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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Introduction to Technology in the Classroom




TIE 300 Course Description: This is an introductory survey course with emphasis on technology skill development and appropriate ways to use technology across the curriculum. Students learn computer literacy and its use in education through hands-on activities, such as word processing, presentation software, graphics and instructional software, basic web design, and Web 2.0 Internet resources. Students create technology projects and discuss and reflect on effective integration strategies utilizing those technology projects in the classroom.

Students will be working collaboratively to create and design a virtual field on Wikispaces.  Here are some examples of previous students' work:

Winter TIE 300 Wikis:

Team One - McHenry County College: Eren, Cindy, & Russ
Team Two - McHenry County College: Amanda & Jess
Team Three - McHenry County College:  Liz & Lauren

Team One - Rock Valley College:  Kevin & Rhonda
Team Two - Rock Valley College:  Tomas & Liz
Team Three - Rock Valley College:  Starla, Jennifer & Colleen

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Reflective Blog #1

Students will be asked to create their own blog accounts in class on Thursday.  To learn more about creating their own account, they may take a quick tour of the process, watch a video tutorial, and/or discover more features located on the start page.

During the course, the students will post three reflective blogs.  They may be asked to respond to course readings, generate technology integration ideas, prepare an annotated bibliography, or evaluate websites, and so on.  Through this public online forum, they will help each other to better understand the issues related to technology integration.


Winter TIE 300 Student Blogs at McHenry County College:


Winter TIE 300 Student Blogs at Rock Valley College:


Here are the links to our students' blogs from the previous fall quarter:


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Monday, October 3, 2011

Recently spent a girls weekend in Chicago.  Here's a video I created using Animoto.


Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
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Chicago 2010

Here's my first video created with Animoto. I used photos from a recent trip to the Shedd Aquarium and Millennium Park. Then I added audio from Animoto's library. What fun and the special effects look great!


Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Example of a Word Cloud

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Web 2.0 Applications

The following Web 2.0 applications were investigated by our class last Thursday.  To learn more about these applications, check out my Diigo bookmarks below!
  • Shelfari:  The greatest for book lovers!  You can create a "virtual bookshelf" that includes books you've read, books you're reading, and even books you want to read.  You can also send your bookshelf to your blog.  I've included mine in this blog!

  • Pageflakes:  Pageflakes provides a "social personalized homepage". You can create a Pageflake home page for free and include "small, movable versions of all your web favorites that you can arrange as you like. Then you can share your page as a "Pagecast" with as many or as little as you like. The site also has thousands of widgets that you can add.

    tags: web, 2.0, rss, Pageflakes

  • Glogster:  One of my new favorites!  You can create your own "poster" that includes text, sound, video, images.  Easy to use and looks great!
  • WikiSpaces:  A quick way to start your own educational website for free (with ads).  If you are a K-12 educator, you can obtain a wiki without ads for free.   Can pay an additional $5.00 per month to remove adds if you are not an educator.   You can add widets and media.  They have basic theme templates available to set up your wiki - with more options if you pay for the plus or super packages.  As with most web servers, you can upload files and images.  There is also a discussion page and easy page linking.  As the site says, the visual page editor is almost "as easy to use as a word processor."
  • Edmoto:  "A private social platform for teachers and students to share ideas, files, events and assignments."  Has a variety of tools that educators will enjoy, such as polls, calendar feature, assignments and grades, and much more that I can write here.  There is also a mobile version for iPhones, iPod Touch, etc.
      • VoiceThread: "A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to naviage pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam)."  You can then share your VoiceThread with others and they can also record comments.  They can be embedded to other websites, too.
      • Ning:  Another quick application to create a social networking site.  Technology in Education at National-Louis University has created a Ning to share information about the program and offer non-graduate credit workshops.  Check it out at http://nlutie.ning.com
      • What Is Web 2.0 - O'Reilly Media:  "The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O'Reilly VP, noted that far from having "crashed", the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity."
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        Social Bookmarking

        • Diigolet | Diigo
          Easy to add tool for your browser.  Diigolet is not as feature-rich as the Diigo toolbar, but it can be set-up by simple drag-and-drop - no download or installation needed, and it works for all major browsers. Much more powerful than bookmarklets offered by other social bookmarking sites, Diigolet is a "super bookmarklet" that allows you to highlight and add sticky-notes, in addition to simple bookmarking. tags: bookmarking
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