The Rockland Teachers Center and the College of Mount Saint Vincent
3 in-service credits/ 3 graduate credits
Beyond Blogs: Advanced Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom—partially online.
Students will explore new and exciting Web 2.0 tools available for enhancing classroom instruction. Students will first become familiar with the evolution and growth of the World Wide Web. Participants will then explore Web 2.0 tools that offer opportunities classrooms to collaborate and create exciting educational projects. Emphasis will be on tools and methods that allow for classes to interact with information using a variety of multimedia formats. Student safety will be a major focus of class discussions. NYS Learning Standard: MST.
Instructor: Mike Frerichs
Wednesdays, October 15, 22, 29, Nov 5, 12, 19, Dec. 3 4:00-7:30 pm.
Bardonia Elementary School Library Media Center
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
Week 1
Focus Areas/Objectives:
Understanding Web 2.0: Students will be introduced to history and meaning of Web 2.0 as well as to its importance to education. An overview of basic tools introduced in the course will be provided by the instructor.
On-line component: Students will read and reflect on the following article: O'Reilly, T. (2005, Sept 30). What Is Web 2.0? Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software (11 pp) (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html) Students will post their reflections on the class blog.
Week 2
Focus Areas/Objectives:
Web 2.0 Tools: This session will focus on the “Read-Write Web” including blogging, wikis, RSS feeds and aggregators (Really Simple Syndication, for content feeds), and social bookmarking.
On-line component: Students will read Gillmor, D. “We the Media” (2005). From The Read-Write Web. http://www.authorama.com/book/we-the-media.html)
Week 3
Objectives/Focus Areas:
Classroom Tools and Professional Online Communities: Collaboratories
Online component #3: Students will explore the University of Michigan Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work at http://crew.umich.edu/ Students will select one article or collaboratory research project at CREW and write a critical reflection to be posted on the class blog.
Week 4
Objectives/Focus Areas:
Collaboration using Multimedia: Photo, audio and video based communities. Web 2.0 tools from TeacherTube to VoiceThread. Collaborative learning activities or MMORPG (massive multiplayer role playing games): SecondLife http://secondlife.com/ and World Without Oil http://wwolives.wordpress.com/
Online Component #4: Students will explore one Web 2.0 multimedia tool and one MMORPG and post a critical reflection of the course blog.
Week 5
Objectives/Focus Areas:
Tools for students and Teachers; Course Management, Storage and Office tools: Students will explore the huge and growing base of tools available for the classroom using database collections such as WikiSource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page and Web2.0 for the Classroom Teacher.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listweb20s.html
Online Component # 5
Participant teams collaborate and work on their projects. Progress on the project will be posted on the class blog.
Week 6
Objectives/Focus Areas:
Tools for students and Teachers; Course Management, Storage and Office tools: Students will continue to explore the tools available for the classroom using database collections such as WikiSource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page and Web2.0 for the Classroom Teacher.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listweb20s.html
Online Component # 6
Participant teams collaborate and work on their projects. Progress on the project will be posted on the class blog.
Week 7
Objectives/Focus Areas:
Presentation of student projects.
Requirements for “passing” – in-service and graduate. Each student shall produce at least one proposed classroom project using student collaboration and Web 2.0 tools. Students can work as teams. In addition, each student shall provide a lesson plan and timeline for completion of the project. Finished projects shall be presented to the class in the final sessions of the course.
Attendance requirements: This course requires 45 hours of online instruction and in-class work. The class is scheduled for 24.5 hours of classroom work. Students must keep a log of their online hours with a minimum of 20.5 hours of work.
Attendance – 100% - missed time – make up hours through assignments or make other arrangements with instructor.
To make up a class or the equivalent students may demonstrate on-line work.
Participation – By this course’s very nature, participation is a given and therefore a requirement. Since lack of participation will affect the whole class, it may therefore result in a lower grade. In the case of pass-fail, the result would be a failure.
In addition to the above, students in the graduate course will submit a 3-4 page rationale paper which defends the lessons they have created. It will be similar to a research paper in that it will require 3-5 sources in addition to the classroom textbook. However, because it is a personal rationale, it may be written in the first person.