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Course Description This course is designed to help GMVS teachers gain all the necessary knowledge and expertise required to develop effective online classroom portals utilizing the edu2.0 learning management system. The course will also expose students to various other web 2.0 tools proven to be highly useful to 21st century educators.
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Course Objectives
All students will:
- Establish an edu2.0 account as a teacher at GMVS
- Create an edu2.0 portal for each of their upcoming classes
- Become acquainted with the all of the available features of the edu2.0 learning management system (LMS)
- Demonstrate proficiency in the use of the following edu2.0 features:
- Discussion Board Forum
- Quiz/Test Maker
- Freeform Response Assignments
- Edu2.0 Gradebook
- Ways to communicate with students, parents, co-workers and administrators.
- Lesson creation and adding resources
- Calendar
- Chat Room, Wikis, & Blogs
- Attendance Keeping
- Setting Policies, Copying & Archiving Classes and/or Assignments
Daily Agenda
8:45 - 9:00 Set-up
- Computers on and wireless working
- Logged-in to edu20.com and gmvstech.pbworks.com wiki
9:00 - 11:30 Instructional Time
- 9:00 - 10:45 ---> Edu2.0 tutorial
- 10:45 - 11:00 ---> Break
- 11:00 - 11:30 ---> Cool Tools Exploration
11:30 - 2:00 Workshop Time & Lunch
- Finish your Daily Goals
- Fill out your daily Exit Card
- The Exit Cards can be found in 'Assignmentst' under the 'Assessment' tab in the Summer Workshop edu20 course.
- Lunch at your convenience (I'll take mine from 12:00-12:20)
Detailed Course Syllabus (under construction...)
1) Introductions (Me: 5 years teaching online courses at CCV using Blackboard software, currently half-time Social Studies teacher and half-time tech integration specialist at Harwood Union High School)
2) Course Overview, Expectations & Protocols
- Go over agenda
- Gather in workgroups of 3
- Discuss protocol for time-keeping, tangents, questions, etc.
- Please use the discussion forum to ask questions that might come up during or after our sessions. By making these questions public we can all benefit.
3) Edu 2.0 Tutorial
- Introduction to Web 2.0 (Useful terms and Jargon) (10)
- Introduction to edu2.0 (10)
- Step Two: Creating a Class and populating it with students (30)
- Adding a schedule and rough syllabus (please add a syllabus and schedule)
- Please create a sandbox class. Use 'sandbox' and your last name as the name of your sandbox class. For instance,
- Step Three: Create a Freeform Response Question & Learn how to use the HTML editor (90)
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4) Cool Tool Exploration
5) Daily Goals for Workshop Time
- Create all classes with syllabi and schedules
- Create an engaging Freeform Response Question in your Sample Class
- Submit a brief response to your two team members' Freeform Response Assignments
- Fill out Monday's Exit card in the Discussion Board Forum
1) De-brief Monday's Class (15)
- Discussion prompt: Please go to the edu20 discussion forum titled ' Monday's Debrief' and respond to the following question:
- What are the top 3 ingredients for a good Freeform Response question?
- Questions about edu20 to discuss or add to the stack?
- Other comments? (jJing updates - need screencast tutorial makers!)
2) Edu2.0 Tutorial
- Step Four: Creating an Offline Assignment (15)
- Step Five: Creating a good Discussion Assignment (60)
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3) Cool Tool Exploration
4) Daily Goals for Workshop Time
- Create an Offlline Assignment in your sandbox class
- Create a Discussion Assignment in your sandbox class
- Submit at least two brief responses to each of your team members' Discussion Assignments
- Fill out Tuesday's Exit Card in the Discussion Board Assignment titled 'Tuesday's Exit Card'
- Create your Jing Screencast and embed it on the appropriate GMVSTechSupport Wiki Page.
1) De-Brief Tuesday's Class
- Discuss Tuesday's Exit Cards
- Questions? Updates?
- Common GMVS Protocol for Discussions
- https://lschnell.blog.uvm.edu/ENGS140/fosterls195.pdf
- Common criteria applicable to all GMVS discussion boards
- G.U.M
- Moral Conversations (to nurture and give birth and life to ideas, not to kill ideas)
- Specific Discussion Board Criteria
- Number of posts
- Type of posts
- Length of posts
- Due date for particular posts
- Reflective Essay
- Persuasive Essay
- Critique
- ???
- Online Discussion Guidelines for GMVS - notes from our class discussion
2) Edu2.0 Tutorial
Step Six: Creating a good Quiz/Test Assignment (60)
Step Seven: Gradebook (60)
3) Cool Tool Exploration
- Anyvideo (Download, Convert, Archive, and Blend Online Videos)
- Firefox Add-ons
4) Daily Goals for Workshop Time
- Create a 10-question Quiz Assignment in your sandbox class using all question types.
- Take your two team members' Quiz Assignment
Create a video-mashup using either iMovie, MovieMaker, or Jaycut.comat least two video clipsat least two imagesat least one audio/music track
- Revise and update your discussion board forum (rubric and clear expetations and instructions)
- Fill out Wednesday's Exit Card in the Discussion Board Assignment titled 'Wednesday's Exit Card'
1) Debrief Wednesday's Class
- Updates
2) Edu2.0 Tutorial
Workshop - Work on Quiz and Discussion Assignments
Step Eight: Attendance, Notes & Copying Assignments (30)
Step Nine: Calendar, Sessions, Feeds and Admin Policies (30)
Step Ten: Teachers, Students & Forums Tabs (30)
3) Cool Tool Exploration
4) Daily Goals for Workshop Time
- Thursday Exit Card
- Take teamates quiz and participate in their discussion forum
1) Debrief Thursday's Class
2) Edu2.0 Tutorial
- Step Eleven: Collaboration Tools (Wikis, Blogs, Chats, Groups & Debates)
- Step Twelve: Lesson & Resources Tabs
- Fun Tips (Updating Profile, Joining Community Forums, Guiding Development, ePortfolio, etc)
- Housekeeping and Q&A
3) Cool Tool Exploration
4) Daily Goals for Workshop Time
- Contribute to Class Wiki
- Create a Prezi presentation or Glogster page