Advanced Technology in Schools course is back!

(originally posted on eduspaces.net)

I am pleased to be teaching the Advanced Technology in Schools course again.  This one doesn’t come around very often, and it is one of my favorite courses to teach.  That is probably because I learn as much as anyone!

We are working in an intense, 3 week format.  About half the work will be done on-line and half in a computer lab on campus.  We focus on web 2.0 technologies and consider how those things can be used to engage students in communication, collaboration, and reflection.

This class uses two parallel moodle courses.  One with assignments and grades, where students have the student role and the instructor has editingteacher rights.  The other is a true, shared course and everyone in the class has editingteacher rights.  We keep the resources in the shared course and part of the fun is for everyone in the class to post resources and links so they will become part of the course the next time.

We will be experiencing the usual topics–blogs, wikis, social networking applications–as well as a variety of collaborative and multimedia tools to enhance learning.  I hope that each student will, at the least, contribute new artifacts to a digital portfolio and, at most, embark upon the creation of a personal learning environment woven together with a variety of tools.

We use a shared blog on eduspaces.net, mostly because there are some social networking tools there and I have been a member of that community for some time.  Hopefully, some other eduspaces members will drop in and comment on the student’s posts from time to time.

So if you are interested in technology and education and have a mind to do so,  please join the csc3315 community at eduspaces and participate with us!  We will be active for the remainder of the month of May (2008).