The Plan

Well we had to come up with a "plan" for our own learning, and since I've been working on a number of things... mainly trying to find stuff that engages the students and holds their interest, as well as making my life easier rather than harder. Here goes...

C:\

cd\the plan

C:\The Plan

/dir

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1. Learning Goals/Objective:
A. To develop and implement a course website
i. Video tutorials
ii. Course content for parents
iii. Daily lesson plan for students to review missed work
iv. Links to course related materials
v. Message board to generate online discussions

B. To create Video/podcast tutorials from lessons
i. Learn to use:
a. Jing
b. Vixy.net
c. Miro.net

2. Resources:
A. Internet tutorial sites
i. Creative Cow
ii. Video Apex
iii. DVXuser.com
iv. XSlimits

B. Mike Schoenhals (Film teacher at Heritage Woods)

C. Jodey Udell (Multimedia teacher at Glen Eagle)

D. Spencer Dunlop (Tech. at Port Moody Secondary)

3. Implementation:

A. Research various options for a course website:
i. Sharepoint (via district)
ii. Wiki's
a. wikispaces.com
iii. Website
a. Create my own (html, dreamweaver, etc...)
b. Free hosting/creating site
- googlespaces
- others?

B. Become an expert on Jing (free version... too cheap to purchase full version):
i. Download program
ii. Install program
iii. Watch online tutorials at jing.com
iv. Play around with program until comfortable with it.

C. Find online resources and useful links/sites:
i. Pay attention to all the cool sites talked about in LTT
ii. Stay in contact with my Resource people
iii. Search the internet
a. google
b. RSS feeds
c. message boards

/dir

C:\The Plan

cd..

C:\

Shutdown

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