Course Calendar
Please note that this calendar is designed to be flexible: we may make changes along the way, depending on your interests and the needs of the class. You are responsible for knowing about — and adjusting for — any changes. Professional conventions also ask you to alert us ahead of time if you will be missing class on a day when you are scheduled to present materials to the workshop, or to participate in workshop activities.
Week One: Introductions, Key Terms, Course Goals
Monday
Introductions, Key Terms, Course Goals
Wednesday
A brief history of teaching and learning technologies, especially in English Studies, Literacy, and Technical Communication
Friday
Lab Day
Week Two: What do we know about reading & writing across the curriculum? How do we know it? How should we teach it?
Monday
Reading: Schultz, “The Teacher & The Overhead Projector”
Due: one-page reading response and Teaching Philosophy
Some contexts for our work together:
Purposes of education
Wednesday
Teaching technologies in context: “HTTP: The Internet’s Multimedia Courier”
Friday
Lab Day: Setting up teaching blogs
Week Three: “A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies“
Monday
Reading: New London Group, “A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies”
Background: PEW/Internet: “Teens and Technology“: Part 4, “Communications Tools and Teens” and Part 5, “Communications Choices”
Due: one-page reading response
Wednesday
Borgmann’s questions:
Due: teaching blog entry: teaching philosophy
Friday
Lab Day
Due: Technology & learning autobiography
Week 4: Can Literacy “Move On”?
Monday
Reading: Evans, from Literacy Moves On: Popular Culture, New Technologies, and Critical Literacy
Due: reading response in your teaching journal
Wednesday
Course-management systems overview: Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT
Friday
Lab Day
Week Five: “Great. How will you measure that?”
Monday
IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts
Michigan’s K-12 Curriculum and Standards
Wisconsin Model Academic Standards
Due: teaching journal
Wednesday
Exploring Moodle
Friday
Lab Day
Week Six: Teaching and Learning with Multiple Media
Monday
Due: post to Moodle on Monroe’s chapter
In class: reviewing the discussion prompts and responses via David’s Moodle: chapter from Race, Writing, and Technology in the Classroom
Wednesday
Due: second post to Moodle on Monroe’s chapter
Review the discussion prompts and responses via Chuck’s Moodle: chapter from Race, Writing, and Technology in the Classroom
Friday
Lab Day
Week Seven: Teaching diverse learners: who are the students in your classroom, and how can you help them succeed?
Monday
Reading: from Monroe, Race, Writing, and Technology in the Classroom, continued, and state standards
Due: post to Moodle on state standards (Rick and Ed’s Moodle)
Wednesday
Reviewing discussion prompts and responses via Moodle on state standards
Friday
Lab Day: preparing for week 8 discussion responses via Curt’s forum (Moodle or WebCT); Nic’s Adrian’s, Michael’s TBA, and your teaching blog
Week Eight: Teaching & Learning with New Media
Monday
A reflection on Moodle, contextualized with your chapter 4, “Using Forums, Chats, and Dialogues” and your reflection on using technology with a “social constructivist pedagogy” (refer to your Moodle philosophy handout)
Wednesday
Preparing project proposals: brainstorming
Friday
Lab Day: preparing project proposals: drafting
Week Nine: Project Research and Proposals
Monday
Project possibilities:
Web-based case study
Web-based integrated unit plan
Digital video or audio content lessons
Documentation project for teachers
Due: teaching blog that reflects on your project proposal and process
Wednesday
In class: project proposal critiques, feedback, and editing
Friday
Lab day: proposal editing & revising
Week Ten: Planning Weeks 10-14
Monday
Planning workshops, feedback, and project iterations for weeks 10-14
Due: project proposal
Wednesday
Project development
Friday
Lab Day
Due: project update via teaching blog
Week Eleven: Project Development
Monday
Project Development
Wednesday
Project Development
Friday
Lab Day
Due: project update via teaching blog
Thanksgiving recess 11/16-11/26
Week Twelve: Project Development & Writing New Media
Monday
Book activities and reflections: Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition
Wednesday
Writing New Media, continued
Friday
Lab Day
Due: project update via teaching blog
Week Thirteen: Project Workshops & Previews
Monday
Project workshops & previews
Wednesday
Project workshops & previews
Friday
Lab Day
Project workshops & previews
Week Fourteen: Project Presentations and File Transfers
Monday
“As Julia Roberts puts slides up on the screen, students take turns interrupting her and telling her just what she was about to ‘teach’ them.” (Review of Mona Lisa Smile)
Wednesday
Project Presentations and File Transfers
Friday
Project Presentations and File Transfers
Finals Week: Due Monday 12/17 @ 5:00 p.m.
Course Portfolio with Cover Letter
Portfolio materials should be designed with your teaching or your professional portfolios in mind:
Final project materials w/ letter of transmittal
Collected teaching journals
Annotated teaching materials reflections
Lesson plans