Week 16 - E-portfolio & Class wrap up

Before class:
1. Edit the content of your e-portfolio by signing in Google pages creator (http://pages.google.com)
(word document for what to include in each page- please also find slides in week 14 agenda)

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In class:
1. E-portfolio: Google Pages Creator
- Link your multimedia production project
- Link your technology research project
- Re-check your e-portfolio before you turn in your project
- The URL of your e-portfolio; upload the URL of the homepage to Oncourse Dropbox (we'll do this in class)
The project is due by next Monday, Apr 28th midnight.
- e-portfolio check list (download a word document)
- extra credit opportunity (video case analysis) 5 points- please notice 2 pages at least. Please email me the file and also upload to oncourse dropbox by May 1. Please send me a gentle reminder if I havn't confirmed that I have received your extra credit assignment before May 1.

2. Overview of w301/ Announcement of w401 (slides)
if we haven't discussed technology inventory...we will also discuss here

3. Course Evaluation (15 minutes)
Please spend about 10 - 15 minutes for this survey. : ) Thank you!
(1) Go to http://www.indiana.edu/~best/
(2) Click on the left under QuizSite Students, log in using your IU User ID and password, click on the OK button to continue, and choose X's class and do the evaluation.
(3) You can scroll up and down and make changes as often as you wish. You must click "Proceed" at the end of the evaluation to submit your response. If you don't do that it won't go. And after you do that, you can't go back to make further changes. It will confirm that the evaluation was successfully completed. You can get "Help with QuizSite" by clicking on that phrase at the bottom of the page where the classes are listed.

4. Chun-Yi's selection of interesting/useful educational tools

(1) iGoogle: customize your google page








(2) Blogger









(3) Wikispaces (free for k-12 educational uses)
A YouTube video about wikis


(4) PBwiki- a wiki designed for kids (an example of a class wiki)
PikiWiki site (http://pikiwiki.com/ews/index.jsp)








(5) iTunes - access to free educational podcasts and other podcasts










Audacity or ODEO for creating your own podcasts

powered by ODEO
Create and Publish a podcast at
Podcast http://odeo.com/
ODEO studio http://studio.odeo.com/create/home
a. Sign up: use your Gmail account (email address) and password
b. Record your podcast on the ODEO studio
c. Publish your podcast on the blogger

(6) YouTube - 60 great educational videos(link); embed a YouTube video to your website

(7) Intelligent agents (interact with the artificial agents)
Accuweather
Speak to me
VHost

(8) How to make a ScreenShot
PC- press "PrintScreen" on your keyboard
Mac- commend+shift+4

(9) Slideshare and Photo slides show

| View | Upload your own

(10) Knowledge bases about Technology (http://kb.indiana.edu)
IT training (http://ittraining.iu.edu/)
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After class:
1. Finish and turn in your e-portfolio by Apr 28th, 2008 Monday.
2. Have a wonderful summer.

Week 15 Agenda: Independent work on e-portfolios

Hi everyone, This week you will work on your e-portfolio project independently. We WILL NOT have a face-to-face class meeting this week. Please use your google account to sign in Google page creator (http://pages.google.com) to add content on your e-portfolios. You can find the word document for guidelines here. (download what to include in each page). If you need my help, I will be in 2015 on Tuesday from 9:30 - 10:30. I will be glad to help anyone who has a question about e-portfolio or other issues. Please let me know (email me at cl17@indiana.edu) if you will come to see me.

Week 14 Agenda: e-portfolio and multimedia project presentations

Before class:
Please bring a hard copy of multimedia project reflection paper and upload to Oncourse W301 Dropbox.
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In class:

0. continue the multimedia presentations
Please find the peer feedback sheet in the week 13 agenda. Thanks.
Email me after you complete the peer feedback (cl17@indiana.edu)

1. Issues related to multimedia projects
(a) coypright and educational fair uses
(b) publishing videos/ photographs of classrooms
Protect kids and avoid legal issues
* Blogs - create a guess account and limit accesses
* Videos- make a DVD or VCD as a sample.

2. Overview of the 3rd project- E-portfolio
E-portfolio purposes, requirements, and steps (download the slides)
What to include in each page (download the word document)

E-portfolio will be due by Apr 28th midnight.
Please upload a URL to Oncourse> W301>Dropbox

E-portfolio "HOW TO"
(1) Organize your documents into folders; convert the docx or doc to pdf files if you want)
(2) Plan your website
(3) Create a Google account (gmail) > email your gmail account and password to your IU mail
(4) Go to Google Page Creator (http://pages.google.com or find it by clicking Google Labs tab on iGoogle)
(5) Create your e-portfolio!
Example: For an example of a portfolio, have a look at Dr. Leftwich’s website.

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After class:
1. work on your e-portfolio
2. Next week class (The week of Apr 14th) will be a lab day. We will not have official class meeting next week. If you need any help, please feel free to email me and we can meet individually during office hours or class meeting times.

Week 13 Agenda: Multimedia Production Project Presentation

Before class:
Please upload the project to Oncourse W301 Resources. You will need to create a folder for your project. You can upload the video, podcast, or URL of your blog along with other documents you would like people to review, if any, such as the scripts (translation if needed), copyright or citations. If you designed a brief lesson or handouts, upload them too. Please do remember to upload them before the class. Thank you!

In class:
1. Present the project. Please see the detailed instruction in the Week 12 agenda.
2. Peer Feedback sheet (word document) Please type in the word document and send it to your instructor (cl17@indiana.edu) at the end of the class. chunyi301@gmail.com

After class:
Multimedia production project individual reflection paper. Please bring a hard copy with you next week and also upload it to Oncourse W301 Dropbox. Thank you.

Reflection paper: 2-page double spaced; give your paper a title, and think of the questions as the guidelines to help you develop the reflection paper and not just answer the questions. You can pick 3-4 from the list; you don't need to cover all of them.

* what was the role you played in the team multimedia production project?
* what did you learn from the project?
* what was your most interesting /best experience from the project?
* what was the difficulty when you worked on the project? How did you overcome it?
* how did the scaffoldings (the tutorial website, your instructor, your classmates, IT people, other people, or other materials) help you?
* what were the parts of the final product that you would like to improve? how would you do differently next time?
* (required question) will you have your students conduct their own multimedia production projects in the near future? what might be some interesting topics/ ideas for kids' multimedia production project? what might you do differently for guiding your students to complete the multimedia production projects? If you worked on a blog project, how would you use a blog with your students or parents?

Week 12 Agenda: Multimedia project presentation preparation

Before class:
Please bring the project folder/ materials to class.

In class:
1. Please read the evaluation rubric (word) --will be adjusted based on the types of multimedia projects.

2. Each group will meet with the instructor about 6-10 minutes to update the progress, ask questions, and present the product.

3. Extra credits opportunity: technology integration video case analysis 2 pages double spaced(Instructions for the video case analysis in a word document) * 5 Extra points

After class:
Next week (the week of March 31), each group will make a presentation for about 7 - 9 minutes.

The presentation will include (A) Introduction: your target audience and the lesson you'd like to convey/teach through the video, podcast, or blog (B) Product: play the video, podcast, or show the blogs (C) Lessons you learned from the project experiences: (1) the most interesting part or valuable experiences (2) the difficulties you faced and how you solved the problems

Note: If you are working on a Movie file, please remember to "Finish your movie" (MovieMaker>Left hand side navigation bar #3 Finish movie> save to my computer) and save as a WMV file or AVI file.

To turn in the product, please create a folder with your group topic in Oncourse > W301> Resources> Multimedia folder.

Please upload the file to the folder you created on Oncourse. If you're turning in a blog project, you can upload the "URL". Thanks!

Week 11 (after spring break) Agenda: MovieMaker and Audacity

Before class:

Finish (a) project plan (b) storyboard
Create the materials needed: videos, pictures, slides, or audios.
Save all your materials in one folder in your flash drive. (You might want to save another copy in case that you accidentally lose the flash drive.)

Please post your "topic" on the Wikispaces and revise the information on the "Multimedia Production Site" page if needed. The page will be locked on Tuesday 5:00 p.m. (It means you cannot edit the group members, brief description, topic, and so on when the page is locked. But, of course, you will be able to use the links to go into your group page and edit the group page)
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In class:

Make sure you've uploaded the project plan and storyboard on the Wikispaces. You can either post the word documents or type the texts on the group page. If you have already finished the word documents but you don't know how to add an attachment, you can bring it in and I will show you how to do it in class.

Remember to bring in the materials (in a flash drive) if you've created or collected. Please also bring earphones and a microphone if you have one. Thanks!

* Grading progress
* Technology Inventory Findings
* Multimedia Production Project

(Please read the important information in the week 9 agenda)

0. Group pages of wikispaces: how do i upload files and subscribe changes?

1. MovieMaker Interface

2. MovieMaker Features
Online Tutorial Website (MovieMaker Tutorial)

3. Audacity
Online Tutorial Website is here.
You can find the software Audacity to record the narration. The video instructions on the tutorial site will be very helpful if you are not familiar with Audacity. You can find Audacity on On-campus desktops (Start> Programs> Multimedia> Audacity) or download it for free. (Google> Audacity). ** Make sure you read the "step 7" export your recording as a .wav file or .mp3 file instead of an Audacity file.

4. How to edit the video/ digital story telling in MovieMaker
How to embed all multimedia elements in blogs (please bring in your questions)

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After class:

Next week is an open lab time. You can bring in the work to do in class. I will use most of the class time to meet with each group and preview the product even if it is still under construction.

Week 9 Agenda: Creating and Collecting Materials

Before class:

1. post or upload the "project plan" and "storyboard" to Wikispaces group page by Mar 3 (Monday) or Mar 6 (Thursday). Please find the word documents in the week 8 agenda (class blog). If you're working on a blog project, please describe the project as details as you can and I will give you feedback.

2. upload your Technology Inventory to Oncourse drop box. Template is in the week 4 agenda (class blog).

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In class:

1. We WILL NOT have a class meeting this week. Please use the time to create and collect materials needed for your project. Since we've allocated the week for groups to create the materials please do schedule the time to meet with your group members and use the week wisely.

(a) images: Use the digital camera to take pictures. You may check out the digital camera in the main library Information Commons. If you're using the images that other people created for books or websites, remember to make a reference list. You will also need to use Paint, Photoshop, or other image editors to create the introduction, conclusion, reference credit slides. (If you prefer hand drawing or having something creative, you can also make those slides on paper and take a picture)

(b) sounds/ narration: You can find the software Audacity to record the narration. The Audacity tutorial site is here. The video instructions will be very helpful. You can find Audacity on On-campus desktops (Start> Programs> Multimedia> Audacity) or download it for free. (Google> Audacity). ** Make sure you read the "step 7" export your recording as a .wav file or .mp3 file instead of an Audacity file.

You can check out the microphone in the TTL (EDUC 2010) or the equipment room next to TTL. If you are doing a podcast project, it will be important to get familiar and play with audio editing software :) If you are doing a video project or a digital storying telling, you may focus more on the video clips, images, and scripts at this point and when we meet in the week after spring break, we can work on the audio recording.

(c) music: choose the music for your background music if you need for introduction, transition, ending, or some special scenes. Save it and make sure it's a .mp3 file or a .wav file. (.mp4 file will not work in the software MovieMaker)

(d) video: Create video clips. If you are doing a video project, you may need to create several video clips (For example, interviewing one student will be a clip and interviewing one teacher will be another clip). You can check out the video camera in TTL (Educ 2010) or equipment room. However, they only have limited video camera, so ask them earlier. Another option is the Information Commons at Main Library. Usually they have them in the Kencooper room ( in the basement) but you can always ask people in the Information Commons first.

When you shoot the video, make sure the video camera is held stable, you may want to check out a tripod if you need. If you are not familiar with the video camera, remember to ask a lot of questions when checking it out. :) You can also go back to Information Commons at the main library or TTL equipment room. They are usually very helpful.

(e) blogs: If you are working on a blog project, it will be okay (and great) to include other web resources but you are also required to create you're own materials. For example, you will need to create images (take pictures) and create a video clip or a audio file. They should be appropriate for the topic you choose. If you work on the blog project within a group, you may want to see if the blog hosting site supports multiple authors. (Blogger does). I've posted some information about blog hosting site on the week 8 agenda.

Note: This week I am going to present in a conference for educational technology. I will be out of town. For a few days, I may have limited Internet access. Email me your questions still, but please understand it may take me a few days to replay. :) Thanks.

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After class:
1. After spring break we will meet to edit the video. Therefore, it is important to produce the materials before next class and always save them in a flash drive. Please bring it with you next time when we meet. Thanks.