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The Tech-infused Teacher

Use technology as a transformational change agent in your class

By Ask a Tech Teacher

June 20, 2016 – July 10, 2016

Description The 21st Century tech-infused teacher blends technology with teaching to build a

collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning

environment. In this three-week course (formerly

known as Summer PD), you use a suite of digital

tools to leverage change while addressing

overarching concepts like digital citizenship,

internet search and research, authentic

assessment, digital publishing, and immersive

keyboarding. You actively collaborate with

classmates, sharing knowledge and providing

constructive feedback, while you learn to publish

digitally and solve common tech problems.

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing

Professional Learning Network.

Assessment is project-based so be prepared to be fully-involved and an eager risk-

taker.

Need college credit? Click here.

Course includes:

9 Activities

35 videos

4+ lesson plans

5 eBooks

40+ Hall of Fame articles

Unlimited questions/ coaching during pre-arranged times.

Certificate of Completion

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Course Objectives

At the completion of this course, you will be able to:

1. Use blogs, wikis, Twitter, and Google Hangouts to collaborate and share.

2. Guide students in safe and effective internet search and research.

3. Use images legally from online sources.

4. Expect students to use technology collaboratively, purposefully, and as

good digital citizens.

5. Blend keyboarding into class activities to prepare for year-end tests.

6. Blend technology smoothly into your curriculum, making it a tool, not a

distraction.

7. Assess student technology use organically.

8. Use screencasts and screenshots to teach concepts.

9. Publish projects in a variety of digital ways.

10. Create digital portfolios to store, share, and curate work.

11. Develop the core of a Professional Learning Network. Draw on each

other’s experiences, ask questions, and discuss tech ed topics.

12. Solve common tech problems that arise in the classroom.

What You Get With Enrollment

9 Activities (topics)

35 tech ed videos

4 tech ed lesson plans

5 tech ed eBooks

40+ Hall of Fame tech ed articles

Unlimited questions and coaching during

GHOs (we’ll stay until you leave), Twitter Chats, and other pre-arranged

times. These may be 1:1 or in a group. If you need additional help, we’ll

arrange that also.

Membership in class Wikispaces classroom. Here you find all the material

required for class plus additional resources to kickstart your tech-infused

teaching.

Certificate of Completion

Free resources on tech ed topics

These are used in the class and available to you afterwards for review and reference.

Sample certificate received at completion of course

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Course Highlights

Class is three weeks, five-10 hours a week, including a weekly weekend virtual

meeting via Google Hangout or Twitter Chat.

Weekends, address overarching issues in a group setting via

Google Hangouts or Twitter Chat. Questions you’ll discuss

with classmates include “Tech problems in your classroom

and how you solved them” and “How to authentically use

technology”.

Need help on a topic not addressed? Arrange 1:1 time with

instructors.

At the course end, receive a certificate of achievement to validate accomplishments

including all the topics in which you completed required work.

How Class Works

When the Wikispaces classroom is open, you’ll

receive a Join Code. First, set up a Wikispaces

account and then join this class.

During the week, review assigned lesson

plans, ebooks, articles, and videos that

address the weekly class topics. Complete

activities (blog posts, comments, Tweets, and

a weekly project) and where required, add

them to your digital portfolio (your

Wikispaces personal page) via screenshots,

screencasts , embeds, and/or text. Reflect on them, share, and provide feedback to

classmates through blogs, forums, wikis, and Twitter #hashtags. Track your

progress via a Google Spreadsheet (link provided).

Weekends, meet with classmates and the teacher on Google Hangouts (GHO) or a

Twitter Chat to discuss the activities, answer questions, and discuss overarching

topics like “How do you turn students into good digital citizens”.

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Who Needs This

This course is designed for educators who:

Are serious about integrating tech into their class

Worry about integrating tech into their class

Want creative approaches to using tech

Want to go to the next step of tech-infusing their classroom and/or school

What You Need to Participate

Internet connection

Accounts for blog, Google, Twitter, various web-based tools, class wiki

Commitment of 5-10 hours per week for 3 weeks to learn tech

Risk-takers attitude, inquiry-driven mentality, passion to optimize learning

NOT Included:

Software and webtool membership (if any)

Assistance setting up hardware, network, infrastructure, servers, internet,

headphones, microphones, phone connections, software.

Mentors/Teachers

Webinars, GHOs, Twitter Chats, Q&A are by the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Master

Teacher will be Jacqui Murray.

Ask a Tech Teacher is a group of technology teachers who get together at

the award-winning resource blog where they provide free materials,

advice, lesson plans, pedagogic conversation, website reviews, and more to

teachers, homeschoolers, administrators, and other educators who drop

by.

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the

editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources, an adjunct professor in

tech ed, CSG Master Teacher, webmaster for six blogs, Amazon Vine book

reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing

Teachers, CAEP reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist

on tech ed topics, and a weekly contributor to TeachHUB. You can find her

resources at Structured Learning.

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What Teachers Say About the Class

I am learning so much from this class. Thank you so much for all that you are teaching me. I really will be able to relate to my students when they get frustrated problem solving. These

two classes have been the best professional development courses I have taken in a long time. It is money well spent! I will be recommending your classes to all the teachers I work with!

Thank you so much. I really enjoyed taking the Summer PD. The resources are truly priceless.

I can’t wait to incorporate these into my own training to better prepare teachers and students for an amazing experience! Thank you so much for all the hard work you’ve put into the class.

Thank you SO much for creating this class. I was clearly unprepared to be a tech teacher last year. I could teach the equipment and provide keyboarding time, but even I was bored with

tech class. Now I feel SO much better about preparing my students in a much richer and well-rounded manner from now on. …I can’t thank you enough!

Need College Credit?

You can take this course through MTI (search MTI 562) and get transferrable credit

at Calumet College of St. Joseph There will be differences, such as:

The class is five weeks rather than three.

GHOs and Twitter Chats are required rather than optional.

It is graded.

The material differs somewhat so carefully read the summary

It costs roughly twice as much, to accommodate college credit.

Price

$249.00—full package Group discount available. If you have 5+, contact Zeke at Structured Learning

for an exciting savings

Resources alone are valued at over $300--available only with this class package

Register by May 31ST with coupon code SUMMERPD and save 10%.

Need help? Email AskaTechTeacher@gmail.com

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Table of Contents

Description Course Objectives, What You Get with Enrollment, Course Highlights, How Class Works,

Who Needs This. What You Need to Participate, Mentors, What Teachers Say About the

Class, Need College Credit, and Price

Activities

1. Introduction

2. Assessment 3. Common Core and Tech

4. Digital Citizenship

5. Google Apps

6. Internet search /research/images

7. Keyboarding

8. Problem Solving

9. Screenshots and screencasts

Packing Slip—Materials List and Download Links (where relevant)

1. Lesson Plans

2. EBooks

3. Videos

Schedule

Detail on Activities

Online Tools

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PACKING SLIP Materials include Download Links

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Introduction

Prepare for the Tech-infused Teacher as follows:

Join the class wiki and browse through the materials while you’re waiting for the

class start date. It is private so no one can access it but our class. This is where you

will post your projects, have discussions with classmates, and practice new skills. It

will be a safe way to communicate with your new PLN—Professional Learning

Network. You will create your own digital portfolio page here the first week of class

and use it to reflect on and embed projects completed during class.

Preview the ebooks and lesson plans—a few minutes on each. We’ll cover them

more later.

Need help? Email me at AskaTechTeacher@gmail.com. I’ll get you going.

Links change. For a dead link, email AskaTechTeacher@gmail.com, let me know

which link is no longer active, and I’ll update it for you.

General notes: Expect to be a risk taker. We won’t rush in to solve your problems. We want you to

experiment and try options, just as we ask students to do.

Use a wide variety of web tools during this course. We don’t want projects to be

perfect—just attempted. This is how you find what suits your teaching style and your

class.

Welcome mistakes—don’t apologize for them. Fearlessly confront an error, think it

through, and revel in the resolution.

Use domain-specific vocabulary when possible.

Don’t expect to finish everything. Do expect to start everything and be able to

explain where you ran into difficulties. Your Certificate is based on effort, not

perfection. Let the teacher know where you need help.

If we as teachers can use tech for an activity, we do—timing a presentation, showing

a video, taking a class picture, jotting down notes, keeping a schedule, making

appointments, checking the weather. Anything. Feel free to do that during this class.

For example, you might want to use IFTTT to schedule your participation.

If you have an alternative approach that works better for your unique situation, let us

know. Chances are, we’ll be fine with it.

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Schedule

Week 1 – Intro, Digital citizenship, and Internet search/research/images

● If you don’t have a Google Account, create one. Understand how to access Gmail,

Google Plus, and Google Drive. Send a Gmail to teacher. If you don’t have a Twitter

account, create one and use it to greet classmates with the hashtag #SummerPD.

Follow classmates and teacher on Twitter.

● Join class wiki and set up your personal page—your digital portfolio. Know where to

find class weekly activities. Explore class wiki.

● Set up your professional blog. If you already have one, share that link with classmates

via the Class Member page. Add a post about your expectations and reasons for

joining this class. Follow instructor’s blog and classmate blogs.

● Consider classmates your new PLN (Professional Learning Network). Feel free to

discuss any tech ed topic, draw on each other’s experiences, and ask for help.

● Review Introduction Activity materials. Read three articles; review one lesson plan;

watch 2 videos.

● Review Digital Citizenship Activity materials:. Read two articles; review ebook; watch

one video.

● Review Internet Search/Research/Images Activity materials. Read three articles;

review lesson plan; watch two videos one on search/research and one on images.

● Participate in Google Hangout with classmates and teacher. If you can’t make the

GHO, arrange a separate time with the teacher. Be prepared to discuss:

1. how your classroom encourages (or doesn’t) the use of tech in daily learning. If

you don’t know how, discuss how you set it up last year and how that worked

2. who teaches digital citizenship in your school. Is it effective?

3. what difficulties you see incorporating the 6 topics discussed into every lesson

4. internet search/research in your school, and the use of online images

5. how to be sure online images are used legally

6. of the 19 digital citizenship topics, which are best suited to your classroom

● Update ‘Completed Activities’ Google spreadsheet showing classwork progress. Use

link posted to Weekly Activities.

● Project #1: Post a blog Hello article discussing what you learned this week. Include an

image. Explain why it was legal for you to use that image. Comment on two classmate

posts. Make sure a link to your blog is on your digital portfolio page so classmates can

find you.

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Week 2 –Common Core and Tech, Keyboarding, and Screenshots/Screencasts

● Review Common Core and Tech Activity materials. Read two articles; review optional

ebook (or review two more articles); watch one video.

● Review Keyboarding Activity materials. Read two articles; review keyboarding

curriculum (ebook); watch one video.

● Review Screenshots/Screencasts Activity materials. Watch all videos (they’re short).

● Use Twitter to comment on assigned material using class #SummerPD.

● Participate in a Twitter Chat with classmates and teacher. Be prepared to discuss at

least these questions:

1. the relationship between Common Core and tech

2. the evidence in the Standards that suggests a tech-centric classroom

3. How do teachers make that happen? Is it a good idea?

4. how following the keyboarding curriculum will prepare students for end-of-year

Common Core tests

5. how Common Core’s approach to problem solving differs from other approaches

(or is the same)

6. discuss your experience with screencasting and whether you see it fitting into

your classroom

7. be prepared to assess one of the resources you used

If you can’t make the GHO, arrange a separate time with the teacher.

● Update ‘Completed Activities’ Google spreadsheet showing your progress with

classwork. Use link posted to Weekly Activities.

● Project #2: Try three online tools of your choice. If you have a different tool you’d like to

use, get it approved by the teacher and it will be fine. Complete a project in one (or

more). Use a screencast program to show how to use the online tool. See examples on

wiki sidebar under Skills. Embed the screencast into your blog and your wiki digital

portfolio page (so we can see you are comfortable in both formats). Finish before GHO.

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Week 3 – Assessment, Google Apps, and Tech problem solving

● Review Assessment Activity materials. Read two articles. Review lesson plan. Watch

two videos.

● Review Google Apps Activity materials; read one article; review one lesson plan;

watch two videos.

● Review Problem Solving Activity material. Read two articles; review ebook curriculum

and assigned portion of lesson plan; watch one video.

● Write a blog post assessing your work on Project #1 or #2 based on suggested

assessment criteria from Week 1.

● Respond to the blog posts of at least two classmates.

● Participate in Google Hangout with classmates and class teacher. If you can’t attend

GHO, please share your answers to these questions with classmates via a blog post.

Be prepared to discuss:

1. your approach to problem solving in the classroom (are you ‘sage on the stage’

or ‘guide on the side’ when it comes to problems?)

2. what tech problems do you face in your school

3. are class warm-ups and exit tickets formative or summative assessments and

why?

4. What purpose does a backchannel device serve? Do you use these? Are they

effective?

Update ‘Completed Activities’ Google spreadsheet showing your progress with

classwork. Use link posted to Weekly Activities.

● Project #3: Create a collaborative document on a tech-in-ted topic of your choice using

Google Apps. This can be a poll, a form, a shared Google Spreadsheet such as our self-

grading class spreadsheet, or a Google Doc. Invite classmates to participate in yours and

do the same for them. This can be done in a group of up to three students or

individually. There is no difference in the productivity expectation if you work by

yourself or with partners.

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Activities

This class requires 9 activities. Each includes:

Topic—themes addressed in your educational journey

Article—pedagogic articles available on this topic

Lesson Plans/Ebooks—lesson plans (LP) and ebooks available on topic

Digital Tool—digital tools usedVideo—videos available on this topic. The number in

front of the ‘Video’ is its placement in the video stream

When these activities show up on the class Schedule, this is where you’ll find the necessary resources.

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