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Second week activities, September 23 to29, 2009

Check List- Second week.Points

Description Criteria Comments Points

Up to25

1. Contributed to acollaborative meta-reflection

See TIPCS rubric (Title,Ideas, Presentation,Collaboration, Sentencequality)

Up to15

2. Recorded anduploaded to Interneta short video to beused in a course

The video is availablevia a URL from theparticipants home page

Up to20

3. Published a video inBB and created agrounded videodiscussion with it.

See TIGER rubric (Title,Illation, Generative,Enriching, Readability,

Tiger postings)Up to20

4. Posted in a blogfindings fromexploration of anICTE of interest

See TIPS rubric (Title,Ideas, Presentation,Sentence quality)

Up to20

5. Posted in thereflection bloglessons learned fromweek 2 activities

See TIPS rubric (Title,Ideas, Presentation,Sentence quality)

Totalup to100

Overall comment

PurposeThis week we will learn lessons derived from the exploration of interaction tools

studied last week and we will build knowledge concerning video-based interaction

and other technologies selected by participants.

Week facilitatorMs Shira Hedgepeth, x 8611, hedgepethsh (PRONTO), sckaplan (SKYPE)

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ActivitiesThe following set of activities can be implemented in the order suggested or in other

order, at your convenience. What matters is to complete all of them before the

week ends.

Part 1. Weekly meta-reflection (25 points)A meta-reflection is an illation of ideas that threads prior reflections. In ICTE this

exercise implies to review lessons learned by all participants from last week

activities and to generate new ideas as educators who want to develop experience-

based knowledge.

Collecting gems from Week 1 lessons learned

Use the button to find and press the VIEW link in

. You can review prior postings in several ways, these are

two very useful:

1. If you want to see what was posted per day, use Calendar hyperlinks to

have access to interventions posted on specific dates. First ICTE course week

started on September 16, will end September 23, 2009.

2. Use FILTERS to select authors (all, one by one).

Read each of the postings from week 1, copy and paste to your text processor thoseideas that call your attention. At the end of the review process youll have a

collection of gems that will help in your meta-reflection.

Contributing to , a collective meta-

reflection

Use the gems you collected reviewing week 1 lessons learned to add value to a

collaborative creation in [Course blogs View Meta-reflection wiki Week 1 meta-

reflection]

Press the Meta-reflection wiki View link. It will take you to the wiki HOMEpage. Press the Week 1 meta-reflection link under the Site Navigation section at

the right column.

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If you are the first person contributing, use your gems to support your ideas

on how to improve teaching with the use of forums, blogs, and wikis, as well

as with other ICTEs explored in week 1.

If you are not the first contributor, read what others have said, edit what can

be necessary with the idea of adding value to this collective creation. Includenew thoughts, thread old postings, bring new opportunities or challenges in

regard to ICTEs studied.

Include icons, pictures, links, use colors or indentations, to promote good form.

Use theTIPCS rubric to self-assess quality of this collaborative creation.

Part 2. Record and upload to Internet a short video to be used

in one of your courses (15 points)

Recording a short video

A short video means no longer than 10 minutes, which is the size limit permitted in

YouTube. If you do not have webcam available, stop by the computer lab at 203

OKelly Library and use one there.

1. Press the WEBCAM ICON (right bottom side of the screen) and then use

CAPTURE to open the camera interface. Keep the microphone near you.

2. Press the [Record a video] button to start recording. Deliver a message to an

audience of your interest. Use the STOP button to finish. Use the PLAY button

to review your recording.

3. Use the FILE SAVE AS sequence to save the file that you want to post on

Internet. QUIT when done.

Uploading your video to Internet

Before uploading video to Internet, decide where to do it. Use

P tools or click on the links in this Learning Unit to explore information availableabout video-publishing services such as School Tube, TeacherTube,

YouTube. If you are not familiar with any of these video services, use thecorresponding tutorial, create your account if needed, and upload your video to the

site.

Once you have uploaded your video to the selected site, copy the URL

where it is available.

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Go to your Home Page in Blackboard [Course tools Home Page] and

include the link to your video as one of your favorite links. Comment what is

the video about.

Selecting videos from InternetThe above mentioned sites are some of the places where you can get videos from

Internet. Use the corresponding SEARCH feature. In addition, there are other digital

video repositories that may be of your interest, for instance:

Academic Earth, http://academicearth.org/ free academic video coursesfrom leading universities .

TED conference, ideas worth spreading, http://www.ted.com/index.php ,shows talks related to technology, entertainment, design, business, science,global issues.

Vimeo, http://www.vimeo.com/ ,a respectful community of creative peoplewho are passionate about the videos they make.

Use YouTube, ShoolTube, TeacherTube, or any other video digital repository to

find at least one video worth discussing in one of your courses.

Part 3. Setting up video discussions on Blackboard (20 points)

Publishing in BB a video available on Internet

When you have found on Internet a video of your interest, you will be able to

include it in BB by using the icon [HTML bracket] in the enriched textinterface. Use http://screencast.com/t/CjqQ0GkX to see an explanation in the

context of YOUTUBE.

Copy the embedded code from the video you selected.

Press REPLY on the initial posting of the Week 2 forum: Discussing about

videos to open a new discussion thread.

In the content area of the message include the HTML embedded code by

pressing the icon and pasting the code. Press again the icon. You

will see the video you selected.

Press the SUBMIT button at the end of the page.

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Discussing video episodes with your students

Research (Nemirovsky and Galvis, 2008) shows that grounded discussions matter 1

when you want to build knowledge from videos. That is, video-based discussions to

be effective should be grounded in the specifics of the video case.

Press REPLY to the discussion thread where you pasted your video episode.

In the Message area write a grounded discussion seed to invite your

students to reflect and debate the video you selected. Use the Subject

area to include a relevant title.

Review at least another video episode and the corresponding discussion

seed. Press REPLY to comment on the proposed intervention.

Use the TIGER Rubric to self-assess quality of your two postings.

Part 4. Exploring an ICTE of your interest (20 points)

Choose an ICTE to explore on week 2, individually or in groupThis week you have at least three alternative ICTEs to explore. See which one is of

your interest.

Option 1: Explore ITunesU

If your students can benefit from audio or video casting to mobile devices, take

some time to review the opportunities in ITunesU. In P

tools iTunesU as well as in this Learning Unit you will find informationabout how to download iTunes U and several video tutorials.

Option 2: Explore an ICTE of your interest

If you have not decided what ICTEs to explore through the course, please do it right

away. Press to investigate ICTEs in each of the five categories.

Take into account that some of them will be taught by course facilitators (see the

first column of the course program, page 3), so do not include them in your

exploration plan.

Option 3: Explore with a friend an ICTE of mutual interest

Press on the Who knows what spreadsheet link at the beginning of

area to find out what ICTEs will be explored by your small group

1 See summary at http://teachscape.com/html/ts/nps/pdf/CCSM-Spring2003a.pdf

and full article at http://www.springerlink.com/content/j278w660604j2176/

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partners; talk with them, and make a choice. Use

https://blackboard.wssu.edu/@@EBC4C1F08323EA8CD16D320264EA8A55/courses/

1/CETL-ICTE/content/_829607_1/WhoKnowsWhat.xls to open the Who knows what

spreadsheet from here.

Scavenger hunt of the weekThe goal of the hunt is to find out educational uses and strategies to make the best

from an ICTE tool you have selected.

Basis steps

Use the information and links provided in about the tool you

selected for this week.

Install the program (if needed).

View corresponding video tutorials, or surf the help system, to get acquainted

with the tool.

Capture with Jing or ScreenR elements worth sharing with your colleagues

take note of questions or problems that you cannot solve.

Educational uses of this tool

Use A tools to find out what others have said concerningeducational uses of the tool you are exploring.

Google Scholar will help finding scholarly literature.

Kartoo will help finding published documents concerning the tool.

Merlot will help finding educational materials where the tool is learningobject or resource.

Share your findings in the Exhibit blog

Press the View link in the (Course blog View in Exhibitblog) to share you findings concerning educational uses and strategies to make the

best from an ICTE tool you have selected. If this was a join venture with a colleague,

this will not excuse each of the partners to share his/her findings.

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Use JING to explain verbally and capture visually, and in no more than 3

minutes, what you did and what you got from the tool you explored. (5

points)

Press New Entry link to start a new blog post. Name it with Week 2:name of the tool you explored

Your work: Paste the URL of the video capture you prepared with JING

Your educational reflections: What insights did you get concerning how to

improve your professional practice with tool explored.

Your technical insights: What tricks or rules of thumb did you uncover

Uses the TIPS rubric to self assess quality of your blog posting. (20 points)

Part 5. Lessons learned from Week 2 activities (20 points)Use your word processor to prepare a reflection on week 2 activities. What did you

learn from the experience? What was worth doing and what not? Why? What could

you use in your our teaching? What needs to be expanded, reviewed, or

reconsidered in the future?

Post it in the Reflection blog. Use the TIPS rubric to selfassess quality of your blog intervention.

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