Look: Concepts

2. Read: See your Blackboard site's link to the Syllabus and Assignment table.
 

Chapter One Activities

3: Ch1 - Operating Systems (6) "Flashcard Review" slides for this reading.

4: The Four Ages of Thinking: Evolutionary Layered Literacy (30)

4.5: WeDo Lego Composition - Sensors, Robotics and Programming

5: The CROP site (2). Schools build their curriculum around competencies. The world builds its curriculum around real-world questions and finding answers. Could schools do that too?

6. Web conferencing - innovative personal and class communication

7 Assesment of Technology Integration Rubric from ISTE.

Look: Technical

8. Skim: Linux OS- Overview of the Linux OS, an emerging but still distant competitor to the Windows and Mac operating systems  (1)

9. Optional Review on Macintosh Leopard operating system features - movies; text description if you need to know more about the Apple OS

10. Optional Review on Windows Vista operating system features - movies (see Windows Vista Business by logging in with 92#/pwd) ; text description if you need to know more about the Windows OS

 Evoke

11. In-class Project. 13. Wonder Web Board display (4): use a team and paper to model question discovery and response, a microcosm of the Internet and its value. Post those paper (post-it notes) on a larger display board.

12. Setup and test out your WCU GoToMeeting account to enable practicing Web conferencing.

13. In-class Project: Create a digital snapshot of yourself. This might be called Photobooth Thinking.

14. In-class Project. Create your own blog (1) and your first blog posting and a Powerpoint slide with the same information, teaching us about a favoirte instructional topic.

Differentiated Activities

Assess

• 16. Blackboard Login Find the link to and
• complete the digital literacy course-survey;
• read Getting to Know You and add your contribution. This posting can be edited later to add or change information.

Publish

Preparation and Assignments Due for Next Week