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Calendar below will give access to the readings and web discussion each
week. We look forward to your contributions.
Please click on the links under "Reading" to access the readings
for each session. All articles are web-accessible; the articles with an
[Acrobat]
link beside them are in pdf format and require Adobe Acrobat Reader software
to view them. Please click it to download the software if you do not have
it.
To
start participating in the reading groups you will first need to be registered
as a "teacher" in our Institute of Education 'school' TryThink.com.
This needs
self-registration;
these are indicated by the [join]
here. The forum name link takes you directly to the online log in page.
http://www.think.com/apply/index.shtml
| Week |
Weekly
Activity |
Mandatory
Readings World Year Book (WYB) 2004 |
Optional
Readings in WYB & UNESCO 2002
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Prep |
'Warm
Up' activities: Get to know Think.Com + create your home
page. Add a message to the Introductions topic set up for ILET. |
Human
subjects email |
|
| Oct
10 |
Use
reading(s) to post at least one message in the group discussion
for week 1 and visit at least 4 IOE home pages, leaving reflective
'sticky notes' on 2. |
WYB:
Brown
& Davis |
WYB:
Brown &
Davis Introduction;
UNESCO:
Chapter 1 |
| Oct
17 |
Use
reading(s) to post at least one message in the group discussion
for week 2. Write a brief reflective article on your home page relating
to the question for week 1 or week 2, or both. |
WYB:
Rodriguez |
WYB:
Kress;
UNESCO:
Chapter 2 |
| Oct
24 |
Use
reading(s) to post at least one message in the group discussion
for week 3. Redesign your home page so that it complements the developing
community and your views better. You may add images and other media
to create a multimedia and add an interactive tool form the Think.com
toolkit. (Note: keep the design simple please!) |
WYB:
Sorensen
& Takel |
WYB:
Ferdig et
al;
UNESCO:
Chapter 3 |
| Oct
31 |
Use
reading(s) to post at least one message in the group discussion
for week 4. Review discussions from this and previous weeks to consider
an emerging cross cutting theme that relates to your scholarship
focus. Optional: add a message within a discussion linking with
an item on your home page to invite others to view and comment on
it. |
WYB:
Laferriere
et al |
WYB:
Cornu;
UNESCO:
Chapter 19 |
| Nov
7 |
Complete
the ILET reading group evaluation please.
Find
a way to archive your artifact, including its reflection and related
into a permanent portfolio storage so that it can be used towards
the ILET web development team in ISU for research purposes and
possible selection to publish on the central web site. |
Evaluation
Publish
portfolio artifact in own medium |
Note
Your
TryThink.com expires after 120 days and you'll lose your work. |
Encourage
Nov
17 |
Produce
an evaluation of Think.com with an illustration of how it could
be used in K-12 teacher education or within schools. Please note
if you plan to use Think.com again, preferably including teachers
and students in schools - we encourage that. We hope to share these
creative evaluations with Oracle Think.com as part of our contribution
to improving access to information and communication technologies
in education worlwide. |
|
Provide
illustrative evaluation of Think.com for K-12 |
Research
This
research is an Action Research case study of the challenges in evolving
professional development for educators that spans cultures, time zones,
and continents. Experience from Europe is beign knit with that from the
U.S.A. Our social constructivist approach to learning using communication
technologiess (including the web) draws graduate students, faculty, and
staff together to develop flexible and distance learning in 3 universities
in the US and 3 in Europe. We will use the reading groups' interactions,
evaluations and limited interviewing to gather data, plus surveys of project
leaders across six universities.
Participation
in the research is voluntary and may be withdrawn at any time. Researchers
will delete entries in the data archives. Where participants may be identified
they will be asked for their approval before publication.
To
withdraw your consent please contact ilet@iastate.edu
and the ILET director of research Dr. Niki Davis: nedavis@iastate.edu.
Web site
created and maintained by ilet@iastate.edu.
Please contact them for further information.
Updated
October 4, 2002
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