Session 1 - Jan 12, 2011


Introductions
     Craig Nansen
     [email protected]

Blended Courses
     Wiki - Web site - Blog
     Edmodo - Moodle - Blackboard

No Textbook! Why?

The "Cloud"

Paperless Course
21st Century Educators Don’t Say, “Hand It In.” They say, “Publish It!
    That's what you will be doing in this course!
     Blog post - The Innovative Educator
     http://tinyurl.com/ybckf6b

Technology integration-
     Curriculum Integrators - Curriculum Technology Partners, Technology Facilitators

Class Sylabus
     Warren's "special" rule - no electronic devices allowed!

Streaming video of the class can be found at:
http://www.minotstateu.edu/cel/ivn.shtml

Describe the use of the Wiki (PBWorks), Edmodo and *Moodle sites for this course
    PBWorks is only open to anyone who has been invited
    We need your e-mail address to invite you.
    Sandbox - you should create your own

Assignments:

Complete the Google Form at http://tinyurl.com/4njveod 

Create accounts for web based resources that will be used in this course. Report these to your instructor using this online form: <TBD - to be determined>

These include, but are not limited to: Google account so we can use Google DocsWordpress Blog (or Blogger) account, VoicethreadTwitterDiigoPBWorksEdmodoGlogsterMendeleyWeebly, and .... (more to come).

Show Voicethread and assign them to do introductions by Saturday, Jan 15th.

Voicethread

    An example Voicethread that was done just before Thanksgiving, 2009
         http://voicethread.com/?#u169072.b269444.i1413477

     An example Voicethread that has an image for each student
          http://voicethread.com/?#u169072.b285181.i1498297

    Assignment: Do an introduction using Voicethread
         http://voicethread.com/share/1647467/

Google Docs
    word processing

Agenda items for Techie Friday (example history page for Google Docs) Show Google Form survey they need to fill out by 3rd session (Tuesday, Jan 19th).

          used TinyURL - http://tinyurl.com to get these URLs (one random, one unique)
          from http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dFNMQ25mbEM4bV9QZkNrRGJlcmpFVGc6MA

     Mention Zoho Creator and Survey Monkey as well as PollAnywhere

Talk about
     spreadsheets 
          Google, Excel

Google Search
    <see notes below>

     Atomic Learning - Advanced Search

     netTrekker 

     plagiarism - search for phrases by putting them in quotes "like this"
          TurnItIn

In future sessions we will be covering more Google Apps, such as

     Google Earth 
     Google Maps 
     Google Reader (talk about RSS feeds)  
     iGoogle - portal

Notes:

Search to find all the quotes in "All I ReallyNeed to Know I Learned In Kindergarten" If you search on that title, you will find all kinds of links that want to sell the poster, or just mention it. Instead, search on a few unique phrases from the poster, like "Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you" and "Be aware of wonder" to find pages that have all the sayings on the poster. You may find a site that has many other "keepers" that you would like.When searching for lesson plans, search on both the term "lesson plan" and the topic like "North Dakota"