9:00 – 9:30

Welcome Back!
Paperwork
What have you been reading?

9:30 – 10:30
Digital Profile/Footprint

Google Blog Search

Delicious.com (/tag/?????)

Diigo.com (/tag/????)

Website as Graphic

Digital Profile Activity

10:30 – 12:00

Copyright and Fair Use Pre-Assessment

Keri-Lee a blogger on U Tech Tips shared a student produced video on the website. The students, following the teachers directions used what has become known as the Common Craft style of creating videos.

Here’s an example of a Common Craft Video

Here is the one that the students in Singapore created:

Does Common Craft have a right to ask the teacher to please remove the video from YouTube?

Are the teachers and students allowed to use the video format and share it with the world under “Fair Use” Law?

Understanding Copyright

Reflection of Understanding Copyright in small groups.
Essential Questions:

• What is Fair Use?
• What is the purpose of Copyright?

Critical Thinking Questions:

• Why have copyright law expanded in recent years?
• Explain why computer industry leaders believe that a robust interpretation of fair use will create new business opportunities.

12:00 – 12:45 Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 Creative Commons

Creative Commons in Education

Turnitin Infographic on Plagiarism

2:00 – 2:30

Adding images to your blog

Flickr.com

Compfight

John Johnson

Google with CC setting

3 key points to attribution:
1. You must have permission to use it (ie: CreativeCommons)
2. You must link back to the original image (ie: URL)
3. You must state the owners name (ie: whose image is it)

2:30 – 3:30: Cyber Bullying
Cyber Bullying Case Studies
What is cyberbullying and what sort of technologies can be used for it?
Is cyberbullying any different to offline bullying? Do you think it is worse or just different?

Case Study 1
Case Study 2

3:30 – 4:00: Group Discussion

Is Cyberbullying prevalent at your school? How do we know? How can we find out?
Does the school have any jurisdiction and the right to intervene in cyberbulling incidents created off the school campus?
Who has the responsibility to educate students how to respond to Cyberbullying incidents?
Do schools take an active or reactive approach to cyberbullying?
How can we as a school be proactive in preventing cyberbullying?
Cyberbullying Response

4:00 – 4:30: Revisit your schools AUP and discuss how cyberbullying, copyright, and other issues are addressed within them.

Course 2 Project

9:00 – 10:00:
Reflection on coure 1

10:00 – 10:30:

What have you been reading?

10:30 – 11:00: 

Questions about your blogs?

Questions about Twitter

Questions about friending kids on social-networking sites

Other questions you want to pounder

11:00 – 12:00
2012 Horizon Report
Each group will research and create a google presentation to teach the rest of the cohort about their topic as it relates to education and society as a whole.

Group A: Mobile Devices and Apps
Group B: Tablet Computing
Group C: Game Based Learning
Group D: Personal Learning Environments
Group E: Augmented Reality
Group F: Natural User Interface
12:00 – 12:45: LUNCH

12:45 – 1:45: 

Where is all this going?

Back Channel

10.9 Million Online K-12 Students by 2014 (Prediction from 2009 and is low)

Your Massively Open Offline College Is Broken

Online replacing physical colleges at a break neck speed

TED and the Future of Education

Coursera

University of the People

1:45 – 2:30: Speed Geeking

Sharing your lessons units and see reflect on where you believe this is on the SAMR model. 5 minutes….ready….set….go!

SAMR Model of Technology Integration

Matrix of Technology Integration levels

As week two gets underway it has been great to read your thoughts as we get started down this learning road. Great job linking to your resources and websites within your text!

Some of you have talked about being part of the Google+ trial at your school. Great to see you taking this on. Of course you will start going through the stages that we outlined of the SAMR model.

Dabble: First you will just need to play with it, see how it works, figure out where things go and how to get around

Substitution: Next you will have to figure out what this new tool substitutes if anything that you are already doing. How does it “fit” into your digital life and what does it replace or enhance?

Only then can we really see where Google+ may fit in our classrooms and the larger educational setting.

COETAIL on Google+

COETAIL has been on Google+ from the beginning and I do encourage you to circle the COETAIL Page and join the COETAIL community. We are all still dabbling with how this community will work and support COETAIL overall so help us out!

Audience Matters

You will notice through COETAIL we talk a lot about audience and how important audience is when we are creating content. One of the best motivators we have for continuing to write and to reflect is to know people are reading what we are producing and not just people that have to as part of this course but that there really are people all around the world that are finding your blog and reading what you are writing. We can track these uses by putting a map on our website that keeps track of where our vistors come from. I encourage you this week to figure out how to put a vistor widget on your blog. Here are some websites to get you started:

Revolver Maps

 Clustr Maps

Feedjit

More on your blog:

Here is a video that will walk you through more options you have with your blog including how to use links and widgets.

An Overview of Your COETAIL Blog from Jeff Utecht on Vimeo.

You will now find down the right hand side of this blog a new widget of all the participants  and a link to their blog. At the bottom of the list you can click on “subscribe” and instantly have access to all the blogs in your Google Reader.

This is a cool feature of Google Reader you can click the hidden arrow next to any folder of RSS Feeds and create a bundle you can share with others. Think about how powerful this could be in the classroom.

Here’s a how to if you want to give it a try.

Thank you for a great first day today. I always enjoy these journeys of learning. We start at Day 1 with that deer-in-the-headlights look not knowing what to do, where to go or how all this works. No matter the age that first day of class always has that same look.

I know it’s only been 2 hours since we last saw each other however I’m sitting here on Melanie’s couch and reflecting on the things I wish I would have covered today and the things I forgot to cover…so consider this the forgotten info of today.

I found a couple more blogs worth considering a space in your Google Reader:

Clarence Fisher (Yes he was before but I had the wrong link…if you’re a Middle School teacher a must read in my book!)

Brian Bennett (HS and MS Science talks about lot about the flipped approach to teaching and teaching for Mastery. Worked here in Korea for two years and now back in the states)

From time to time I’ll give you others to consider. Always just a recommendation. It’s your information stream you decide what goes in it.

Adding Links to a blog post: 

As we talked about today links are important to the web and are what make a web page…a…well…web page.

How to add a link

How to add an image

It’s a Journey

We covered a lot today…and I don’t expect you to remember it all. Do remember this is a marathon not a sprint and we’re starting this marathon on a steep uphill climb. But by the end of this course we’ll be on a plateau looking out across a new learning landscape. Lean on each other, lean on me, and use your network both personal and in person and virtual we are all here to help!

Here is a tentative outline for Saturday. As with everything digital it can change (and probably will) at a moments notice.

9:00 – 9:30
Welcome and Warm-up activity

9:30 – 10:30
Sign up for an account on the Coetail.com site and explore the connections within.

Write your first blog post

10:30 – 10:45
Break

10:45 – 11:15

• Sign up for a Google account
• Share Google Doc Folder with everyone
• Create a copy of the grade sheet

11:15 – 12:00
What is an RSS Reader
Set up RSS Reader

Google Reader

Edutopia Blogs

Digital Leader Network 

Free Technology For Teachers

Edublog Awards

Will Richardson, Weblogg-Ed
Silvia Tolisano, Langwitches
Clarence Fisher, Remote Access
Chrissy Hellyer, Teaching Sagittarian
Michael Smith, Principal Pages
Jeff Utecht, The Thinking Stick
Kim Cofino, always learning
Dan Meyer, Dy/Dan

12:00 – 12:45
Lunch

12:45 – 1:45
Google It!

A Google A Day

A Google A Day Bank

Google Search Tips -courtesy of Google
Verifying Information Worksheet -courtesy of Clarence Fisher
Google for Educators – some great resources
http://www.google.com/educators/index.html
http://www.google.com/educators/tools.html
http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html

Learn some basic search syntax, or use Google Advanced Search

What would you believe?

Many people did!

What about octopuses that live in trees? http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Or tinfoil hats to stop people reading your mind? http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
Or perhaps you’d like to know The truth about Hell? http://www.av1611.org/hell.html
Or an oil rig team accidentally drilling all the way to Hell? http://amightywind.com/hell/aboutsounds.htm
Or making cats into Bonsai ornaments? http://www.shorty.com/bonsaikitten/index.html
House Hippo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfi8OEz0rA
web site for the Dihydrogen Monoxide Research http://www.dhmo.org/

Take a look at these pages. Are they real? How do you know? How can you find out?

More importantly, how can you teach your students to be able to tell the difference?

You could start by teaching them to think about the 5 Factors for Evaluating a Website

Authority – Currency – Content/Purpose – Audience – Structure/Workability