Class 13 - 09/28/06 (Thursday)

You should finish crop your clips on Tuesday. Today you will add
transitions, effects, titles in your movie. The length of your movie
should be 2-3 minutes. We aim to finish your movie by the end of
this class. However, if you need more time to work on it, you can
go to OIT (Rm 232) to check out the key for editing suite (Rm602)
by yourselves.

Now, you have learned the tool, but we haven't talked about how
this tool can assist in the teaching and learning process. Please
view the examples below to get ideas on teaching with digital video
and still images.
Watershed Documentary–High school science
A Living Alphabet–Elementary Language Arts
Meet the Artist–Middle School Social Studies and Art
You can also view more examples from Apple Learning Interchange.
When you view these examples, think about the following questions.
What standards in your content area lend themselves to digital
images? What learning style can be supported by the use of digital
images? What teaching strategies can be supported by using digital
images? Does it matter who is creating the image- the teacher or
student? Does it matter as far as LoTi levels?

For next Tuesday:
1. Bring your finished movie, we will be viewing your work as a class
2. Start working on your reflection for iMovie
a) Review the hardcopy of the rubrics that will be given out on 09/28.
b) On your iMove page in Google page, write a brief description of
the iMovie that your group created and provide a link to the movie.
c) On the same page (iMovie page), list 4 examples of
teaching/learning with digital images. Include a mix of video and still
examples. Use screen shots and description to tell about your
examples. You can do a search with the phrase "teaching with
digital images" and you'll find a wealth of resources, or you can also
search examples within the Apple Learning Interchange site.
d) Also on the same webpage, write a reflection on the process of
developing digital images for teaching and learning. Talk about what
you have learned and how the examples you found can be used in
your subject area/grade level.
e) Review student samples to get an idea of the type of things you
can write about. Here is another good example.

For next Thursday:
1. Publish your iMovie page before class and send me the URL for
your iMovie page. (Subject for email: iMovie_your name)
2. If you have any questions regarding the examples or making
screenshots, please come to me before the due time.

Class 12 - 09/26/06 (Tuesday)

Reminder:
(1) Bring your tape of no more than 8 minutes of raw footage
for your video.
(2) Bring any music that you want to use as background on
your video.
(3) Bring any still images you want to use in your video
(4) Hand in the evaluation form for the productivity tool
with your name printed, this form will be returned to you
after grading.
(5) We will be working with your video at the editing suite,
which is in rm 602


Today you'll begin editing your video. Your goal for today
is to import all of your raw footage and begin cropping.
Decide what (if any) music or voiceovers you want to
use and be prepared to work on them on Thursday.

Please note that your group can reserve the editing suites
on your own through OIT in room 232. Thursday will be
our last day to edit as a class. Your movies are due at the
beginning of class Tuesday, October 3.

Class 10 - 09/19/06 (Tuesday)

iMovie and Educational Videos
Public service announcements have been around forever. It is
incredible what an impact 30 seconds can have. Using video in
education has been around for a long time, but it is just in recent
years that it has become simple for classroom teachers and
children to create and edit their own educational videos. The
Apple Learning Interchange gives multiple examples of using
educational video for teaching content standards.You'll want to
review the project descriptions for this project. We will use iMovie
for editing. iMovie HD is the software available in the iLife suite on
Macintosh computers. PCs have a similar software called Movie
Maker 2.0 -- but it is not as easy to use in its existing version.
Today you'll learn the ins and outs of the software. We will edit
video during the next 2 class meetings.

For Thursday:
1. Email me your PRODUCTIVITY TOOL PAGE URL at
yichunhong@gmail.com with subject as productivity tool_your name
(Due: September 21, 10 am)

2. One of the students from each group sends me following
information (Due: September 21, 10 am):
1) name of your group members
2) Title of your project
3) Target Audiences
4) Objectives of your educational movie

3. Please remember that class will not meet on
Thursday, September 21.

For next Tuesday's class:
1. Bring your tape of no more than 8 minutes of raw footage
for your video.
2. Bring any music that you want to use as background on
your video.
3. Bring any still images you want to use in your video
4. Hand in the evaluation form for the productivity tool with
your name printed, this form will be returned to you after
grading.

More Resources:
iLife http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/collection.php?collectionID=7
iLife Tutorial http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/
iMovie Tutorial http://www.atomiclearning.com/imovie2x.shtml
A winning video entry: http://mabryonline.org/movie_html/2005-
8-INDI-Right-to-Vote.htm
Storyboarding Tutorial: http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/TechHelp/Story
boarding.html
Digital Video Resources: http://www.ivieawards.org/video_
resources2.html

Other things might be needed for capture:
1. Lapel microphone
2. Tripod

Class 9 - 09/14/06 (Thursday)

By now you are familiar with locating and customizing templates to
create newsletters, hall passes, business cards, etc. You have
also used PowerPoint to create a seating chart and Excel to create
a pictograph and an attendance/grade book record.Your remaining
tasks for the Productivity Tools Project are create a worksheet and
write a reflection on using productivity tools in teaching and learning.

PART ONE: FINDING A WORKSHEET
To find a worksheet to customize, there are two useful websites:
Discovery School Teaching Tools and Education World. Another
interesting place to find a "worksheet" is at Vicki Blackwell's website.
Just make sure that you select a worksheet that can be used for your
subject area/grade level. Don't just print out a worksheet that you
find - make sure to customize it.

PART TWO: WRITING YOUR REFLECTION
The final portion of your assignment (worth 30% of your grade) is the
reflection. Here's an example of what your reflection/webpage should
look like. Here's how you go about doing it:
Go to GooglePage. Open the page you created for productivity tools.
On this page, include links to each of your productivity tools objects
(saved as pdf files - I'll show you how to do this in class today). Give
an explanation for each of your artifacts, what you learned in the
development of the artifact, and how it could be used in a classroom.
You'll also need to include at least 3 screenshots of your different
objects (I'll show you how to do this today).Then, on the same
webpage, find 3 or 4 lesson plans and explain in detail the types of
activities students can do using productivity tools. Your discussion
and specific descriptions should focus on activities at a LoTi level
of 2 or greater. Make sure to publish the page when you are
finished.
The easiest way to go about completing this portion of the
assignment is to first talk in general about the products you
created - what you learned while creating them and how they could
be used by a teacher in your subject area. Then, locate 3 or 4 lesson
plans that use the productivity tools and discuss them in detail.
The focus of this portion of the reflection is on the ways students can
use the tools at a LoTi level of 2 or higher. There are two good places
to go to find sample lessons that use productivity tools:
1. Georgia Learning Connections
select your grade level, select "technology integration" for the subject.
Click the "Search QCC button". Then click the "Productivity" link
2. Microsoft Lesson Plans
Remember that lower grade levels may use tools like Graph Club
(for spreadsheets/graphing) and KidPix (for multimedia presentations)
instead of Excel and PowerPoint - but you can use these as examples
for your reflection. Don't forget that all of this goes onto the
Productivity Tool page with links to the objects you created.
3. iWork in the classroom
This website provides the lesson plan ideas for using keynote and
pages in Macintosh computer

FOR TUESDAY (Sep. 19):

• All portions of your productivity tools project are due at the
  beginning of class on Tuesday. You will publish a web page
  with links to pdf versions of all 9 objects and at least 3 screen
  shots, and with a written reflection before the beginning of
  class. You will email me your Productivity Tool URL to my email
  at yichunhong@gmail.com
  (SUBJECT of the email: Productivity Tool_your name)
• Hand in the evaluation form with your name printed, this
  form will be returned to you after grading.
• Preparation for iMovie project
  1. Reserve mini-DV camera
  We are starting our iMovie project next week. You need to go
  ahead and reserve cameras for the project. Please form groups
  of 3 or 4 and reserve cameras for your group by the end of the
  week. The reservation can be made in rm 232. When you check
  out the mini DV camera, please make sure that you have your
  student ID with you. You have 5 business days to keep the
  item that you check out. So, if you check out the DV on next
  Wednesday, you will need to return the camera back to OIT
  at 8am on Thursday the latest.
  2. Brainstorm your topic for iMovie project
  Please discuss with your group members of what grade level/
  subject area that you want to focus on for your target
  audience in the iMovie project.
  See some sample projects and another good sample here to get
  your brain chruning about your own ideas.

Class 8 - 09/12/06 (Tuesday)

Announcements:
1. Ourclass webpage is up. You can go there to take a look
and be familiar with other folks in our class.
2. It is strongly recommended you to complete the followings
before the class on Sep. 19

1. Newsletter/ Brochure
2. Calendar
3. Hall Pass/ Certificate
4. Name Card / Students' Name Tag

Today we will focus on Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel to create
the materials for your classroom. Some of your remaining tasks
for the Productivity Tools Project are to create a seating chart,
create an attendance/grade book record, and create a pictograph
in Excel.

PART ONE: Creating seating charts with PowerPoint
MS PowerPoint is a dynamic software tool that allows you to
create presentations. PowerPoint provides you with the
opportunity to list information, display graphics (including
animations), concept maps, and tables. Short movies, hyperlinks,
and music may also be embedded in PowerPoint presentations.
We will spend more class time on learning about PowerPoint later
in the semester. For this part of the Productivity Tools project you
will learn to use the drawing tools in PowerPoint to create a seating
chart. Don't forget that these same drawing tools can be used in
all Office applications (Word, Excel, etc.) Here are some sites which
provide more information about PowerPoint:
PowerPoint in the Classroom
Integrating PowerPoint
Using PowerPoint in the Classroom

PART TWO: Creating a gradebook/attendance record and a
Pictograph and in Excel
MS Excel is the final tool we will take a look at in the MS Office Suite
of applications. Excel is a spreadsheet application that is used by
accountants, office managers, and small businesses. It allows you
to create tabular data, work with numbers and charts in a variety
of manners. As educators, there are number of ways we can use
Excel: as a record keeping tool (attendance), grades, gather and
display data (graphs and charts), etc.
Classroom Excel Resources
MS Excel Modules
Microsoft Excel Training Course

Today I will walk you through how to create an grade/attendance
record and a pictograph in Excel for your assignments in
the productivity tools project.

FOR THURESDAY:
Continue working on your Productivity Tools project. Make sure
to check the project description to ensure that you are
completing all of the required components. In Thursday's class
you will be shown how to create a worksheet, how to write the
reflection for this project, and convert your objects that you've
created for this project to PDF format.

Class 7 - 09/07/06 (Thursday)

Working with templates to create a professional classroom

Now that you have begun to build a foundation in learning
theories, teaching strategies, state and national content
standards, and levels of technology implementation,
it is time to put together your classroom. You'll use various
productivity tools: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to prepare
materials for your class.Use the link to the productivity
tools project description to get the specifics on the
deliverables you will create.

Before you begin working on your materials, you'll sit in on
a short lesson on using templates to streamline your work.
This will help you to create your newsletter, calendar,
business cards, and certificates. Make sure to save a copy
of each completed artifact to your assignments folder on
your key drive. It will be easier for you if you name your files
hat they are (i.e. the calendar could be called "calendar.doc")

FOR TUESDAY:
Continue working on your productivity tools project. It is
due on Tuesday, September 19 at the beginning of class.

Class 6 - 09/05/06 (Tuesday)

Please turn in your response to the curriculum standards/
Georgia Performance Standard at the beginning of class today.

PART I: Learning Theories
In the article "Technologies for Teaching and Learning", you
should have solid understanding of what educational technology
is. Besides, you also touch the learning theories. In this class,
we are going to explore the theories in behaviorist perspective,
cognitivist perspective and constructivist perspective.

Part II: The Digital Generation
How would you describe your future students? What type of
learners will they be? What expectations will they have for
their learning environment, for their teachers, for their community?
You'll be teaching the millenials -- or the digital generation.
On an index card, describe your future students.

Marc Prensky is an educational speaker who discusses this
generation in great detail. If you were born after 1982 - you are a
part of this generation - you are a digital native. Most of your
teachers were digital immigrants. What does that mean for
education? For understanding learning styles and teaching
strategies? Where does instructional technology fit?

Part III: Level of Technology Implementation (LoTI level)
Once you know what content you should address for your subject
and grade level, how do you know what types of activities to
include? Look inside of an elementary school that integrates
technology into its curriculum. Using the Levels of Technology
Implementation to quantify what is going on in a classroom is a
good way to begin. You'll be referring to these levels, along with
standards, in all facets of your project work.