October Schedule



Week 7—Creating Pedagogical Websites
UIUC/UAB Collaboration Week 4 
Tues.,
Oct. 4
UAB has no class this week as they are on their one-week internship
Group and class discussion of readings
Consent form for CMC Research
In-class Demo and discussion of several good tools for creating custom websites.

 Tools of the week
Blogger
IMCreator
WIX
Weebly

 Technical Review Sign-up Sheet

Homework:
Create a website to share with classmates in class on Thursday.
Group Meeting 3 (Oct 7-10)
Thurs.,
Oct. 6
In-class Tasks:
  • Further development of websites
  • Adding cool tools
  • Sharing of results from classmates
Homework: 
  • Group Meeting 3 (see above)
Week 8—Let's get Augmented
UIUC/UAB Collaboration Week 5 
Tues., 
Oct. 11
UAB has no class AGAIN this week--Wed. is a holiday over there.
Group Meeting:  No group meeting this week
In-class Tasks:
  • Group exploration of some Virtual Reality gear and research.
Readings:
Very cool 60 minutes feature on Artificial Intelligence
Homework: 
Thurs.,  
Oct. 13
 In-class Tasks:
  • Just came across this morning:  Scholar (not a video chat tool, but interesting!
Homework: 
Week 9—Theoretical foundations of TEPBLL
UIUC/UAB Collaboration Week 6
Tues.,
Oct. 18
In-class Tasks:
  • Discussion of reading assigned last Thursday
  • Discussion of the video tools examined last week
  • Discussion of possible final projects.  These websites may give you some ideas:
  • REMINDER:  First set of Technology Showcases are NEXT CLASS!!!
  • Everyone must look at the Global Nomads Group, then look at one other from the list below
  1. http://uni-collaboration.eu/
  2. http://www.globalschoolnet.org/
  3. http://www.kidlink.org/
  4. http://www.tilaproject.eu/
  5. http://www.european-teachers.eu/
  6. http://dots.dpsk12.org/stories/storyReader$165
Homework
  • Refine first draft of project for discussion on Thursday
  • Begin preparing for group meeting 4 (looking for your resources, see below))
  • Group Meeting 4: (Oct 21-24) 
Thurs.,
Oct. 20
In-class Tasks:
Tools of the Week (word clouds!)
108 ways to use Word Clouds and 40 Ways! and 10 tips and ESL specific.
Another Sample Technical Review: Livemocha

 Homework: 
Week 10—
UIUC/UAB Collaboration Week 7
Tues.,
Oct 25
In-class Tasks:
  • Discussion and activities related to Group Meeting 4 and "readings"
  • Q&A
  • Look at Word Clouds from last week.
Tools of the Week!  Examination and Practice with wikis: Pbworks & Wikispaces
Optional Readings on this topic:
Homework: 
  • Group Meeting 5 (Oct 28-31)
  • Work on 2nd draft of project (for in-class on Thursday)
  • Reminder:  The new due date for Technical Reviews is Nov 11th
Thurs.,
Oct.27
In-class Tasks:
Homework:









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