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=Welcome to EDU 6050 =

__ **Class Syllabus ** __ [[file:EDU 6050 Syllabus - Summer 11.pdf]]
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=**Technology Successes and Frustrations - Link to Wiki** =

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__National Educational Technology Standards (click on the icon or links below)__
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 * **Administrators **
 * **Teachers **
 * **Students **

__**Google Account (Gmail) Creation (click on the icon)** __
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__**Google Docs Practice:**__

 * 1) Using Google Docs "New... Document", tell me where you're from (i.e. birthplace, hometown, education, background, etc.), how you got to where you are and where you're headed (where you see yourself and your goals for 5-10 years down the road).
 * 2) Gather the following information from your classmates and enter the information into a Google Docs spreadsheet. Use these as headings:
 * Last name
 * First name
 * Email
 * District
 * Position
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Yrs in Ed
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Avg Stud/Class
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"># siblings
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"># vehicles
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"># pets
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"># children
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"># cousins


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Share" the documents with all class members and Patrick, and give edit permissions. **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 1.3em;">__Creating a Wiki Account__
**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 1.3em;">When there, select... **

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<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 1.3em;">__**Final Project Overview and Criteria**__
<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The final project will be worth 40% of your grade. It will incorporate software applications and skills developed through practice during the week, or others with which you are familiar as approved by the instructor.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Your project will be the development of a wiki which will be practical for either administrative or classroom that incorporates each of the tools you will be exposed to and practice with in class, plus 1 additional tool.

=== <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">__Click here to see final project criteria__ ===


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Final project choices include: **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Use IIRC data from your specific school to communicate and make available a plan for improvement to stakeholders (ex. students, parents, teachers, community) through the use of a Wiki.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Develop an instructional (professional development) Wiki for teachers to use as a guide for best practices including technology standards, policies, applications/tools, and work samples generated by you.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Project designed by the student and approved by the instructor.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Reflection Assignment 1:__**

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Click on the "Reflection Assignment 1" tab in the top left of the wiki, select "Edit", write your reflections to this article: **//<span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Speaking Up in Class, Silently, Using Social Media //,** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">under your email address **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">then click "Save". **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">__**Questions for Reflections:**__
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">What do you see as the benefits to the student? What are the implications?
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">How would you feel as a parent of a student using social media in school?
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">As a principal, what considerations come to mind regarding the use of social media in the classroom?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 1.3em;">__**Discussion Board:**__
<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Click the "Discussion" tab at the top of this page, click "New Post: and write your reflections about: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">include component="comments" page="Day 1" limit="10"
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Your general comments on the format of the first day (include suggestions/recommendations).
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Your tech //successes// and //frustrations// from Day 1.