ITEC 8630

Advanced Seminar in Instructional Technology

Georgia Southern University

Personal Learning Environments

     (you can see my PLN here)

I-Search Process

• I-Search in Emerging Perspectives on Learning Teaching and Technology
• Writing an I-Search Paper
• I-Search at Information Age Inquiry
• I-Search Process

Online Learning Units

• Concept to Classroom: A Series of Workshops -- free workshops from ThirteenEd Online
• First Year Teacher Course - Reading Rocket's self-paced, free
  online course on how to teach reading

How to Use Diigo

Web 2.0 Tools

• Web Tools 4U2Use
• Web 2.0 at Shambles
• The Fifty Tools
• Web 2.0: Cool Tools for Schools
• Web 2.0 for Teachers
• 7 Things You Should Know About
• Dr. Repman's Web 2.0 tools wiki (some overlap but lots more listed)
• Safe Web 2.0 in the Classroom (I like the depth of information here but the organization is challenging)
• Digital Research Tools

Web 2.0 Reports, Papers and Resources

• Horizon Report 2009 (downloadable as pdf version or read it on the web)
• Horizon Report K-12
• 7 Things You Should Know About
• Bloom's Digital Taxonomy (includes a link to the complete taxonomy by Churches; a shorter article can be found here)
• Digital Youth Research
• The "Digital Natives" Debate: A Critical Review of the Evidence
• Moving Toward Web 2.0 in Education (blog post with a series of comments)
• Moving Forward (wiki with lots of resources, including lists of model 21st century schools)
• Becta Research Reports on the Use of Web 2.0 (from England)
• What Will Shape the Future of Education? (interesting timeline/map format)
• 100 Great Articles from 2008 (from Jane Hart who focuses on social media in learning)
• Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 (also from Jane Hart; this is a collaborative site with votes from 175+ individuals)
• Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (report by the MacArthur Foundation)

Resources Related to Disrupting Class

• EdTech Live Interview with Michael Horn (class assignment for Week 1 of our discussion; format is QuickTime and it is audio only)
• Video author interview (also assigned during Week 1); podcast interview
• Disrupting Class home page (blog)
• Related articles by the authors
• Article from Edutopia, 2008
• Article from Education Next, Summer, 2008
• Q & A from ASCD, 2009
• Reviews of the book
• Review by Andy Zucker
• Virtual Book Discussion (held 9/25/08 in Second Life; another Second Life discussion is archived here)
• Technology Can Have a Positive Impact on Education: Deploy it Disruptively (by Michael Horn)
• Steve Hargadon interview with Michael Horn about a case study of disruptive educational innovation
• The Teachers of 2030: Creating a Student-Centered Profession for the 21st Century

Ethical Issues, Intellectual Property, The Teach Act

Quality in Online Learning

• Quality Matters (be sure to review the rubric)
• National Standards for Quality Online Teaching (NACOL)
• Establishing a Quality Review for Online Courses
• Quality in E-Learning from a Learner's Perspective
• Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning (report by U.S. DOE, long but with an excellent executive summary; short blog post with summary is here)
• Site Readiness Rubric

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) and other 21st Century Teaching Items

• TPACK overview  
• Video Overview 
• Activity Types wiki (see TPACK concepts in action; organized by content areas)
• Teaching and Learning Challenges 2009 wiki (EDUCAUSE)
• Information Age Education (IAE-pedia; modeled after Wikipedia)

Playlist

Pay Attention

Did You Know?

Did You Know 4.0?

A Vision of K-12 Students Today

A Vision of Students Today

• blog post about how the video was created can be read here
• What Teachers Must Do response by Wesch
• From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-Able

I Need My Teachers to Learn

A Brave New World Wide Web

21st Century Learning: A Crash Course

24 Hours in the Life of a Digital Native Student

The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity

Who's Watching YOUR Space?

Learning to Change

Information R/evolution 

Having Our Say (Teachers discuss 21st century literacies)

21st Century Education Leaders videos (Mobile Learning Institute)

Social Media Revolution

TED: Ideas Worth Spreading

Visual Definitions of Web 2.0 (slideshare)

2 Million Minutes: The 21st Century Solution

24 Tech Tips for Not so Techy Teachers 

A Teacher's Guide to Web 2.0 at School (slideshare)

The Future of Publishing

Some lists of videos:

• Top Ten Videos Inspiring Us to Rethink the Way We Learn
• 79 Inspiring YouTube Videos to Use in the Classroom
• 100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers
• Video Playlist from MovingForward

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