05.26.10 Global Classroom

Welcome to Moodle Mania!

Getting Started:

1. We will be using GlobalClassroom's open access version of Moodle during this session. Please open a new tab with Global Classroom (link) or http://www.globalclassroom.us/ (type URL).

2. Register by creating a GlobalClassroom username and password.

3. Login to GlobalClassroom and search for "Moodle Mania".

4. Click on the course to register. Password for registration = Humboldt.

5. Begin working on Part One: Introductions. Feel free to use the Moodle chat after completing the two Surveys and the Welcome Forum.



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04.28.10 Google Docs

• Welcome (maybe five minutes)
• About the Presenters: Vicki Kurtz and Tracy Duckart
• To the TM2010 Blog: Signing in, Opening Tabs, Reviewing Agenda
• Introductions: What Is Google Docs? (maybe fifteen minutes)
• CommonCraft's "Google Docs in Plain English"
• A Stream of Samples
• Getting into Google (maybe 15 minutes)
• Create or Log into a Google Account
• Email Preferred Email Address to tracy.duckart@humboldt.edu
• Watch GooDoc Creation: opening, naming, saving, and sharing; permissions and contributors; formatting, inserting, linking
• Getting down with GooDocs (maybe 30 minutes)
• Create First Document
• Title First Document
• Introduce Yourself in First Document
• Provide your name, school, and reason for attending the GooDocs session
• Dream in writing about how you might use GooDocs in your professional and/or personal life
• Share this first document with workshop participants by copying and pasting their email addresses from the eMailbox
• Create Second Document
• Title Second Document
• Answer at Least One of the Following Questions (write until we make you stop, please)
• What is / has been the best part of your week so far?
• What are you looking forward to doing this weekend?
• What would you like to describe about your  past collaborative-writing epxeriences?
• What would you like from future collaborative-writing experiences?
• Share this second document with workshop participants by copying and pasting their email addresses from the eMailbox
• Learn about Commenting Options and about Accessing Revision History
• Who else is currently editing a GooDoc?
• Which documents have been shared and with how many contributors?
• Who has modified the GooDoc--and when?
• How has the GooDoc been modified over time (revision history), and how does one retrieve a previous version?
• Organize GooDocs
• Create at least one folder
• Color code folders
• File the new document
• Getting into GooFunctions (maybe three minutes)
• Google Spreadsheets (Faux Excel)
• Google Presentations (Faux PowerPoint)
• Google Forms
• Importing, Exporting, and Posting to Blogs and Websites
• P L A Y    T I M E   (maybe 37 minutes)
• Announce Work Preference: Alone or in Collaboration
• Announce Primary Subject / Goal
• Begin document project(s)
• Begin spreadsheet project(s)
• Begin presentation project(s)
• Work with Tracy to learn GooForms
• Gather technology standards and/or GooDocs information, resources, examples, goodies (like technology standards); gather findings in a new GooDoc to share with group
• Commit to Play; Embrace Experimentation
• Invite contributors
• Contact / email contributors
• Set access levels
• Import to / export from documents (make a personal document on one computer / drive public and accessible by importing from Word, for instance, to GooDocs)
• Upload to other online platforms: blogs, websites
• Track access and activity from DocsHome
• Create organizational files; color code for ease of reference
• Jazz up documents with links and photos
• Volunteer to create an availability survey for May/June follow-up session
• Conclusion (maybe 15 minutes)
• Volunteer to Share a Doc, Spreadsheet, Presentation, or Form (invite Tracy at tracy.duckart@humboldt.edu or share with everyone; use projector to show and tell)
• Volunteer to Talk Group through Discoveries, Concerns, Plans, and/or Questions Arising from Play Time
• Learn about Optional May/June Follow-up Session; Complete Availability Survey
• Complete the Participant Feedback: Online Survey.  Thank you.

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03.24.10 Wikispaces

Please follow this link to Anne's agenda, available on WikiSpaces. And please bring ear buds for the workshop if you have them. Thank you.

http://techmatters-2010.wikispaces.com/


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03.10.10 WordPress Blogs

About Blogs, Blogger, WordPress, and this Workshop

This TechMatters 2010 series blog has been created using Blogger, a friendly, accessible, easily customized platform for building blogs. Unfortunately, Blogger is also a limited platform. That is why this workshop covers another, more sophisticated platform: WordPress.

I still like Blogger, and because it is still the perfect tool for so many jobs, I still use it. But when I need something beefy, something that can both pirouette and annihilate, I turn to WordPress.

For the purposes of practicing what I preach and of increasing the speed at which this platform becomes familiar, this WordPress Blogs workshop will be presented via WordPress. Please follow this link to get there: http://rwpblogs.wordpress.com/.

At the end of our time together this evening, you are welcome to complete the Participant Feedback: Online Survey from this link, of course. And if you would really prefer to work with Blogger over WordPress, please visit RWP's Advanced Technology Institute 2009 resources for how-to-build and where-to-go directions at http://ati2009.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-use-blogger.html or (for a printer-friendly, downloadable version of same) at http://www.humboldt.edu/~rwp/BloggerDirectionsATI2009.pdf.

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02.24.10 VoiceThread

Welcome to Voicethread!

Agenda

• Introductions.

• What is a Voicethread?

• Please open your email. Set up tabs for email, TechMatters 2010 blog, and Voicethread.

• Register at Voicethread. Upload image to identity.

• Common assignments: Narrative and/or Ad Analysis.
  

• Share and comment on common assignments.
  

• Browse Voicethread library and resources. See also Tom Barrett's 17 Interesting Ways to Use Voicethread.

• Writing Activity: In what ways might you use Voicethread in your classroom?

• Report/share ideas: Hints from Our Participants

• Complete Participant Feedback: Online Survey .
  

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02.10.10 Glogster

Agenda

Log in

Review agenda

Set tabs on computers

My students' Glogster work on class wiki

Student ideas on blog page

How could you use this application?

Log on to Glogster (Playtime)

Gallery walk

Visit/Plans for use/Standards

Glogster rubric pages

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