FINAL PRESENTATION
Our class final will be held Wednesday, December 16 from 5:45-7:45 pm. Here is the description of the final presentation you will be giving: FinalPresentation.doc

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Final Project
For this project you will be choosing a technology and designing a project for your class in which the students will be using this technology themselves. There are many possibilities of free technologies you can use - or come up with one on your own.
Familiarize yourself with this worksheet to become familiar with the aims of the project: EffectiveTechProject3.doc
• Google Earth
Here are some resources to help you familiarize yourself with Google Earth:
Google Lit Trips
Google Earth Outreach (with tutorials - a good one is "Create a Narrated Tour")
Working_with_Google_Earth.doc - a helpful worksheet
• Voicethread
Here is a link to Voicethread- they've got a lot of tutorials and examples here.

Internet Communications Project
This is a project to give you some experience creating a website or social network that you could use in a classroom. There are three different technologies you may choose from. Poke around and see which one you prefer!
• Google Sites (example)
• Wiki (pbworks) (example)
• Ning

Here are some great examples of using wikis in education


Google Tools
Google Calendar
Google Docs
Google Groups
Picasa
Google Notebook
Google Maps

Multimedia Project
How to make a podcast podcast by Group 1: podcast project.m4a
Movie and podcast examples can be found here:
Previous IP&T 286 Projects
(you will need to enter Username: ipt28x and Password: ipt28xstudent)
Digital storytelling examples from a school district in Kentucky
Educational podcasts
University & College podcasts

Documents you will need for your movie/podcast project:
CopyrightGuidelinesForProject.ppt
iMovieRubric.doc
PodcastRubric.doc

Web 2.0
The Machine is Us/ing Us (video)
Classroom 2.0 (a Ning network of educators using Web 2.0)

Copyright and Fair Use
TeacherTube
Tutorial videos:
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
Documents worth saving:
Administrator Copyright Checklist.pdf
Copyright Guidelines for Teachers.pdf
Creative Commons sources:
Flickr Creative Commons (use the advanced search, scroll down, and click on “creative commons”)
Wikimedia commons
Freeplaymusic
Fotolia (regular copyrighted stock photography, but cheap enough that you can afford to use it)

Blogs and Personal Learning Networks
Create a blog for free with Blogger or Wordpress
You can add some widgets to your blog
Also, enhance your online learning network with Google Reader
Here is a link to an interesting list of 100 education-related blogs

Syllabus
The course syllabus is available here as a Word Document: Syllabus286sec3.doc
and as a PDF: Syllabus286sec3.pdf