Redmond+Notes

=Amanda's Notes....=
 * __Day 1/ session 1__

Ideas to incorporate**
 * blackboard for review sheets SP555...
 * clickers for culture/Panorama quizzes...
 * change sequence for Vistas? (mandatos...subj)
 * show homework answers from vistas to everyone in class?
 * voice thread for speaking practice homework
 * brenner method: collect written work everyday, grade ocassionally


 * Strategies**
 * writing/discussion
 * faculty- student contact
 * collaboration
 * feedback-- even after regular class discussion
 * explicit standards-- remind kids of rubrics
 * problems/questions/issues as sources of motivation> transparency of goals, make problems and projects real world
 * assignment centered course


 * Assignments**
 * Validity- do they achieve/ support learning goals?
 * fit into workload?
 * work backward from goals...does technology achieve/ support learning goals, fit into workload?


 * __Day 1/Session 2__**
 * have students post papers to Blackboard...allows portfolio, allows them to review comments
 * make comments to papers with Track Changes in Word
 * can use Bb to lead kids to additional/supplementary/optional materials...BBC, Colby, conjuguemos, etc.
 * iGoogle...palette for home page design, top stories, time, weather, etc
 * Glossary in Bb for SP555/SP350
 * self-assess for participation?


 * __Day 2__**
 * Use clickers for class polling...create class profile...allows using language input actively to introduce grammar/vocab prior to output/production...i.e What time do you wake up if you have an 8am class?(more or less) a. earlier than 6 b. 6-7 am. c. 7-7:30 d. 7:30-8 e. I'm still not awake. view results...ask, "Are we a class of early or late risers?"
 * Use clickers for prior knowledge polling


 * __Day 3__**
 * google docs allow many people to access and annotate document simultaneously (with Wiki one person at a time can edit)
 * all kids need a google account too; can link to doc from Bb
 * (SP555) KL idea: post poem and have each student comment on each line
 * Threaded discussion on Bb...have students post comments to questions you've posted
 * iTunes U...lots of new stuff!!!!!! free videos
 * [|www.learner.org...free] videos
 * [|www.merlot.org]
 * palabra del dia
 * scholar. google
 * UT has historical map collection
 * MIT open courseware is AWESOME!!!!!


 * __Day 3/ Session 2__**
 * Web 2.0 tools


 * __Day 4__**


 * Video in Bb> upload or streaming file
 * van buren
 * makeref movie
 * anything downloaded from YouTube is a Flash file...ant.com allows you to view flash files from your hard drive
 * MovieMaker imports video from a camera
 * Camtasia allows you to record voice over power point for example
 * use Jing to show kids set up process on Vistas can post flash file to Bb


 * __Day 5__**
 * EverNote and OneNote to keep notes electronically
 * zotero.org for making bibliography, keeping footnotes, and sources (prior software EndNote)
 * using flicrk or VoiceThread kids could narrate slides (their own-describe family pics, a real or fictional trip....provide an image to elicit vocab/grammar)
 * give kids a "partial glimpse" of a character and have them create the story around that