Goal: As your culuminary project in this class you will need to document your journey as you do something to improve yourself or the world while specializing in new media of web development video, photography or audio.
Objectives:
Perform an Ignite Talk describing your topic
Create a survey and conduct data collection
Analyze data and suggest conclusions from descriptive statistics
Create a multimodal presentation
Curate and share your weekly learning materials and reflections
Students will be able to engage in electronic collaboration
Students will be able to use and create structured electronic documents
C.Students will be able to do technology-enhanced presentations
Students will be able to use spreadsheets to manage information
Students will be able to use graphical and multimedia technologies.
Project
Step One: Choose a project
First yiou must choose if you will choose to better yourself or better the world
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Ideas for bettering the world include:
Volunteer at a local literacy center
Set up a local food drive
Plan a fundraiser
Plan an informational event
Get involved in a national or international organization
Ideas for bettering yourself
Digital Detox-Limit or remove social media for X amount of time
Quantified Self-Choose some element of your life and collect data, then make changes
Learn Something-Do you want to dive deeper into some ideas
Step Two: Choose a Pathway
Web Development-Your final portfolio will be on your Glitch website that you turn into a blog and have a portfolio page
Videoographer-Using a video editing software of your choice make a video or servies of videos about your project
Photography-Using photo editing software of your choice publish a series of photos, with 3-4 photos requiring editing, documenting your project
Audio-Using audio recording/editing software of your choice record and edit at least three podcast episodes
Schedule
TBD
Tasks
The Readings
Rhizomatic Learning
David Cormier . Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum. Blog Post
Badges??
Colin Mathews . Unwelcome Innovation. Institute of Higher EducationEssay
Affinity Spaces
James Paul Gee . When Learning and Assessing Diverge: Who and What Are We Assessing . Title UnknownPDF
Respond to the readings either each or all in any way you want.
The Writing
Each Week you are responsible to publish four blog posts. Two must be about your project. Two can be on anything you want (yes you can double dip and make free blog posts about the readings
The Performance Task
On December 11th you will do a live demo and discuss your project in class. You will then complete a self assessment of your tech fluency skills and we will confer to assign a letter grade to your progress.