Hello Class, 

Welcome to EDW 647 at Millersville University, Summer 2010. The class is divided into morning and afternoon sessions, each day. During the first session, we will talk about the new and current tools and technologies available online. During the second session, we will spend time building on the tools and working on incorporating them into your individual lesson plans. Below is the outline which is subject to some change based on the overall needs of the class.


Monday
introduction of Internet technologies and tools
introductions of class
what do you use and what are your students using?
what is the Internet
servers and storage
searching and being searched
delicious
google/ bing (images/ scholar) – information inundation
what the twitter? how could you use this to communicate with parents and colleagues around the world (professional development)
the good bad and the ugly of facebook/ myspace – what you need to inform your students and their parents
what to do and what not to do


Tuesday
blogger
ning
youtube and streaming videos
skype


Wednesday
pages
flickr/ photobabble
wikis
google docs and collaboration
zeemaps


Thursday
html – understanding the basic language of the web
building your own website
sitemeter
glogster


Friday
consolidation


Week of July 18
individual projects – due July 23 at midnight