Hi all and welcome to CI 598A, Disruptive Technologies (for teaching and learning). As you can imagine, today will be relatively light — introductions, a presentation, an overview of the primary technologies we will be using, and a few other house cleaning items. Today is really all about meeting each other and understanding what the course is all about.
Typically we will post a “Class Today” update 30 or so minutes before class each week that will outline what we are doing for the day. This is obviously one of those posts. This course is really about how we can work to come together as we explore the notions of community, identity, and design — especially how they intersect with both physical and online teaching and learning spaces. We will be doing quite a bit together over the next 15 or so weeks and it will seem like quite a bit at times. With that said, please know that both Scott and I are open to revisiting the design over the next several weeks.
Class Today
- Introductions and course background
- Syllabus review
- “Enabling the New Classroom Conversation” (Presentation and Discussion)
- Break
- Meet our technology: Diigo, Twitter, Google Docs, Setting up Yammer, and the Blogs at Penn State
- Fill out the account form. If you do not have accounts at all the listed services please get them prior to filling out the form. It is best to use the same username across these services where possible.
Out of Class Assignments
- Personal Introduction posted to the course blog space
- Readings are Available in the Yammer Space: Camplese & McDonald, “Disrupting the Classroom” and Lankshear & Knobel, “Sampling ‘the New’ in New Literacies”.
- Register for the TLT Symposium