Assignment: Social Media Book Review
Read one of the following books about social media:
- Trust Agents
- Crush It!
- The New Community Rules
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
- Six Pixels of Separation
- The World is Flat 3.0
- The Whuffie Factor
Using Google Docs or Google Wave, collaboratively create a presentation about the book (with two other classmates). In your presentation, summarize, evaluate, and make a book recommendation. Presentations should be four to seven minutes in length.
Due Jan. 20, week 8.
Assignment: Case Study
Select a current, historical, or emerging technology not discussed in class. Submit your case study proposal by week four, indicating the focus of your case study. Write a 2-3 page paper about the selected technology. Develop a case study to include a written and visual component covering the following areas:
• Implications of a technology in the classroom environment
• Ethics of using the technology in the classroom
• Evolution of a technology
Present your finding to the class. Focus on your researched technology, and address your paper in the presentation. Include a podcast (or small video), links to a blog site, and other applications that enhance your message. Presentations should be six to ten minutes in length.
Due January 27, week 9.
Assignment: Video Podcast
Create, edit, and post one standards-based video podcasts. Podcasts:
• Can be instructional, or an example of a project.
• Must focus on an academic area (math, science, P.E., etc) or professional development area.
• Should be 1-3 minutes in length.
• Include you, students, church friends, or family members.
• Have an RSS feed.
• Must be posted with the RSS feed to your blog/website.
As you film:
- Ensure subjects are properly lit.
- Implement the rule of thirds.
- Use at least five different shot types.
- Shoot to edit.
After shooting:
- Upload video to computer.
- Import footage into editing software.
- Edit footage
Assignment: Faith Integration Paper
Reflect on how church or missionary organizations reach out to the community. Include a reflection on what you learned talking to people of other faiths, and how you can share your faith in the future. Write a summary using the knowledge and ideas gleaned from your forum conversations. Your paper should:
• Be 1-2 pages in length.
• Reflect upon how missionary organizations can (or should) reach out to communities using social media.
• Include responses to the key questions listed on the forum by instructor and classmates.
Weekly Assignments
Each week, make sure you visit the 515 forum, and comment on social media websites:
Forum
Every week, visit http://www.billselak.com/forum Read the weekly post. Add your initial response by Saturday at 10 p.m. Justify the importance of your contribution. Respond to at least two other classmates’ posts by Sunday at 10 p.m.
Comment on Social Media
Create a strong web presence by commenting on five educational technology blogs each week. Bookmark the website you commented on at Diigo.com, and add the sites to http://groups.diigo.com/group/educ515.
Assignment: Weekly Blog
Create a web site with an educational, or educational technology, blog. Share relevant insights geared toward either the student or professional community. Publish weekly posts from December 2 through January 13.
Here’s how:
Send an email to post@posterous.com. On the email, attach the audio file (your podcast). The subject of the email is the title of the blog post, and the body of the email is the post. People can subscribe to this blog with the rss feed: feed://yourblogname.posterous.com/rss.xml.
Assignment: Audio Podcast
Create, edit, and post an audio podcasts.
Podcasts:
• Can be instructional, or an example of a project.
• Must focus on an academic area (math, science, P.E., etc) or professional development area.
• Include you, students, church friends, or family members.
• Have an RSS feed.
• Must be posted with the RSS feed to your blog/website.
Send an email to post@posterous.com. On the email, attach the audio file (your podcast). The subject of the email is the podcast title, and the body of the email is the podcast description. People can subscribe to this podcast (from posterous.com or from iTunes) with the rss feed: feed://yourblogname.posterous.com/rss.xml
Three audio podcasts are due on December 2, 9, and 16.
