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6.3: Course Outline with Assessment Ideas and Activities

Course Title: ASW Tech Tools for Teaching and Learning

Module Number and Name: 1. Visible Thinking
Objective
1. Explain visible thinking.

2. Generate ideas for making

your students thinking more
visible.
3. List strategies to use in your
classroom for learning and or
assessment.
4. Apply visible thinking
strategies in your classroom.
5. Reflect on the impact of
visible thinking on student
learning.

Assessment Ideas
Presentation
Keynote, Prezi,
Google

Absorb
Variety of online
readings/presentations
about visible thinking.
Also read book: Making
Thinking Visible: How
to Promote
Engagement,
Understanding, and
Brainstorming site Independence for All
Learners by Ron
Padlet online
brainstorming page Ritchard.
Padlet or blog post
or Popplet app on
iPad for mapping
Blog reflection on
strategies used
Part of the above
blog reflection

Do
Create a
presentation
defining and
explaining visible
thinking in your own
words.

Connect
Find additional
sources and create a
shared bookmark
list on a social
bookmarking site.
Share with group
members and add
link to presentation.
Add ideas to padlet. Share padlet with a
group and have
others add ideas.
Use one of the
Share strategies with
assessment methods grade level teams
to list strategies.
and decide on ones
to try in the
classroom.
Teach a lesson in your classroom and write
a reflection in your blog.
Write a reflection in presentation or blog
post on the impact. Include feedback from
students.

Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
Created by Kris Sheehan, February 2014


Course Title: ASW Tech Tools for Teaching and Learning

Module Number and Name: 2. Meet Your Mac
Objective
1. Explain how you are using at
least two of the keyboard
shortcuts to work more
efficiently.

Assessment Ideas
Create and share a
checklist with team
during team
discussion.

Absorb
Presentation with
handout about
keyboard shortcuts
options

Do
Use keyboard
shortcuts when
working on
computer.

2. Organize your files and

folders.

Create a screencast
explaining your
new organizational
system
Screencast showing
your navigation
system

Screencast or
presentation about
folder organization
options on mac
Demonstration,
presentation, or
screencast about
options
Demonstration,
presentation, or
screencast about
options

Create an
organizational
system for your files
and folders.
Create a screencast
Share your
of one of your
screencast with
navigation strategies. coworkers or
students.
Change system
Choose your favorite
preferences on your system preference
computer to
and make a
personalize your
screencast of how
computer.
you made it work
and why you like this
change.
Use a variety of Mac Write about the most
strategies
useful strategies on
throughout your day. your blog post.

3. Use your finder and dock to

organize and navigate files and
applications.
4. Explain which of the system
preferences your found most
useful for personalizing your
computer.

5. Select and practice a few of

the strategies presented to
navigate your Mac more
efficiently.

Video or audio
recording could
use an app like
tellegami with an
avatar and
screenshots from
the computer
Blog reflection

Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
Created by Kris Sheehan, February 2014

Connect
Create your own
checklist to put near
your computer of
your favorite
shortcuts.
Create a screencast
of your organizations
system and share it.


Course Title: ASW Tech Tools for Teaching and Learning

Module Number and Name: 3. Get Googly
Objective
Assessment Ideas
Absorb
Do
1. Organize
Screen shot with
Google Training on Docs and Drive Level Create an
your files in narration
1:
organizations
Google
http://www.google.com/edu/training/to system.
Drive.
ols/drive/level1.html
2. Create and Share document
Demonstration on sharing documents
Create and share a
share a
used with students with students.
document with your
Google
and have them
students.
document to collaboarate.
collaborate

with
students
and/or
colleagues.
3. Use a
Screencast of
Screenshot on collaborating and
Create a documents
Google
document with
commenting on Google docs.
and work with
document
peer reviews and
students to peer
with your
discussion of
review/collaborate
students for process
peer review
and
collaboratio
n.
4. Design
Spreadsheet with
YouTube Video on creating a Google form: Create and disperse
and share a responses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqg a Google form to
Google form
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students or parents
to gather
to gather feedback or
information.
information.
Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
Created by Kris Sheehan, February 2014

Connect
Create a screenshot,
comparing old
system with new
system.
Discuss the
collaboration process
with students and/or
colleagues.

Create a screencast
showing the
document.

Share results with

coworkers or
students.


5. Create a
Blog reflection on
file sharing
process
system for
Google Drive
in your
classroom.

Sharing time with colleagues who use

Google drive to share documents -- on
what has worked and what has not
worked.

Set up a sharing
system for your
class.

Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
Created by Kris Sheehan, February 2014

Write a blog post,

reflecting on process.


Course Title: ASW Tech Tools for Teaching and Learning
Module Number and Name: 4. Create with your Mac Tools
Objective
1. Design media-rich documents
with Pages.

Assessment Ideas
Sample project
page can be
practice or one
used in the
classroom

Absorb
Screencast,
demonstration or
online video creating
a basic Pages
document adding
text, images, and
media.
2. Design media-rich linear
Sample Keynote
Screencast,
and/or non-linear presentations can be practice or
demonstration or
using Keynote.
one used in the
online video on
classroom
creating a basic
Keynote document
adding text, images,
media and actions.
3. Create videos using iMovie.
Create a video
Screencast,
explaining a project demonstration or
for your students.
online video on
creating and
exporting a simple
iMovie adding video,
images, transitions,
and text.
4. Select the most appropriate
Lesson
Dialogue with tech
tool when planning teaching and plan/collaborative coach.
learning.
planning session
with tech coach
5. Design a learning activity
Blog post reflecting Dialogue with text
using one of the Mac
on lesson with
coach.

Do
Transform a plain
document to a more
visually appealing
one to use in your
classroom.

Connect
Compare original
document to your
final, more visual
version.

Transform a plain
presentation to a
more visually
appealing keynote to
use in your
classroom.

Compare original
presentation to the
final, more visual
Keynote.

Create a movie to use Share the video with

in your classroom.
your students and
discuss the
difference between
this type of
directions to a
more traditional
type.
Design a project for
Share project idea
students to use one
with coworkers for
of the above tools.
feedback and
discussion.
Assign project to
Write a blog post,
students using one of reflecting on project.

Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
Created by Kris Sheehan, February 2014


applications.

images or video
documentation

the above tools.

Compare to
traditional learning.

Absorb
Training and
demonstration on
selected apps.
Possible peer
observation.

Do
Create example
projects using the
listed apps.

Dialogue with tech

coach.

Create the lesson

plan.

Connect
Create a comparison
chart of what each of
the apps can offer for
learning and add it to
your blog post
reflection.
Share lesson with
coworkers and
discuss plan.

Course Title: ASW Tech Tools for Teaching and Learning

Module Number and Name: 5. Creating with Your iPad
Objective
1. After looking at or listening to
a description of apps available
for your grade level, choose one
that you would like to use with
your students and explain why
you chose this app.
2. Plan a lesson/learning activity
with your tech coach to use in
your classroom.

Assessment Ideas
Blog post about
what you chose and
why and how you
hope to use it

Lesson plan or
collaborative
planning session
with tech coach
3. Use one of the visible thinking Create a video
iPad apps with your students.
combining the
visible thinking
videos your
students created.
4. Reflect on the lesson or
Blog post to go
activity you designed and its
along with video
impact on student learning.
above.

Use the app with

your students to
enhance learning.

Create a video
combining student
videos.

Write a blog post and receive feedback from

students on the lesson/project.
Peer reflection.

Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
Created by Kris Sheehan, February 2014