EDU221Block2Module1

EDU 221 Block 2, Module 1:All classes are 9:15-11:35, MWF, Computing Center Room 104 unless otherwise noted

Projects in this module:
 * [|MEL WebQuest]
 * Classroom Management Textbook
 * Student Sample

Resource: how to cite sources for digital media in this clas

M Sept. 17 || # [|are you the next Khan Academy?] W Sept. 19 || # bookmark lineup F Sept. 21 || # follow up on double highlighter
 * **Date** || **What We Will Do In Class Today** || **What You Need To Have Done Before Class Today** ||
 * Class 1
 * 1) exit ticket tally
 * 2) points and feedback on iPad presentations
 * 3) a look back at your peers' feedback
 * 4) overview of rest of semester
 * 5) big projects and smaller pieces
 * 6) 3-2-1
 * 7) Digital Story
 * 8) what's your CM nightmare?
 * 9) using ComicLife
 * 10) product files and project files
 * 11) [|MEL WebQuest]
 * 12) exit ticket: photo release forms || * email your iPad reflection to Dr. Theresa by noon Sunday (yesterday) ||
 * Class 2
 * 1) [|social bookmarking and delicious]
 * 2) [|other social bookmarking sites]
 * 3) audio thoughts
 * 4) [|Step 3 of MEL WebQuest]
 * 5) how to find the presentation for Step 5
 * 6) shift into CM textbook mode
 * 7) classroom management textbook intro
 * 8) brainstorm contents (individually)
 * 9) what are you most concerned about in classroom management that you'd like to see addressed in a book on classroom management
 * 10) what are things that are "obvious" to you but that should be addressed in a book on classroom management for others who might not know
 * 11) sort and categorize (with partner)
 * 12) starting our table of contents (whole class)
 * 13) guest presentation by "Our Librarian," Janet Brackett
 * 14) look at double highlighter exercise coming up (hand out packets)
 * 15) switch back to MEL mode
 * 16) announcement of MEL teams
 * 17) [|2 x 2 x 20 Timeline and Contract] || * [| Steps 1, 2, and 4 of MEL WebQuest](there are 2 blog entries that go with these)
 * (we will do Step 3 in class) ||
 * Class 3
 * 1) classroom management table of contents finalized
 * 2) talk about going to the reference area; what new items do we need?
 * 3) what are the connections between chapters? are there good pairings?
 * 4) your task for you and your partner(s) by last Wed. of module 1
 * 5) interview with educational expert that you admire (due at beg. of module 2)
 * 6) finding a cool tool OR make an iBook for your textbook chapter
 * 7) selecting partners (1 team of 3)--can't be same concentration, current team of 3 can't be on new team of 3, can't be MEL partner
 * 8) A look at Blackboard
 * 9) Intel CD
 * 10) other technologies for performance task (see Google Earth and Maine Memory Network homework for Wed)
 * 11) More on MEL
 * 12) anonymous presentation if possible
 * 13) Comic Life product file possibilities (and digital story)
 * 14) supposedly your judges are all around the world and would view your submissions independently but . . . as a group or individually? || * do double highlighter exercise of chapter 2 of Classroom Management textbook (don't forget to bring the highlighted handout with you)
 * go to reference section of library and look through the table of contents for 2 different CM textbooks; flip through the pages of one and glance at headings; make a list of items that we missed that should be included in our CM textbook
 * [|laptop check--do you have all the software you need?]

//[|(WIP: Steps 6 and 7 of the MEL WebQuest)]// //(WIP: CM textbook chapter)// || M Sept. 24 || # "left behind". . . the laptop charger with my apologies
 * Class 4
 * 1) SAMR from Step 5--[|what is it?] how does it relate to Type I and Type II? what about TPACK? do you need it and why or why not?
 * 2) how was Step 7? Who did you pick?
 * 3) movie making--building on comic and audio experiences
 * 4) storyboards
 * 5) brief intro to student sample
 * 6) [|What It Is, Hamlet]
 * 7) [|Pirate Prezi]
 * 8) taking good notes while you make the student sample (the Process section of your WebQuest)
 * 9) diversity activity
 * 10) housekeeping
 * 11) iPracticum site -- need notetakers for each content area team to upload
 * 12) postcards from Orientation
 * 13) note time change on Oct. 5 and addition of seminar with Beth (due to Columbus Day)--both in CC104
 * 14) CM Textbook Chapter: team names needed and "list of topics" based on yellow stickies and your own thoughts (I will use it as a checklist but it doesn't have to be published as part of your textbook)
 * 15) work session
 * 16) MEL with your partner
 * 17) post the .pdf product file of your comic from Friday to the artifacts wiki
 * 18) [|laptop check with Dr. Theresa]
 * 19) if you and your partner are thinking of a digital story, be sure and talk to Dr. Theresa || * [|Step 5 of the MEL WebQuest](there's a blog entry that goes with this) [this was moved from Friday]
 * [|Step 7 of the MEL WebQuest](there's a blog entry that goes with this)
 * is your glossary linked to the artifacts page?

//(WIP: CM textbook chapter)// //(look ahead at Wednesday's homework)// || W Sept. 26 || # feedback sandwich
 * Class 5
 * 1) judge numbers
 * 2) MEL presentations
 * 3) starting your glossary
 * 4) time to work on CM textbook with partner and/or work on student sample
 * 5) exit ticket (MEL reflection) || * MEL presentation ready to go and linked to artifacts wiki (Step 6)
 * bring a printout of any visible text from your student sample to turn in to Dr. Theresa right before it's your turn to present
 * pick one of these 3 technologies to explore for now (you'll get the other 2 later)--pick one that might help you with your performance task if you're still looking for a good technology
 * explore Maine Memory Network ( there's a blog entry that goes with this)
 * explore Google Earth (there's a blog entry that goes with this)
 * explore Inspiration (there's a blog entry that goes with this)

//(WIP: student sample)// //(WIP: CM textbook chapter)// || F Sept. 28 || # [|MEL conclusion] and feedback
 * Class 6
 * 1) how to use feedback to improve work (if you want) without totally re-doing the projects; what if partner doesn't want to?
 * 2) more about feedback sandwiches
 * 3) [|conjunctions] and [|conjuctive adverbs] in feedback
 * 4) avoiding I love, I like, I thought, I felt, . ..
 * 5) the difference between pointing out an area of improvement and telling someone how to improve it
 * 6) peer feedback on rubrics
 * 7) any Excel issues? do all the columns fit in one page across?
 * 8) ongoing edits on rubrics, especially as you finish your student sample; bring new & improved versions on Monday
 * 9) time on glossaries; be sure to at least start your irony and sarcasm entries
 * 10) time with CM teams; have a conversation with Dr. Theresa about CM Textbook Chapter "list of topics"
 * 11) exit ticket: multi-scales for CM and student sample || * bring printouts of both your rubrics from Dr. Grace's class (the product and the presentation rubrics of your performance task)
 * post your "list of topics" for your Classroom Management Textbook Chapter to the artifacts page
 * complete [|the MEL reflection] (link on the bottom of the page) and email it to Dr. Theresa (note, where it asks about the "contract" that is referring to the 2x2x20 paperwork you filled out with your partner before we started)

//(WIP: student sample)// //(WIP: CM textbook chapter)// || M Oct. 1 || # what kind of feedback would you like on your student sample?
 * Class 7
 * 1) student sample presentations
 * 2) reminder about Friday's schedule
 * 3) glossaries if time
 * 4) field trip to the photocopier in the Ed Center (to make copies of rubric feedback) || * student sample should be linked to class artifacts wiki
 * bring printouts of your 2 rubrics to class and turn them in to Dr. Theresa right before it's your turn to present
 * bring a printout of any visible text from your student sample to turn in to Dr. Theresa right before it's your turn to present

//(WIP: CM textbook chapter)// || W Oct. 3 || # one more student sample F Oct. 5
 * Class 8
 * 1) [|NETS-T] and you (your student sample)
 * 2) [|mobile access of the web news update]
 * 3) Classroom Management Textbook feedback by Wednesday teams for other Wednesday teams; time to work on chapter for Friday teams
 * 4) remember time change for Friday's class
 * 5) irony; humor in the classroom article
 * 6) glossaries if time || * classroom management textbook chapters should be ready to go and linked to artifacts wiki for the Wednesday teams ||
 * Class 9
 * 8:00 - 10:20 ** || # Mission Possible: Digital Citizens
 * 1) relating Mission Possible to your CM presentations
 * 2) determine CM presentation sequence in module 2
 * 3) need to make CM chapters viewable by non-members; need team names
 * 4) how to give chapter feedback
 * 5) look at homework while in the field
 * 6) October 13 iPad presentation opportunity
 * 7) October 19 [|Diversity Conference] || * all final edits (based on feedback) should be made to CM Textbooks for Wednesday teams
 * classroom management textbook chapters should be ready to go and linked to artifacts wiki for the Friday teams
 * read chapter 6 ("Video") in the Wes Fryer digital text //Playing with Media;// explore at least 4 of the links in the chapter; write a blog entry listing the top 4 things you learned in this chapter (one or two sentences per numbered item is plenty). Then write a paragraph (just a few sentences are fine; feel free to write more) on how you might incorporate video in one or more of your lessons for your unit for Dr. Grace's class. Title the blog entry "Video Thoughts" and label is "TI." //(email Dr. Theresa before 7am today if you would need a Sunday at noon deadline for this chapter 6 reading and blog entry)//
 * Explore the other 2 technologies that you didn't explore earlier
 * explore Maine Memory Network (there's a blog entry that goes with this)
 * explore Google Earth (there's a blog entry that goes with this)
 * explore Inspiration (there's a blog entry that goes with this) ||


 * while in the field: || * read chapters 3-10 of //Fires in the Bathroom// and pick a reading response to complete by 8:15 on the Monday that Module 2 starts
 * interview an "educational expert" that you admire about the topic(s) of your classroom management textbook chapter; [|fill out the interview report]
 * ask your mentor teacher (and other teachers if you want):
 * what do they do on the 1st day (besides all the administrative paperwork)
 * what is their ice breaker/ how do they get to know students' names
 * how do they establish their learning environment
 * NOTE: there is no writing assignment that goes with this; bring your information back to class on Oct. 29
 * Friday teams for the classroom management textbook project need to give feedback to their Friday colleagues by Sunday Oct. 7 at 6pm. Final edits (based on feedback) should be made to CM textbook chapters by Friday Oct. 12 at noon
 * any corrections, edits, improvements you want to make to blog entries or projects . . . when done, come see me in person to get work reassessed (office hours Monday 1:30-3:00 should work for your schedule or email me for an appointment)
 * attend the Diversity Conference and write the assigned blog entry ||