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ORIENTATION

Jan. 20

 

NO SCHOOL

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NO SCHOOL

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Skills Assessment

#1 Word

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Skills Assessment

 

#2 Excel

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Skills Assessment

#3 Internet research

worksheet

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Introduction

Reading: World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others
 annolight (Edutopia)

Video: A Vision of Students Today (Wesch) 

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Introduction

Reading: College Students Score Higher ... (Science Daily)

Graffiti boards

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High Tech High

Videos:

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Flat?

Reading: The World is Flat

(Friedman)

Flat reading Guide

Video:Did You Know (Fisch)

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Flat?

Reading: The World is Flat

(Friedman)

Reading: What Does "The World Is Flat" Mean for Education? (Edutopia)

CREATIVITY & INNOVATION

Feb. 2

 

What is Web 2.0?

Video: The Machine is Us/ing Us (Wesch)

Video: Blogs in Plain English (Common Craft)

3

 

What is Web 2.0?

Reading: Web 2.0 map(Wikipedia)

Reading: Silicon Valley Start-Ups(NY Times)

Reading: Great Expectations(NY Times)

Assignment: Life 2.0

4

 

What is Web 2.0?

Reading: Web 2.0 map (Wikipedia)

Reading: Silicon Valley Start-Ups(NY Times)

Reading: Great Expectations(NY Times)

Assignment: Life 2.0

5

 

What is Web 2.0?

Reading: Web 2.0 map (Wikipedia)

Reading: Silicon Valley Start-Up (NY Times)

Reading: Great Expectations(NY Times)

Assignment: Life 2.0

6

 

Simulations

Simulations: Games for Change 

 

Assignment: Post a review on your blog

9

 

Digital Story

Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling (University of Houston)

  • The Legacy: Be a "creator" and make a difference

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Digital Story

Practice with Photo Story program

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Digital Story

Practice with Photo Story program

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Digital Story

Create draft of digital story

Paper copy of rough draft due

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Simulations

Simulations:

BBC Interactive History Games

 

Assignment: Post a review on your blog

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Digital Story

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Digital Story

Work time to create digital story

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Digital Story

 

Work time to create digital story

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Innovation

Reading:

Meet the Whiz Kids (PC World)

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Innovation

Reading:

Meet the Whiz Kids (PC World)

COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION

MARCH 2

 

Innovation

Reading:

Meet the Whiz Kids (PC World)

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4

5

 

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Communication

 

Reading: North Pointe

9

 

Micro-blogging

10

 

NO SCHOOL

MME TESTING

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12

13

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Digital Story

Present final drafts

Sample: PBS

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Blogtopia

 

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Blogtopia

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Blogtopia

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Blogtopia

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Blogtopia

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xtranormal

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xtranormal

 

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xtranormal

 

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP

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Growing Up Online

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Growing Up Online

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Growing Up Online

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Growing Up Online

 

2

 

Growing Up Online

 

3 END OF QUARTER

 

Read North Pointe, current events questions, online notes

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piracy

copyright

etiquette

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APRIL 1

 

Simulation Nation: The Promise of Virtual Learning Activities (Edutopia)

Social Impact Games

Educational Games: (nobelprize.org)

Wikinomics

 

Reading: Wikinomics - How mass collaboration changes everything 

 

Reading: The Long Tail (Wired)

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3

end of quarter
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Reading: Blogging helps encourage teen writing (eSchool News)

 

ning/forumn

 

team

 

Video: RSS in Plain English (Common Craft

9

 

Simulations

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RESEARCH & INFORMATION LITERACY

APRIL 20

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Tools

  • PowerPoint

  • Excel

  • Internet research

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Topics

  • Who needs libraries anymore?

  • Mom, what was it like before Google?

  • Social bookmarking and tagging

  • Bibliographies

  • Product evaluation and review

    • Which digital camera should your mom buy?

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  •  

    Revenge of the Experts: The individual user has been king on the Internet, but the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward edited information vetted by professionals. (Newsweek)

     

  • Searching for the Best Search Engine: A global effort is underway to invent a better way of finding things on the Web. Could Google be vulnerable? (Newsweek)

  • Chuck Knol: Why Google's online encyclopedia will never be as good as Wikipedia

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Copy-free images & sounds

 

Fair Use Guidelines for Multimedia

Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers

 

 

Resources

 

Communication and Collaboration

 

Readings

  • Facebook's Roar Becomes a Meow: Putting ads in front of Facebook users is like hanging out at a party and interrupting conversations to hawk merchandise (Newsweek)

Unsupported tools

  • Zoho: Online productivity and collaboration applications

  • Weebly: Create a Web site and a blog

  • Thumbstacks: Making and sharing presentations

  • Bubbl: Online brainstrorming

Social Networks

 

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