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Dr. Alice Christie's EDT 547/548 Readings

Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9
Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 | Optional Readings

Week 2: Web 2.0

• A Day in the Life of Web 2.0 by David Warlick October 15, 2006
• Locate, read, and report of five entries of interest to you from:
  • Read/Write Web: a popular tech weblog by Richard MacManus, focused on Next Generation Web Technology OR
  • Web 2.0 Blog: is Dion Hinchcliffe’s online journal dedicated to Web 2.0 technologies

Week 3: More on Web 2.0

• What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software by Tim O'Reilly (Read ALL sections.)
• The New Wisdom of the Web: Newsweek article on Web 2.0
• Social Bookmarking
  
  

Week 4: Social Networking

• Rise of the Participation Culture – Everyone read:
• The Introduction
• Internet As a Platform
• Participation Applications
• Each student will choose ONE of the following sections to read and report on:
• Social Software
• Media Creation and Sharing
• Aggregation and Social Promotion
• Personal and Group Productivity (Collaboration)
• Gaming and Virtual Worlds
• People: Always on. Always connected.
• What's Next

Week 5: Media Education

• Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the
  21st Century
  by Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Class will divide and conquer on this one.)

Week 6: New Literacy

• Copy and Paste Literacy: Literacy practices in the production of a MySpace profile
• Perils and Pitfalls of Wikipedia

Week 7: Digital Learning

• Technology: A Catalyst for Teaching and Learning in the Classroom
• Integrating Technology into the Classroom using Classroom Instruction
  that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement
  

Week 8: More on Digital Learning

• When the BOOK? When the Net?
• Critical Issue: Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction
  

Week 9: How-To Across the Curriculum

• Teaching Today
  Go here and read any three articles on teaching with technology in YOUR content area. Drop-down windows on left take you to specific content areas and grade levels.

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