EDU221OrientationWeeksAgenda

//- - - a work in progress - - - check back often - - -// =Orientation Weeks= Project(s): MEL digital product

[|The logo and mascot] of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler is based on the Canadian Inuit inukshuk. The inukshuk is a stone marker that has been used by the Inuit to hep guide through the northern Arctic terrain for centuries. It has become a symbol of leadership, cooperation, friendship, and the human spirit. The Olymic mascot is named Ilanaaq which means 'friend' in the native Inuit Inuktitut language. || * bring a postcard || (full class for each Block) || # introduction activity (full class with both Blocks together) || # collect entry forms At least one project this semester has to be in each of the 3 software packages (full class for each Block) || # blog check-up (1/2 class for each Block) || # multiple intelligences vs. learning styles > Full class for each || # (Block 1: how and where to upload and file limit size) "Lest we forget" (1/2 class for each) || # your blogs so far. . . getting the titles right, making your labels visible, screening comments, making paragraphs
 * **--Date--** || **--What we will do in class today--** || **--What you need to have completed before coming to class today--** ||
 * W || Practicum Orientation
 * Th
 * 1) index card
 * 2) review syllabus
 * 3) discuss Fires and why it's a text
 * 4) look ahead at QR homework for Tuesday
 * 5) issue with small DVDs
 * 6) what's your backup strategy?
 * 7) safely ejecting pen drives
 * 8) look at [|MEL WebQuest]
 * 9) hand out "entry forms" ||   ||
 * F
 * 1) set up a new blog for this class
 * 2) how blog entries are graded
 * 3) add blog URL to class artifact page when Mergatroy the Moose gets to you
 * 4) iMovie demo and how it relates to GarageBand and Comic Life
 * 5) demo of project file vs. product file
 * 1) introduction to concept of digital story; using storyboard
 * 2) hand out Type I and Type II printout
 * 3) using tabs in Firefox
 * 4) take survey
 * 5) MEL partners announced
 * 6) MEL team building || * do steps 1, 2, and 3 of the [|MEL WebQuest] (don't worry about the blog part, save the graphic and write your text in a Word document and bring them to class)
 * bring your completed entry form
 * read Introduction, Preface, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2 from //Fires in the Bathroom// ||
 * T
 * 1) how blog entries are graded
 * 2) a look at step 7 of [|MEL WebQuest]
 * 3) MEL rubric; questions on what the MEL model is? what it means?
 * 4) copyright and photo credits; music and video clips
 * 5) digital stories and the rubric
 * 6) [|Airset]
 * 7) [|del.icio.us] || * do steps 4 and 5 of the [|MEL WebQuest]
 * look ahead at step 7 of the [|MEL WebQuest]; feel free to start early
 * write a QR for Chapter 1 and a QR for Chapter 2 of //Fires// ||
 * W
 * 1) one more blog issue . . . HTML message
 * 2) project files vs. product files
 * 3) how and where to upload and file limit size
 * 1) remaining time with partner(s)--be sure to practice making a product file and uploading it, even if it's just a test file || * work on your MEL product (the "rest" of step 6 in the [|MEL WebQuest])
 * set up a [|delicious] account
 * look ahead at step 7; feel free to start early ||
 * Th
 * 1) Comic Life--the .pdf option and the paper option
 * 2) talk about when you present your MEL project for judging
 * 3) your "audience" and your judges are two different populations
 * 4) do you want to do a group presentation or an individual one?
 * 5) earphones/ headsets
 * 6) Q&A on [|MEL WebQuest] project
 * 7) HOMEWORK (AFTER your presentation is viewed by judges): MEL reflections page--fill it out on your computer, print it out. Block 1 slide it under my office door by 10am Monday morning (before Beth's class). Block 2 bring it to class Monday
 * 8) adding a citation for //Fires// to your blog
 * 9) //Fires in the Bathroom// assignment while you're in the schools
 * 10) positive specific feedback (you'll need this for Friday)
 * 11) (Block 2: Next Project: Emerging Technologies Team Presentations)
 * 12) remaining time with MEL partner(s) || * do step 7 (part 1) of the [|MEL WebQuest] ||
 * F 9/11
 * 1) judge MEL products || * MEL presentations must be finished and uploaded to artifacts wiki before class
 * bring a printout of the text of your MEL project (script/ transcript/ of your audio recording or movie; if movie has text on the screen bring a printout or screenshots of that text; printout of Comic Life--black and white is fine)
 * bring headphones/earbuds if you have them so you can individually listen to MEL productions as you judge ||