Assignments

Common and Not-so-common Tools
Inspired by Chris Lehmann: //__Beyond Tools: Thoughtful 21st-Century School Reform__//
 * ===**__Research__**=== || ===**__Collaborate__**=== || ===**__Create__**=== || ===**__Network__**=== || ===**__Present__**=== ||
 * RSS || Wikis || Blogging || [|Twitter] || [|uStream] ||
 * [|Del.icio.us] || Google Docs || [|Comics] || [|Skype] || [|Flickr] ||
 * [|Google] || [|Moodle] || [|Podomatic] || [|Facebook] || [|iTunes U] ||
 * [|Wikipedia] || [|Writeboard] || Digital Films || [|IM] || [|Voicethread] ||
 * [|Dropbox] || [|Twiddla] || [|Wordle] || [|Ning] || Screecasting ||

**__Day 1__ Wikis**


 * **Sign up on class WIKI and post reflections.**
 * **How would you use Wikis in your classroom? Find curriculum applications of wikis in your classroom.**

**Reading**

 * =====**Text:** Resituating the Role of New Technologies in World-Language Teaching and Learning. pp1-31 Article: Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices in Technology-based Classrooms=====
 * =====**Article:** Prensky, M. (2001). “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants”. In On the Horizon, October 2001, 9 (5). Lincoln: NCB University Press=====

= = =**__Day 2__** **Podcasts**=

=Screencasting & Streaming=
 * ====**Create a podcast.** Post your creation on the Student Project page.====
 * ====**Find 1 or 2 podcasts that you like and share it with your classmates.** Post your discoveries and thoughts on the podcast page.====
 * ====**Discuss how you would apply what you have learned in this unit (podcast) in your class.** Write your reflection on the podcast page.====

** Reading **
 * ====How do you see yourself use this technology in your classroom; if you were granted access / permission to so?====
 * ====**Text chpt7 + chpt8:** Podcasting …. pp101-126====
 * ====**Article:** Kids Connecting Through Podcasts.====
 * **Text chpt10:** Real time communication pp141-152
 * __Day 3__ ComicLife**


 * **Create comic strips with ComicLife.** Post your creation on the Student Project page.
 * ** PowerPoint **
 * Present similar tools like **Makebeliefscomix or Pixton**

** Reading **
 * ** Text chpt6: ** Influence of technology on Second-Language Writing pp85-100
 * ** Article: ** Comic Strips as a Text Structure for Learning to Read

**__Day 4__ Creating Movies** with MovieMaker and other available applications
** Reading **
 * Text chpt 9 pp127-140; and Chapt 14 ** pp199-216. //Post on Discussion//

FINAL REFLECTION PAPER:
==== Submit a paper of about 3 pages containing your reflections on the course. This should be a reflection from your personal, individual perspective on how you felt the course met your needs or fell short. ====

**When writing, consider the following:**

 * ==== Talk about what you have actually done in the course and what you have learned; and what was particularly interesting? ====
 * ==== Have the concepts from the textbook and readings, and/or the projects changed your view of technology in the classroom? ====
 * ==== What “new things” have you learned about technology from this course? ====
 * ==== How are you planning to use this knowledge in your own classrooms? ====
 * ==== In what ways will what you have learned affect your teaching in the future? ====

====// **The Final Reflection Paper is your last individual assignment. It provides a meaningful feedback to your instructor and helps him improve the course. E-mail your paper to MAMBO at:** // bmambo2@hotmail.com **====