) Go to Google Page Creator (http://pages.google.com or find it by clicking Google Labs tab on iGoogle)
(5) Create your e-portfolio!
Example: For an example of a portfolio, have a look at Dr. Leftwich’s website.

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After class:
1. Work on your e-portfolio
2. Next week: (1) E-porfortfolio 2: More features of Google Page Creator; individual page requirements; upload files; and how to turn in your e-portfolio (2) From W301 to W401 (3) Course Evaluation