Week+Two

=Week 2 - September 13, 2011 Agenda= =I. Homework Review=
 * Wiki fix
 * Blog trouble-shooting
 * Grading
 * Blog post highlights
 * Revised posting protocol
 * AUPs Code of Best Practice & Lessons

=II. TED Talk=
 * [|Do Schools Kill Creativity], Sir Ken Robinson

=III. Tuesday's Tools or Tools for Tuesday=
 * Cool Tools for School wiki
 * Education beyond conferences & magazines:
 * RSS
 * Bloglines & Google Reader
 * Blogs
 * Finding, selecting, reading, commenting, hooray!
 * Twitter
 * Following the right people (like a good lemming).
 * Student tools (and teachers, too!):
 * Organizing & Mind-mapping
 * popplet
 * Presentation & Digital Storytelling
 * animoto
 * voicethread
 * 280 slides
 * prezi (if you dare!)
 * Cartoon Tools
 * toondoo
 * goanimate
 * xtranormal
 * read,write, think.org

=IV. [|Critical Evaluation Tools], by Kathy Schrock=

=V. Infographics=
 * ====== [|explanatory video] ======
 * First steps in creating an infographic:
 * Identify the topic.
 * What are the elements to analyze?
 * Developing a plan for representing each element.
 * Gathering necessary information/data & citing as necessary.
 * Developing a draft/mind-map.
 * [|Infographics]
 * [|Organizing & Mind-mapping]
 * [|Fonts, Images, & Colors]

**Homework - Due September 20, 2011**
 * 1) **Blog** - respond to post regarding Sir Ken Robinson's TED Talk, "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" Please have your initial post up on the blog by Saturday, September 17, 2011.
 * 2) **Reading & Commenting to Blogs -** post comments on two(2) blogs during the course of the week, and provide a link to each on your 'Week 2' wiki page.
 * 3) **Infographic**
 * **Goal**: To promote analysis and critical thinking and use an inforgaphic which addresses the following prompt: "Anatomy of a Useful Web2.0 Site", "Types of Web2.0 Sites", or develop your own prompt regarding Web2.0 applications.
 * Continue self-study regarding the purposes and elements of creating meaningful infographics (see links above), and for the purposes of this assignment, this will mean exploring web2.0 sites.
 * When considering the elements to analyze of web2.0 tools, here are some terms that may be helpful for you:
 * ease of use
 * design
 * features
 * account set-up
 * sharing capabilities
 * skills the tool enforces
 * privacy settings
 * **Role**: A teacher exploring Web2.0 applications for use in his/her classroom, grade-level, or school.
 * **Audience**: Educators! Possibly your co-workers, be they grade-level partners, department members. or the faculty as a whole, but more than likely the whole world.
 * **Specifics**:
 * Select your web 2.0 topic/prompt for your infographic.
 * Identify the elements to analyze (see list above for some possible terms to use).
 * Develop ideas to represent each element.
 * Explore the web 2.0 sites and gather necessary information.
 * Create a mind-map which will serve as an organizer/draft for your infographic.
 * Draft your infographic using a mind-mapping tool, like [|Popplet].
 * Embed your mind-map draft (or link to, if embedding is not available) on your 'Week 2' wiki page.
 * Choose the tool for creating your infographic
 * Your are free to choose the tool of your choosing. Perhaps a PowerPoint slide, a one-panel cartoon (like Toondoo),Glogster, or Aviary.
 * Create infographic.
 * Embed your infographic (or link to, if embedding is not available) on your 'Week 2' wiki page.