Thursday, April 3, 2008

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.

Monday, March 31, 2008

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?