EDS203 Assignments
1. Your Website: You will create a personal website that will become your presence on the Internet as well as the location for all of the course assignments. This will include (at a minimum);
Home page: This is an introduction to the website and what your visitor can expect. It can also be a short introduction to you.
About Me Page: This page lets your visitor know more about you, what you believe, what you are doing, etc.
Educational Philosophy: This is the paper you wrote in EDS129.
Educational Tech Philosophy: This should be about a one-page philosophy page about your beliefs on technology use to support learning in the classroom.
Assignments page: This page will have links to the various assignments we create in the course
Word Cloud page: This is the Wordle assignment found below
Educational Resources: A list of websites that you think would be useful for teachers to know. Be sure to include a working link, title of the resource and a short description.
2. School/Class Website: This is a mock website to demonstrate some of the ideas, information, tools that you might include on a class website. This may not be a complete website but should give your visitor a sense of what you might include, such as: Welcome to the class, homework policy, assignments schedule, calendars, grading policies, etc.
3. Delicious account: Create a social bookmarking account. Find at least 5 online resources that you will share through this account. Be sure to include “EDS203” as one of the tags since I will be using an RSS feed for this tag.
4. Netvibes Public Dashboard: Create an educational Public Netvibes dashboard that you will share with the rest of us.
5. Wordle: Find one of your past papers that your are “connected to” somehow. This could be one on an important topic, one that you work very hard to complete, one that you are the most proud of your work, or anything. Enter the text into Wordle to create a Word Cloud. Embed the image in your website and write a short response making sense of the word cloud.
6. Scratch Projects: We will be completing two Scratch projects
Project 1: This will be an exercise to become familiar with the Scratch environment and the tools used within the Scratch application. In the end you will create a small dancing character.
Project 2: You will create the “Fish!” game. In this game your shark will be eating fish for points, but be careful, the poisonous fish will kill your shark. Follow the guide to create the game BUT please feel free to experiment with other commands, change some of the game parameters, and see what you can do with this programming environment.
7. Glogster Project: Create an interactive Glogster poster on any “appropriate” topic that you would share with the rest of the world. You can set your Glog to “private” so that it is not accessible to everyone but be sure to share the Glog URL in your website Assignments page so we can view it.
8. WebQuest: This is a small group project to create your own webquest. We will be using Zunal to create the quest and it will be linked from our WebQuest library wiki.
9. One-Minute Movie Challenge: This is a small group challenge to produce a one-minute movie. You final video project MUST be less than 60 seconds long.
10. GoogleDoc Lesson Plan: This small group project will be to create a technology infused lesson plan. The lesson may be on any topic but it must use technology as a tool.
11. Response Journals: Throughout the course you will be asked to respond to a prompt that links to our course topics. Be sure to post your thoughts AND respond to three post from your peers.