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1. Course Overview: Learning Outcomes/Expectations
= = ====Investigate the role of technology in the future of education and learn how to apply new concepts to classroom and distance instruction. ====

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 * [[file:janisonline/The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies.docx|Download]]


 * a. Are you a Digital Native or a Digital Immigrant? **




 * b. Let's learn from a Digital Native. **

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**c. What are your expectations for this course? **
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*Note: This poll may not always be live because the poll has to be "pushed" in order to receive results.

**//a. The Modern Epidemic //**
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 * Full URL to see expanded size = [|Sir Ken]

[|Maryland Online Self-Assessment for Teaching Online]

Computer skills: Multiple tabs/windows, download videos, email, blogs, wikis, upload documents, use search engines, answer student basic terminology questions, etc.

**c. Assessing Your Students' abilities as online learners **
--Your students know about the 3 Rs. --How do they do with the 4 Cs (Communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity)? --[|Online Learner Readiness Survey from UNC]

=3. Planning =

**//a. What technology can be used in Adult Education for teaching? //**
(See yellow handout)

**//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">b. What technology resources would enhance your instruction? //**
= A quick overview of technologies on the horizon


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">The National Education Technology Plan, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology - []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Improving Adult Literacy Instruction: Options for Practice and Research -[|http://sites.nationalacademies.org/dbasse/adult_literacy/#.Ua-YjUDU8ct]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">NMC Horizon Report > 2013 K-12 Edition - []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Technology Outlook for Community, Technical, and Junior Colleges 2013-2018: An NMC Horizon Project Sector Analysis - []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) - http://mkoehler.educ.msu.edu/tpack-101
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Partnership for 21st Century Skills []

**// c. Cell phones -- Making them work for you! //**

 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Class Pager - [] Send a text message to (415) 692-6284 with @silverce as the text message. That will "enroll" people in the group.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> How does ClassPager work? **

It's just 3 easy steps!


 * 1) First, as a teacher, you add your class name to the system, and they generate a free ClassPager code for you.
 * 2) Share the unique code with students. Anyone who texts ClassPager with this unique code will be "enrolled" in the class.
 * 3) Now any messages that you send from ClassPager will go to everyone who is enrolled! If they reply, you can start an individual conversation with them. As a teacher, you only see their name and never their phone number.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Question of the Day or Daily Reminder/Note

 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Questions that can be asked: || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Examples of reminder or notes: ||
 * * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We missed you in class today. Will you be coming tomorrow?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Please bring __ to class tomorrow.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Do you want the teacher to send you messages on your phone?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Do you have any children?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Are you practicing English?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What are you doing?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Are you speaking English?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What do you do after class?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What did you eat for breakfast this morning? || * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">homework reminder
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">math factoid
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">language factoid
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">motivational message
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">class cancelled notice ||

**//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">d. Speech to Text //**
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">(Learn to use at www.youtube.com/googlevoice)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Google Voice - Your audio inbox
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|http://voice.google.com] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Obtain a phone number that you can give your students instead of your personal phone number. Then you can forward their calls to any other phone number you’d like to use. Google Voice provides interface where you can play their phone messages, see their messages transcribed and even download the message as an audio file. Ideas:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Learning in Real Life – Students call in and re-tell how they used in their everyday life the language or concept they learned about in class
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Pronunciation or reading practice – Students call in and read a paragraph or a word list
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Note that speech to text is not very accurate and even native speakers have things transcribed incorrectly.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Activity: Call the presenter 910-475-8604 and leave a message by answering this question – What features of your cell phone have you used, other than making a phone call?

**//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">e. Text to Speech //**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Voki - []

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Sample Activity: Call in a poem or give voice to your online 'persona' (avatar)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Create an animated avatar on voki. Then embed that avatar on your Web site, wiki or blog to welcome the visitors. One example lesson plan suggests students call in and read a poem.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">An example:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Sample Dr. Seuss poems from []

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">An example:

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|Janis & friends on Dr. Seuss]

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">4. Technology Tools and Technical Tips =

**//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">a. Cloud Computing //**

 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px; line-height: 29.10179901123047px;">**//Drop//****//box//** ====
 * ====**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; line-height: 1.5;">Skydrive **====
 * ====**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; line-height: 1.5;">Google Drive **====

**//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">b. Web resources //**

 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|NCCCS Virtual Learning Community]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|NC Learning Objects Repository]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> To access NCLOR, go to the website and in the section where it allows you to sign in as a guest, request an account. The administrators will verify that you are an employee of a community college and will then email you your user name and password. This generally takes one business day.

//**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">c. More Web Resources **//

 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Core Skills Mastery
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Khan Academy (Particularly good for Math)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|Free Rice]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|Study Blue] (Generally entered through Facebook)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|Burlington English] An ESL Program you pay for--the student assessment is free
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|Instruction Targeted for TABE Success] An ABE/ASE Program you pay for
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|Goodwill Foundation]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">More? Let's add some sites that help teachers!

--[|Rubric Creator] --[|Quizstar--a free quiz maker] --[|Online Quiz Creator]


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; line-height: 1.5;">Blackboard
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; line-height: 1.5;">Moodle
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; line-height: 1.5;">Adobe Connect

//**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">a. Introduction to a Personal Website **//

 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|A great Weebly page]

//**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">b. Setting up a site for your class. **//

 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|Weebly] (See handout for printed help pages.)
 * [[file:Setting up a Weebly Site handout4.pdf]]

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