Fall 2016
Course Schedule
Tech World
Week 1: Logging On
Aug. 30
- Course Introduction
- The Time Traveler
- Start Research Blog
Week 2 : Home Pages
Sep. 6
- Create Teacher Web Pages
Print and Tech Literacy
Week 3: Your Literacy Narrative
Sep. 13
- Task: Literacy Autobiography
- Does literacy change how you think?
- How has literacy defined who you are?
Week 4: Print Literacy: Defining Literacy
Sep. 20
- Discuss Digital Course Packet readings Part 1: Print Literacy
- Students write definitions of literacy
Weekend Activity: Go Tech Free for a Day (Out of Class Activity)
Try your best to go an entire day without using any technology
Tech Literacy
Week 5: Going Tech Free
Sep. 27
- Discuss going Tech Free
- Task: Technology Autobiography
- The WikiBib Project Introduction
- learn to post annotations in class wiki
Week 6: Tech Literacy & Begin Technology Project
Oct. 11
- Discuss Digital Course Packet readings Part 2: Tech Literacy
- What is technology?
- How can we understand technology?
- What does it mean to be literate in a technological age?
- Overview of Technology Project
Week 7: Begin Project IUP Cast
Oct. 18
- Experiment with audio recording and analysis
- Discuss Digital Course Packet readings Part 3: Orality and Podcasting
Tech Pedagogy
Week 8: Tech Pedagogy–Teaching Literacy in a Technological Age
Oct. 25
- Task: Teacher Autobiography
- Discuss Digital Course Packet readings Part 4: Tech Pedagogy
- Explore issues of teaching with technology
- Create a Literacy Education Vision Statement
- Share Literacy Education Vision Statement
Week 9: Tech Work Day
Nov. 1
- Work on Technology Project
- Work on Teacher Web Page
- Work on Project IUP Cast
- Work on WikiBib and blog postings
Tech Life
Week 10: Time and Email Management
Nov. 8
- Overview of Time Management Strategies
- Merlin Mann’s Email Management Video
- Overview of Email Management Strategies
Week 11: Tech Project Conferences
Nov. 15
- Dr. Pagnucci will be meeting individually with each student to discuss their Technology Project’s progress
- Conferences will be held in 321 HSS
Week 12: Thanksgiving (NO CLASS)
Nov. 22
- Holiday
Week 13: Tech Work Day
Nov. 29
- No Class
- Work on Project IUP Cast
- Work on Technology Project
- Work on Teacher Web Page
- Work on WikiBib and blog postings
Week 14: Logging Off
Dec. 6
- Project IUP Cast Due
- List to podcasts
- Technology Project FINAL Version DUE
- Completed Technology Project must be posted online
- Class Pizza Party
- Dr. Pagnucci’s Vision for Teaching with Technology
- Time Travel Technology Demonstration