Day+One

http://www.matthewbarr.co.uk/superhero/
 * 1. Icebreaker- Introductions**
 * Take the[| superhero personality test]**


 * Tell us what superhero you are- you may need to google more about that superhero**
 * Tell us your name and where and what you teach**


 * What you hope to learn from this course.**


 * 2. Wiki Orientation**
 * 3. Course Syllabus**
 * Communicating, Collaborating, and Creating Course Syllabus**



4. New Media Literacies

Technology in the classroom?

Discussion?

So what if you don't have access to technology or it is very limited? How do we as teachers deal with the never ending issues with low tech or no tech?

[|Henry Jenkins]tells us that

It's not that it isn't important that students have computers in their classrooms. Students with access to technology will typically be better at using technology than students who don't. But just putting computers in classrooms doesn't mean that they will be used well. Frequently, computers are used as an appendage to a physical library or as a word processing tool. These are good uses for computers, but they don't really teach students about the participatory culture that exists online - the participatory culture that they will be expected to take part in as adults. In fact, many students are already engaging with participatory culture, and they're bored by uses of computers that don't incorporate it! Jenkins lists the following 12 different new media literacies that we need in order to fully participate in the 21st century.
 * the goal is to stop focusing quite so much on "do kids have computers in their classroom?" and start focusing more on "do kids have the basic social skills and cultural competencies so that when they do get computers in their classroom, they can participate fully?" Many educators assume that
 * (1) students can only begin learning the skills they need to use technology if they actually have the technology in their classroom, and
 * (2) that putting technology in the classroom is a quick fix that will solve any classroom's problems.
 * **Play**
 * **Performance**
 * **Simulation**
 * **Appropriation**
 * **Multitasking**
 * **Distributed Cognition**
 * **Collective Intelligence**
 * **Judgment**
 * **Transmedia Navigation**
 * **Networking**
 * **Negotiation**
 * **Visualization**
 * **Negotiation**
 * **Visualization**

Each day we will look at one or two of these literacies and discuss its application in the classroom. We will look at each of these in from a perspective of access to high tech, low tech and no tech.

Distributed Cognition **:** the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities. That can mean something as simple as using a ruler or calculator, or something as complex as efficiently using Wikipedia on your iPhone to access information on the fly.

Students who are litereate in distributed cognition can understand cognitive activity as shared among a number of people and artifacts, and cognitive acts as learning to think with other people and artifacts. Following this theory, students need to know how to think with and through their tools as much as they need to record information in their heads.


 * ** Your Task ** ||

1. Working in groups of 2 or 3 you need to provide a recipe for one type of cookies (biscuits) 2. You must do the research for this in three different ways 3. You must present your findings to the class using Discussion
 * no technology
 * low technology
 * high technology
 * no technology
 * low technology
 * high technology


 * 5. Setting up email accounts and blogs**


 * Setting up a gmail account**
 * 1) Go to [|www.gmail.com]
 * 2) Select Create New Account
 * 3) Set up a gmail account


 * Setting up a Blog**


 * 1) Go to [|www.wordpress.com]
 * 2) Choose set up a new accoun t
 * 3) Fill in the information
 * 4) Go to your e-mail account to activate your blog.
 * 5) Go back to wordpress.com and log into your blog.
 * 6) Click on My Blogs and choose dashboard
 * 7) Choose posts and start adding to your blog
 * 8) Don't forget to publish or save changes!
 * 9) If you wish to change the appearance click on appearance and choose the theme you would like.
 * 10) To add pictures to your blog save images in a file. Choose insert image in your blog, browse for the image and upload it. Don't forget to save it.