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= 21st Century Classroom Applications using Technology Home = Class meeting dates: __April 28, May 5, May 12, May 19, May 26 __ Time: 3:45 - 6:45 Location: High School Room 113

You may wish to consider bringing the following optional items to the course. They are not required but might come in handy. If you don't have any or all of these **don't** go out and buy - they are not that important. 1. A flash drive 2. USB connection mouse. 3. Personal headphones, ear buds, or head set.

**__Course Syllabus__**
April 28. Photostory Learners will use Photostory to create a multimedia project. The use of Photostory in the classroom will be discussed. Learners will write a lesson plan which includes the classroom use of Photostory. May 5. Wikispaces. Learners will create a Wikispace account and create a classroom wiki. Widgets, safeguards, Internet safety will be discussed. Customizing the wiki, adding students as members, and the sharing aspect of wikis will be discussed. May 12. Blogs Learners will have an opportunity to create a blog to use in their classroom. Various uses for blogs will be discussed. RSS feed will be discussed as it pertains to blogs. Widgets to improve a blog will be presented. May 19. Using Video Clips in the classroom Learners will explore various videos sites which have academic content. Options of streaming, embedding, and downloading will be discussed. Learners will choose a specific content area and locate video clips to use in their classroom. Embedding video clips in PowerPoint will also be discussed. Quietube.com will be discussed. May 26. Digital cameras in the Classroom The basics of using a digital camera for classroom projects will be discussed. Learners will take digital photographs. Simple editing of the photographs will be discussed. Using these photographs, Learners will upload to the web to such sites as blogger, animoto, Wikispaces. Digitals photographs will also be discussed as used in Photostory.