Teaching & Technology Across the Curriculum

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
Theories of technology
Theories of teaching writing
Reading comprehension
Learning styles
Learning and cognition
Computer-mediated communication
Multiliteracies / multimodalities
Difference: cultural, socio-economic, race, gender

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:

What is the nature of information?
Where does it exist?
How is it organized?
How can it be obtained?
How does information differ from knowledge?
What is the relationship between them?
To what extent does information give structure to reality?
To what extent does information reflect reality?
How is information related to the arts and sciences — to language, music, mathematics, and biology

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:
a
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

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