When you have completed your assignments, please submit your portfolio and team project here.

Assignment One

Complete by April 4 | Deeper Dive Inquiry: Technology Tutorials and Evidence of Learning | Value 30% 

This is an independent project.

Using the educational technology tutorial list, select at least three tutorials to complete. For each tutorial, you should reflect on the technology and its application to teaching and learning, present evidence of your learning in the form of multimedia artefacts that you created as part of the tutorial (where applicable). Evidence of learning may be in the form of screenshots of finished works or works in progress, photographs, video, text, personal reflections, lists of resources, etc. This will result in at least three blog posts shared on your WordPress portfolio.

Please use the category ‘Free Inquiry’ for this work. The following rubric will be used for evaluation of your work.

Assignment Two

Complete by December 3 | Weekly Reflections | Value 30%

This is an independent project.

For each of the big ideas that we discuss in class, you are expected to capture your notes, reflections, and resources you found useful. A minimum of seven blog posts documenting reflections from the class are required to be shared on your WordPress portfolio. Please feel free to use multimedia as part of these reflections, share digital resources you created in class, take screenshots, and reflect on what you learned. Be creative and experiment with documenting your learning in novel ways that go beyond text, including audio, video, visuals, etc.

Please use the category ‘Weekly Reflections’ for this work. The following rubric will be used for evaluation of your work.

Assignment Three

Ongoing | Educational Technology Resource Development – Educational Technology in your Teaching Area | Value 30%

This is a team project, and your group has been assigned based on the teaching area you have designated as your first choice.

Two milestones to note:

  • October 8 for preliminary report
  • November 26 – submit video summary

This team-based project involves working with a group of students in the class who share your teaching area. The goal is to investigate and assess educational technologies suitable for teaching in the area you plan to teach.

Early in October, each team will present a preliminary report through a 5-10 minute presentation in class about their teaching area, what makes it unique, and what potential benefits and challenges they see for using educational technology to support teaching and learning.

By the end of the term, you will be expected to showcase your learning via a 8-10 minute video. This final project is intended to capture your groups’ more considered and researched findings into the most appropriate and impactful applications of educational technology in your teaching area.

Each team will prepare one video, and everyone is expected to contribute to the video. Group members can take different positions and tackle different aspects of the presentation, but all roles should be made clear if students do not appear or are heard in the video. Please feel free to be creative with this project, and consider the use of screencasts, video presentations, podcasts, dramatization, simulation, animation, etc.

Your final project can be guided by following prompts:
  • What have you found to be the most impactful applications of technology in your teaching area?
  • What are the pros, cons, and risks for teachers and learners?
  • What are some of the strategies, best practices, and tips regarding your findings?

Please use the category ‘Educational Technology Presentation’ for this work.