Syllabus
Assignments
Weekly Readings and Face to Face Discussion Facilitation
One of your weekly assignments will be to post responses / reflections on the readings that you are doing. These responses should focus around the three themes of the course: Community, Identity, and Design. Not all readings will address all themes, so it is not a question of commenting on each theme with each reading. The idea is for you to start to build up a strong theoretical foundation for the way technology should be used in teaching and learning and the implications of various technologies. You will also be asked to respond to the responses / reflections of your classmates. Here are the deadlines and details:
- Monday (by 5 pm) - Post your reflection to your blog, it will automagically be posted to our course Pligg site.
- Tuesday (by 5 pm) - Read reflections of your classmates, pick three (3) that you think are interesting / provocative / need more discussion, vote for these three reflections and write a response about why this reflection earned your vote.
At least one week this semester your group will be asked to take the top vote getters on the Pligg site and facilitate an in-class discussion. To the degree it is possible, you should focus the in-class discussion around the themes of the course (community, identity, and design). How you run the discussion is up to you. You can be as creative as you like, and draw upon technologies (either ones we have discussed in class or not) to help you. You will need to check the Pligg site after 5 pm on Tuesday and then organize your discussion in time for Thursday's class. If you need things (materials, etc.) from Cole and I make sure to request them ASAP. We will do what we can to accommodate you. You should anticipate approximately one to one and a half hours of discussion, so plan accordingly.
- Listen to class podcast
- Watch this video putting some context behind Web 2.0
- Create your Penn State Blog
- Post your personal introduction on your blog
- Create an account at the 597C Pligg site
- Read "7 Things you Should Know about Social Rating"
- Add your Blog to the Pligg site
- Create a blog a post
- What does disruptive technology mean to you
- Go back to the 597C Pligg site and vote on the individual posts on disruptive technologies that you feel should form the basis for week 2 discussion
Week 2
- Face to face welcome
- What this course is all about -- the three themes
- Introductions
- WTF is disruptive technologies -- mashed up from our perspective aligned with students' highly rated definitions
- Reactions to the first set of assignments -- What sense of the others in this class do have after a week of virtual interaction? Community, how did you portray your identity, and how do you think you might reconsider design of learning environments based on your experience thus far
- Team organization for weekly presentations
- Lecture: Enabling the New Classroom Conversation
- Conversation about how our themes are impacted
- 15 minute Podcast
Week 3
- Review logistics
- Presentation: Real World RSS and Personal Content Management
- Set up google reader
- Subscribe to feeds from this course
- Subscribe to other feeds that are related
- Use Feed2JS
- Reading Discussion: Three Themes
- In teams you will craft the beginning of definitions of the three key themes (community, design, and identity) as they relate to disruptive technologies. These should reference specific pieces from the content associated with the class (readings, podcasts, blog posts, etc)
- Please list the names of your team members on your post.
- Podcast/Google Presentation
Week 4
- Assign Technology Presentation
- Meet your technology: Google Docs
- Discussion of readings
- Post your team's updated take on the Three Themes from last week
- These should reference specific pieces from the content associated with the class (readings, podcasts, blog posts, etc)
- Podcast
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