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Welcome to IDT-798, Web 2.0 and Interactive E-Learning **

In the spirit of social Web applications and collaborative learning, this course leverages principals of social constructivism to cultivate a “flat” classroom environment where both students and instructors are equal learners. Standard course activities will include readings, lectures, class discussions, hands-on demonstrations and online discussions. In addition, students will maintain a course blog, deliver one class workshop on a specific read/write Web application and develop a final portfolio comprised of read/write Web artifacts.

...... A. An abstract and evaluation on one of the required online readings. ...... B. A reflection of the proceeding week’s class presentations. ...... C. Comment(s) on at least one other fellow student’s blog entry. ...... D. Ideas of how their teaching methods may be improved by integrating the new technology.
 * 1. Weekly Assessments - Student Blogs** - //Collaborative project// - Students will setup and maintain a blog site via Edublogs or other suitable online sites. Each week, students will post a minimum of two blog entries comprised of:


 * 2. Class Workshop** - //Individual or group project// - Students will prepare and deliver a class workshop on one of the weekly Web 2.0 application topics outlined in the course syllabus. The workshop should be hands-on and provide an in-depth training on the setup and use an individual Website application(s). Students should structure the workshop in a similar fashion to an in-service session that may be delivered to faculty.


 * 3.** **Final Portfolio Project** - //Individual project// - Students will develop a summative portfolio of work developed along the length of the course. Portfolio artifacts will include one developed Website from each of the weekly topic areas. Additional supporting portfolio material should include sample classroom lesson plans, multimedia content and other staff development or school-community communication artifacts. Portfolios should be developed using a Web 2.0 application such as a WIKI or CMS, not a Web development (coding) tool such as Dreamweaver.


 * Potential Optional Text:**

Anderson, Terry & Fathi Elloumi (Eds). (2004). Theory and practice of online learning Canada: Athabasca University. (Free Online Book). http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/ch1.html

Class Dates:
 * Week 1 || 8/25 ||  ||
 * Week 2 || 9/1 (Labor Day - class does not meet) ||  ||
 * Week 3 || 9/8 || Karen - wikispaces ||
 * Week 4 || 9/15 ||  ||
 * Week 5 || 9/22 || Maria - Delicious/Diigo Linda - Flickr ||
 * Week 6 || 9/29 ||  ||
 * Week 7 || 10/6 ||  ||
 * Week 8 || 10/20 (skip week for Columbus Day) || Scott - GoToMeeting ||
 * Week 9 || 10/27 ||  ||
 * Week 10 || 11/3 || Michelle - Google Apps/Docs Jessica - Bubbl.us ||
 * Week 11 || 11/10 || Kelli - Audacity --- Mike - iMovie ||
 * Week 12 || 11/17 ||  ||
 * Week 13 || 11/24 ||  ||
 * Week 14 || 12/1 || Virtual via Wimba or other - email forthcoming ||
 * Week 15.................. || 12/8 ||  ||

