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Ditman/Ellis/Harlan

Submitted by sueharlan on Wed, 06/16/2010 - 09:01

EdTec 700 LMS Moodle Project- Ditman/Ellis/Harlan

Description of content

Because we don't have our own classes and lesson plans, we will be creating this course almost from scratch relying heavily on tutorials, Common Craft demos and the web tools' help pages for instruction.

Our target audience will be our school site teachers, primarily K-6 who need staff development technology training. The course will introduce RSS feeds, social bookmarking and sharing of bookmarks. The course will be designed for at least three synchronous, online meetings between instructor and class. The majority of the work the students will complete on their own using the suggested online resources and through interaction with classmates.

Lesson 1
Introduction to Google Reader

Participants will sign-up for a Google Account and Google Reader account. The instructor will present an online instructional lesson describing and demonstrating RSS feeds and how to sign-up for feeds to their Google Reader. Students will be given suggested sites from which to select feeds though they will not be restricted to these suggestions. As an assignment, students will share their sites with the instructor.

Objectives: the learner will be able to:

  • Create a free Gmail account (pre-work ... watch tutorial & create acct.)
  • Create a free Google Reader account (pre-work ... watch tutorial & create acct.)
  • Subscribe to RSS feeds (pre-work ... watch tutorial & create acct.) This meets the objective of being able to find and save links.
  • Share Google Reader RSS feeds (share acct with instructors and classmates) This meets the objective of being able to share links.

    • These activities help the student meet the course goals of loacting sites, bookmarking them and sharing these bookmarks.

    Lesson 2

    Objective: Introduction to Delicious

    Students will create a Delicious account. Using Dimdim for video conferencing, the instructor will share her desktop demonstrating how Delicious functions.

    Students will be required to create a certain number of links according to categories and share these with the class.

    The learner will be able to:

  • Create a free Delicious.com account
  • Add links and tags to the account. This meets the objective of being able to locate and tag links.
  • Share Delicious links This meets the objective of being able to share links.

    • These activities help the student meet the course goals of locating sites, bookmarking them, tagging them and then sharing those bookmarks.

    Lesson 3

    Introduction to Diigo

    Students will create a Diigo account and walk through Diigo with the instructor. Participants will be required to locate links, share sites and upload files.

    Building on weeks one and two, students will subscribe to three more feeds in Google REader and save three more links in Delicious.

    Prework: Before the first class meeting, students must complete the following:

  • Watch the into to Diigo video
  • Create a Diigo account
  • Join the Diigo group- ET 700.09 Find-Save-Share

    • The learner will be able to:

  • Create a free Diigo account
  • Join the ET 700.09 Diigo Group
  • Add links to and tags to the account
  • Annotate a page
  • Share links and annotations
  • Join other Diigo groups

    • Before the next session, each student will:

  • Use Google Reader to find three interesting new links.
  • Post them on the Google Reader forum as you did last week, with a brief reflection about how you found each link and why you like it.
  • Share three new feeds in their Google Reader account. These will show up on your Shared Items page.
  • Save three new links and tag them in Delicious.
  • Join the Diigo 700.09 Find Save Share group.
  • Save one annotated page in Diigo to the 700.09 group.

    • These activities will demonstrate that the student has been able to create a Diigo account, create links, annotations and tags, and share those links with other users.

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