EDTC+605

=__**EDTC 605: Multimedia I**__= (8/29-10/23/2011)
 * **Course Description** Course Description: Examines principles and techniques for developing and evaluating use of multimedia in learning environments. Topics include development, delivery, universal design, assistive technology, open source, audio, video and graphic creation and editing, creative commons, and accessibility.

==**Week One: Introduction to media and social networking **==
 * Course Overview** This course explores the value of using media in teaching and learning. Adding sound and visuals to lessons helps students to better understand concepts. It is important to teach students to produce their own media files to display new knowledge and gain technology competence. You will evaluate a variety of tools that can help extend learning. Understanding visual literacy and representations help students grasp concepts better than text only explanations. Geospatial literacy is a way to help students comprehend geography concepts, place and meaning. Blogging and Wikis allow insertion of images, movies and sound files that enhance both presentations and student work. Open-source software offers a large number of applications that enable students to produce their own media for school projects. Emerging mobile devices can display and create media files and will become a mainstay of classroom computing in coming years. All areas in this course help students to develop greater understanding of content knowledge, 21 st century skills and technology mastery. ||

Assignment 1: Digital Portfolios
After reading about digital portfolios and reflective self-evaluation of work, create a proposal for a digital portfolio project. Share ideas about what you would include in your class instructions for a student portfolio: Child Development Portfolio
 * Include four proposed artifact items - names and summary of contents (projects from your content area)
 * Reflection question(s) that you would pose to students for each portfolio item.
 *  Discuss the value of portfolio uses.

==**Week Two:**** Multimedia Theory **==

**Assignment 1: Interactive Whiteboard **
In order to understand the benefit (perceived) of interactive whiteboards you will observe use of a whiteboard in a classroom you have access to and collect data on uses observed and related by the instructor. If you have no access to an interactive whiteboard, please search for Smart or Promethian board use videos and observe what you find in these videos. Read the following articles and respond to the following questions.
 * Record your notes from the observation
 * You can use [|__this simple 3 column notes template__]  with some look fors or places to collect your thoughts. please do not feel you HAVE to use this method, but look at the behaviors of the students and teachers as evidence of effectiveness.
 * Chart your Thoughts [[file:Activity IWB research.doc]]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do they advance the process of learning?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Are they cost-effective?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the effective practices that must be coupled with IWB adoption?
 * ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.diigo.com/list/mwacker/iwb-605__] ==

==**Week Three:****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Visual Literacy and Data-visualization **== ====**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Project – 21 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">st <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Century Lesson Plan **==== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Throughout this course you will apply what you have learned with authentic activities that can be developed for your classroom. In this activity you will incorporate 21 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">st <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> century skill into your curriculum. There is also the opportunity for peer feedback that may provide additional ideas. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 1: Envision introducing 21st century skills into your curriculum. Relate at least four skills from the 21st century learning skills reading and share a lesson idea (not a complete lesson plan) that will help your students to gain mastery of one or more of these skills.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Cell Phone Pol**l
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 1: Create a poll using polleverywhere cell phone survey tool <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0118c7; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.polleverywhere.com/my/polls/new__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Include 4 questions, include multiple choice and short answer questions. Here are ideas to use questions for each level of Blooms technology: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0118c7; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/5/j5j/psy002/MCQ.html__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0118c7; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00002166.shtml__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 2: Post the survey: include instructions on where to dial and what to text to answer questions. Have your peers or students take the poll over a three day period. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 3: Present a screen print of the poll responses after 3 days and discuss the following Activity Polls (Google forms) Poll #2 (Google forms) Poll #3 (Survey Monkey)[|Click here to take survey]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Your comfort level using this technology, did you run into any challenging areas using the tool?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How students would respond to this type of survey? What are some benefits and limitations of using such a tool?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Share an idea you have on using this type of survey in your teaching.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Activity 1 Project:Teaching Visual Literacy **
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teaching visual literacy is an important 21 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">st <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> century skill that should be adopted by students. They need the skills to critically evaluate the multitude of images available to them. In this activity you will create a lesson plan incorporating visual literacy skills. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 1: After exploring the reading about visual literacy, create a lesson "idea" for your preferred age group of students that includes teaching visual literacy skills through examination of several photos related to a curricular topic - to help them to better understand the topic. The idea should include the process narrative, objectives and a sample of what a student work sample might look like. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 2: Make sure to introduce image vocabulary and concepts. (If elementary school, choose a higher grade as K-3 will not be mature enough to understand all of these concepts.) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 3: Include as many of the following questions as possible in your instruction, not all may be relevant in every assignment. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Content <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-What students observe? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-What images mean? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-What was the purpose? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-How do images relate to what is known or read? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-What is the context of the image? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Who is the intended audience? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Purpose <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Can you tell who commissioned the work? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Do you see any evidence of bias? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-What mood or emotion the images provoke? How is this done? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Any symbolism or metaphor used in the image? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-What does the photo tell you about history or society? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-What values are conveyed? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Cultural or social meaning? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Evaluate for intended or unintentional bias? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Aesthetics <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Do you see evidence of purposeful composition or camera angle? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -What style and technique is used? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-How is color or filtering used? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Any manipulation from original image? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Activity 2 Discussion: Share Image Resources **
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 1: Share image resources and digital editing tools that you use to support your curriculum. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 2: Share lesson ideas that you use in your class that incorporate images or teach visual literacy ideas or require students to create their own images to represent ideas. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 3: Create a class list of quality resources, tools and curricular image use ideas. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 4: Reflect on how these tools or ideas can be applied to different levels and curriculum areas. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Step 5: Share any area of difficulty in personal or student learning and methods used to alleviate these issues with peers.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Developing a visual representation of a data-set creates meaning of the information. Learning how to creating this visual representation so the meaning is appropriately conveyed can be challenging. In this activity you will experiment with different programs used to create visual representation with a couple of data-sets. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Examples: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here is a set of data on SAT test scores <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0118c7; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d08/tables/dt08_144.asp#content__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And class size <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000fc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d08/tables/dt08_066.asp__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The relationship using raw data in two data sets is hard to grasp. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are the same data sets combined and displayed in two different charts <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000fc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/10/do-we-need-more-teachers/sat-scores/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000fc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://thomaslotze.com/projects/class_sizes/index.php__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">These visual representations make it easier to understand the correlation between small class size and achievement score. The visualization also identifies that there are outliers that do agree with the overall trend. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 1: Using Microsoft Excel, Open Office spreadsheet, Google Docs spreadsheet or other spreadsheet/charting software, chart a set of data from your school or classroom. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Experiment with several charts and graphs until you create a visual representation that portrays information from the data in an easily usable form. Experiment with colors, background images or textures, fills and other visual elements to enhance the communication you are trying to display. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 2: Present it with an explanation of your process, what information trends you discovered and how well you feel you did conveying this information on your chart or graph. Discuss areas of challenge and how you worked through them. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 3: Respond to your peers data representation. Ask questions on the process and outcome. Share what you are learning about data visualization- IN CLASS Cool House Fat Wallet - Info data visualization 10/15/11 Green Through the Ages - Info data visualization 10/15/11
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Activity 3 Project: Data-visualization **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Assignment Four__
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Show and Tell of “new” technology tools/resources (minimum 3)- 6 points <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Next week present visual Literacy Lesson /Tool and chart

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Assignment Five:__
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Present a complete (TPACK) student lesson using Mind Mapping /Timeline tools, techniques- 12 points <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presentation of materials to class(6 pts) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Prezi Lesson and Sanitation plan 10/10/2011

Week Six and Seven: Open source software II
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Assignment Seven:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Open Source Research Project (10pts) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The open source movement is growing because of the social context which programs are developed and supported. Becoming aware of the numerous open source applications available with educational applications may help schools struggling with budgets. However, there can be downfalls when using open source applications. Developing a thorough understanding of what the open source movement can provide in an educational environment will help avoid the downfalls. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 1: Thoroughly research, examine, and evaluate the open source movement. Focus your research on Social Constructivism; history and development of open source; philosophy behind open source. Present the pro and con arguments for open source uses in a school setting. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 2: Present your information in a 5 page paper or equivalent presentation in Voicethread or other presentation software, movie, podcast or your choice of alternative presentation method. An APA work cited with at least six sources must accompany whichever format you choose. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This project will become an artifact for your final portfolio.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It isn’t practical or advisable to think you should change all educational applications to open source applications all at once. Start with one or two applications that can support a curricular project. Starting small will provide a great opportunity to really examine the pros and cons of each application. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 1: Search for an open source tool that can support a curricular project in your classroom. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 2: Identify: the level, subject and project or lesson you would use the tool with <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In class: Share this summary with your peers. Discuss the benefits and challenges of incorporating open source software with your students and peers. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Open source Programs
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Classroom uses of open source tools **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the benefits and or drawbacks of tool
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">methods you will use to teach the tool
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">how this will support learning

** Final Project Description: Multimedia Integration Summary **
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 1: Summarize what you have learned in this course. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 2: Create a Voicethread ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #001beb; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://voicethread.com__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">), Prezi, ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #001beb; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://prezi.com__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">), Glogster ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #001beb; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://glogster.com__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) or any other creative mixed media presentation format to convey the important concepts you have learned during this course. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 3: Share your thoughts on why including media is so valuable to teaching and learning. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 4: Share your project with the class. Give your peers feedback on their presentation. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This project will become an artifact for your final portfolio <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Betty's class work page)