Course+Concepts+and+Skills

= Key Concepts and Skills =

Click the link below to view a timeline of the history of educational technology. Review the timeline and the PowerPoint presentation and discuss it with your group in the discussion forum. [|Timeline]
 * Key Concept 1: The History of Educational Technology **

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Key Concept 2: The ISTE Standards
Read through t[|he standards] to become familiar with them. Post a reflection about the standards in the discussion area. Respond to your group members' reflections.

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Key Concept 3: Web 2.0 Tools for Creating Multimedia
Read about each of the tools below. Then view the videos to learn more about them.

Google Forms is part of the suite of online tools in Google Drive. Google Forms allows users to create online quizzes that can be used to pre-assess students’ knowledge. Once students complete the pre-assessment, they can complete and anticipatory activity in which they answer predictive questions about course content. Google Forms is an effective tool because it enables the creator to access and analyze survey/quiz results in real time both graphically and in raw numbers/responses.
 * Google Forms: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/87809?hl=en**

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[|Jing] is a free online application that allows users to capture activity on their desktop as video. It is a screen-casting app. Users download it to their computers and use it to create short video tutorials. Jing is an excellent tool for pre-training because it is free, easy to use, and it enables instructors to create high quality tutorial videos.
 * Jing: http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html **

Windows Live Movie Maker is free software that allows users to create video presentations using still images, sound and short video clips. It is available for download [|here].
 * Windows Live Movie Maker: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/movie-maker#t1=overview **

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[|Voicethread] is an online tool for facilitating collaborative discourse around media. Users create Voicethreads by uploading images, video, and documents to the site. Each upload creates one frame in the Voicethread. The creator can then narrate each frame using his or her voice or by adding text to each frame. Voicethread is an effective tool for presenting information asynchronously. Once an instructor creates a Voicethread other users, or students, can comment and discuss what the instructor created. [|Video]
 * Voicethread: http://voicethread.com/**

Wikispaces is an online site for creating wikis. It can be used for authentic assessment in that students can create a wiki as a digital portfolio of their work. A wiki is also a tool for collaboration; thus it can be used to assess group work as well.
 * Wikispaces: www.wikispaces.com/‎ **

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