Course+Schedule


 * AMLA 604: ** **__ Tentative __** ** Course Schedule **


 * ** Day ** || ** Topic ** || ** Reading Assignment ** || ** Activities/ Projects ** ||

** Saturday, **
 * July 24th ** || ** Introduction to course

** Let’s talk Web 2.0 and some applications # Wikis What is a wiki? || ** Text: ** //Resituating the Role of New Technologies in World-Language Teaching and Learning.// pp1-31 || ** Sign up on the course’s wiki on //Wikispaces// ** || (Part 1) Teacher beliefs (Part 2) Understanding the Digital Natives || ** Article: ** //Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices in Technology-based Classrooms//
 * ^  || ** Theoretical Background **
 * Text chpt3: ** The Digital Natives…pp24-30
 * Article: ** Prensky, M. (2001). //“Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants”//. In On the Horizon, October 2001, 9 (5). Lincoln: NCB University Press || ** Journal entry ** ||
 * ^  || (Part 3) Overview of the TPACK Theory ||^   || ** Journal entry ** ||

** Sunday, **
 * July 25th ** || ** 1. Podcasts/ Vodcasts **
 * 2. ** Present similar tools like Voki or Voicethread || ** Text chpt7 + chpt8: ** Podcasting …. pp101-126
 * Article: ** Kids Connecting Through Podcasts. || **__ Project 1: __** create a podcast (Hands-on activity)
 * [presentation] **

Streaming || ** Text chpt10: ** Real time communication pp141-152 || Hands-on activity using USTREAM [demonstration]
 * Journal entry ** ||
 * ^  || Screencasting
 * Journal entry ** ||
 * ** Monday, **
 * July 26th ** ||
 * 1 ** ** . ComicLife **
 * 2. **** PowerPoint **
 * 3. ** Present similar tools like **Makebeliefscomix or Pixton** || ** Text chpt6: ** Influence of technology on Second-Language Writing pp85-100
 * Article: ** Comic Strips as a Text Structure for Learning to Read

|| **__ Project 2 __**** : ** create comics || **__ Project 3: __** Create a movie (Submitted by e-mail) ||
 * [presentation] **
 * Journal entry ** ||
 * ** Tuesday, **
 * July 27th ** || ** Creating Movies ** with MovieMaker and other available applications || ** Text chpt 9 pp127-140; and Chapt 14 ** pp199-216
 * Article: ** Chapter10: //Technology in English Language Learning and Foreign Language Instruction// from Roblyer, M.D. & Edwards, J., (2005). Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching (Fourth Edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
 * [presentation] **
 * Journal entry ** ||
 * ** Final Assignment: **