Outline of initial components of the Educational Technology class.

1. Welcome
to
Educational Technology

2. Survey
 My feelings about this class are:
 Excited
 Nervous
 Yuck! Another required class

3. Week One
 Welcome to class
 Attendance
 Your expectations
 Textbook
 Communication – UA email
 Syllabus
 Course Overview
 Combination of in-class and out-of-class projects
 Individual and group

4. Week One
 SpringBoard Overview
 News items
 Content Resources – Road map to the course
 Assignment Dropbox
 Discussions
 Grades

5. Week One
 ePortfolio
 WikiSpaces
 Requirement for class and TK20
 Detail found in Content Resources on SpringBoard
 Developed over the semester
 Rubric – Be sure to read before you begin

6. Week One
 Web 2.0 accounts:
 Dropbox – http://www.dropbox.com
 VoiceThread – http://www.voicethread.com
 WikiSpaces – http://www.wikispaces.com
 Social bookmarking:
 Del.icio.us - http://delicious.com/
 Diigo - http://www.diigo.com/
 Symbaloo - http://www.symbaloo.com/
 Etc.

7. Week One
 First Assignment:
 Due 09/16
 Complete the online Library Workshop #4 – “Internet
Tools for Academic Research”
 Pass the associated online quiz
 Quizzes are graded manually – plan accordingly
 There is a second attempt for the quiz – library staff
must reset
 Provide copy of passing score to instructor

8. Week One
 Begin ePortfolio development
 Use WikiSpaces
 Create a word cloud
 Wordle (http://www.wordle.net)
 Tagxedo (http://www.tagxedo.com/ )
 Add it to your Home page

9. Week One
 Look ahead
 Much easier to stay ahead than fall behind!