Friday: Podcasting Thursday: Emerging Technologies Sources Thursday Wednesday: Group Project on Assessment Working together using this wiki Group members Report Out Sources Wednesday Sources Extra Meetings Drafts

 

Friday: Podcasting

Eva's stuff on Wet Paint wiki: http://www.nwcetwc2006.wetpaint.com/page/Podcasts+%28Content%29

 

Podcasts

 

• Standford Store on iTunes; Berkeley; and Education Podcast Network - free educational podcasts
• http://macitude.academic.bcc.ctc.edu/weblog - BCC's podcasting project
• third

 

Marc Lentini's info: http://flightline.highline.edu/mlentini/newtech/podcast/

 

Thursday: Emerging Technologies

 

• Issue: Information Literacy - check with your nearest librarian!
• Open Source - look for free tools out on the web. http://www.opensource.org
• Issue: Copyright http://creativecommons.org
• Productivity/Content Creation - Open Office http://www.openoffice.org (free "office" applications); Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net (sound editing software). Also http://writely.com (word processing) and http://jumpcut.com (basic video editing and hosting/sharing)
• CMS - http://moodle.org
• Communication tools - Used Skype in f2f class for student at a distance; Trillian to aggregate IM clients, especially for students; video conferencing - Webex http://www.webex.com/
• Fake email address for institute: NWCET2006@gmail.com (password: NWCET4TEST)
• Wet Paint Wiki - www.NWCETWC2006.wetpaint.com & nwcetwiki.pbwiki.com (also Web Notes)
• GOOD IDEA! Create an email address for the whole class to use and set up the blog with that address as the administrator.
• pinkmonkey.com - "Cliff Notes" online. (!)
• dropload.com - for sharing large files. Can save large file on for 48 hours. (Cool!)

 

Sources Thursday

1. Source 1 : http://www.grokker.com
2. Source 2 : http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0553.pdf
3. Source 3 : http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html (Open Courseware - a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
4. Source 4 : http://www.hitl.washington.edu/home/ - UW's Human Interface Technology Laboratory
5. Source 5 : http://skype.com - free phone! VoIP (voice over internet) technology. Can "phone" computer to computer (Skype to Skype) or computer (Skype) to a "landline" or mobile phone.
6. Source 6 : http://blogger.com - good site to set up your blog
7. Source 7 : http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page - "open content" books
8. Source 8 : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - multi-media content for sharing

 

 

 

Wednesday: Group Project on Assessment

 

Working together using this wiki

 

Group members

• Rob
• Vici
• Zach
• Dan
• Mark
• Janice jadams@highline.edu - Janice's EdTech (new wiki page) blog http://janiceadams.blogspot.com

 

Why is assessment important? Rubrics

 

• Objective/standard meaning for grade
• Student know expectations before starting
• protection for teacher against student grade challenge at the end

 

 

Student Group work (for Problem-based Learning and Assessment--both formative and summative)

 

• Accountability to group: peer evaluations; peer sign-offs for participation
• second
• third

 

Softskills

• What are they?
• How do we assess them? (Can they be assessed?)

 

New Page Team Building Materials

 

Report Out

(end of Tuesday)

We looked at our group work as an example of PBL and Assessment. We used ourselves as group members to test group process. We found we needed to:

*define our desired outcomes

*have some facilitation (perhaps assign roles)

*assign tasks on a timeline

 

Sources Wednesday

1. Source 1 : http://flightline.highline.edu/socc/ Janice - All Assessment info, incl. rubrics
2. Source 2 : http://ghc.ctc.edu/syllabi/ Dan - Gray's Harbor CC all syllabi from template; Assessment tools http://ghc.ctc.edu/assessment.htm
3. Source 3 (Terryl) http://nwcet.org/products/tools.asp & http://www.cite-tn.org/ (List of soft skills with less then fully form assessments)
4. Source 4 : http://content.monstertrak.monster.com/resources/archive/jobhunt/softskills/ (Janice: I found the quiz not to be very user-friendly. The questions were not written so that the scale directly made sense. Try it and see what I mean.)
5. Source 5 : (Zach) http://www.cio.com/archive/011505/tl_numbers.html (Janice: This is interesting. Technical skills are no longer the only requirements for employment)
6. Source 6: (Zach)http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/5370.html (Janice: This is another interesting article)
7. Source 7: https://www.cco.purdue.edu/Articles/Article-SoftSkills.shtml (Janice: This is brief and to the point)
8. Source 8: (Zach) http://web.lemoyne.edu/~robertaj/professional%20writing%20sample.htm - (Janice: This is a very interesting study on Soft Skills As A Social Phenomenon. )
9. Source 9: (Dan) http://www.cite-tn.org/itacad_downloads.htm (Tips to forming groups)
10. Source 10: (Dan) http://www.thecasefiles.org/Authoring.htm Develop your own Problem Based Case Studies Template

 

 

Sources Extra

 

• Fun! Father Guido Sarducci on "The 5 Min. University" on youtube.com (click the URL below to get to search - lab computer wouldn't take me into the video) http://youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_sort=relevance&search_query=5+minute+university&search=Search
• Good tech articles on this page today: http://www.mg.co.za/tech.aspx
• Interesting sounding book - Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution:Transforming Cultures and Communities in the Age of Instant Access, by Howard Rheingold. Basic Books, 2002. Author's website www.smartmobs.com
• NWCET site http://www.nwcet.org/programs/workingCon/default.asp
• Our track page http://www.nwcet.org/programs/workingCon/tracks/instrucTech.asp

 

Source Name	Page #	Quote
Encyclopedia of Stars	44, 46	"The stars are the heavens"

 

Meetings

 

 

Who	When I can meet
Jesse	M-F, 8am-5pm
Chris	Anytime after 2pm
Dana	Saturday, 5pm
Pat	Sunday, 4pm-8pm

 

Drafts

 

Draft 1

Draft 2