EdPsy 387:
Computer Uses in Education

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Day Activity Description
June 16
Network Learning Communities

Sign into TAPPED IN and find at least one interesting resource. Here are instructions for registering and a TAPPED IN "cheatsheet".

Note: we will have an optional "guided tour" of TAPPED IN, Monday night, 7pm-8pm CDT.

Post in WebBoard your description of the interesting TAPPED IN resource you found and a description of how you might use it.

Read Linda Polin's article "Affordances of a VR World as a Place for Learning: Discourse Patterns and Contextualization Cues Framing Learning Experiences for Adults in a Real-time, Text-based, Virtual Reality Setting"

June 20
Online guest appearance

We will meet and talk with Linda Polin, in TAPPED IN, in the CTER Room (E511), in the "hottub" side room. We'll meet with her at 7 pm (CDT) - please get to the room a few minutes before that. If you're not sure why we're meetin in the "hottub" room, then you haven't read her paper :-)

Post your reactions in WebBoard by June 21 to Linda's paper and our discussion with her.

June 20
Network Learning Projects

Skim through the articles in the "Guidelines" web site http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/guidelines . Find one to read in depth, and post your reactions in WebBoard. Search the web for a learning project that you find valuable for learning. Post in WebBoard a description. Find one that you can participate in as part of EdPsy 490 NET, the CTER course you'll be taking in July. One good place to look is the Global Schoolhouse Project Registry.

June 21
Technology Troubleshooting

Enter your troubleshooting log entries to this point into the Troubleshooting Knowledgebase.

Read some of the "memorable troubleshooting stories" at http://cternt1.ed.uiuc.edu/Troubleshooting/troubletemp.asp, rate some of the stories, and then enter a memorable troubleshooting story of your own.

Read Phil Agre's "Building an Internet Culture", especially the part about Julian Orr's research on Xerox technicians.

Reflect on your own troubleshooting, and post in WebBoard your description of how you handle technical troubles.

Read the Levin & Miyake paper (optionally go through the audio narrated Powerpoint).

As part of your own reflection, react to the Levin & Miyake paper, describing how your troubleshooting is similar and/or different from the process described there. Also reflect on the toubleshooting log and knowledgebase and the memorable troubleshooting stories, and how they do or do not help in your own troubleshooting.

June 22
Major Project Progress Report

Post in WebBoard a progress report for your major project. What have you done so far? What do you plan to do? What barriers have you encountered?

Respond to at least two progress reports that don't already have two responses, giving constructive feedback.

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