Course Outline (approximate and may be changed)

To help you prepare for each class and get the most out of group discussions and activities, here is a tentative list of the scheduled topics. This schedule is subject to change. Please check this site or the #edci336news tag for updates.

Week 1 – January 11 – Introduction:
  • Review course outline expectations
  • Orientation to the technology
  • Teaching and learning with social media
  • Review: ISTE Standards
  • Review Privacy Tutorial before consent forms collected
  • Each week, complete your instructors’ weekly task list found under Instructor Posts for section A02
  • Watch Most Likely to Succeed Film
Week 2 – Jan 18 – Learning Design:
  • Discuss Most Likely to Succeed Film
  • Teaching and learning with social media
  • Blogging Best Practices
  • Setting up your Personal Learning Network
  • Intellectual Property & Open in Education (Remix Manifesto)
  • How to Find and Edit Images
  • Attribution of Resources
  • FIPPA, Privacy, and Consent Personal Learning Networks
Week 3 – Jan 18th – Creating Resources:
  • Video Editing
  • Screen Capture & Interactive Videos
  • YouTube
  • GUEST: Rich McCue
Week 4 – Feb 1st – Citizenship Online:
  • Privacy Safety
  • Bullying
  • Consent
  • Professionalism
  • Digital Footprint
  • Social Media
  • GUEST: Jesse Miller
Week 5 – Feb 8th – Curating and Working with Graphics:
  • Working with Graphics
  • Finding/Eval/Making/Editing/Curating
  • Infographics
Week 6 – Feb 15th  – EdCamp:

Week 7 – Feb 22nd – No Classes – Reading Week

Week 8 – Mar 1st – Learning Design Models:
Week 9 – Mar 8th – Inclusion: 
  • Assistive Technologies
  • Classroom approaches to IEP implementation of technology
  • GUEST: BCEdAccess
Week 10 – Mar 15th – Gaming and Gamification in K-12:
  • Gaming
  • Gamification
  • Minecraft
Week 11 March 22nd – Collaboration Tools and Classroom Technologies:
Week 12 – Mar 22nd – Multi-Access Learning and Coding in the Classroom:
  • Multi-Access Learning
  • Coding
Week 13 April 5th – Reflections on the Term, & Next Steps:
  • Recap
  • Google Classroom
  • GAFE
  • Classroom Websites
  • Using WordPress post 336
  • AMA – VP and 20+ year teacher