Other Course
Documents
These resources are
recommended for various questions and challenges you might
encounter during this course.
_Learning
Log Guide
(form and instructions for preparing your
course Learning Log.)
- _Portfolio
Guide (form
and instructions for preparing
course portfolio)
- _Technology
Leap Guide
(instructions
for preparing Technology Leap)
- _Personal
Technology Goal
(brief introduction to the task of setting personal
technology goals
in this course--goals that matches your specific
ability-level and
comfort with digital technologies.)
- Electronic Document
Submission via GoogleDrive. The documents should
be in GoogleDocs
format and include all of the items physical paper assignments
would
include. Use the following sample as guides. Make sure to
include all identifying information! Also make sure to save the file
with your
name and the name of the assignment in the file's name,
e.g., "Your
Name - Technology Leap #2." If you have any questions or need help,
please speak with the
instructor.
-
Sample Document on GoogleDocs Make
sure to
add the instructor as an editor (username:
erickson@augsburg.edu). Also make sure to save the file
with your name and the name of the
assignment in the file's name, e.g., "Your Name -
Assignment #2."
- Dropbox.com: Another
good choice for saving documents to the cloud is Dropbox.com. Here are a couple of resources
to get
you started:
- _Setting
up Windows to use WebDav to Access Your AugNet
NetStorage Space (Accessing your AugNet NetStorage
space via WebDav
is much better than accessing it via a web
browser. In
order to install it, there's an optional update you must
download from
Microsoft to install WebDav. It's at this
site. Also, here's more
info
on how to download, install and set-up WebDAV + NetStorage
in
Windows.) Information on other ways to access your
AugNet space (on
a Mac and Windows) is available at
this
page.
- _How
to
Access Your AugNet Folder (Here's a link to a page
that
explains the multiple ways to access your AugNet storage
volume.)
More helpful sites for learners to expand
their
knowledge in educational technology and related areas:
- _Common Sense Media: Common
Sense Media
provides resources and activities on many digital media
topics
appropriate for youth: pre-school to age 18.
- _Innovators of Intelligence Look to
Past In
the
late 1980s, an early wave of commercial
artificial-intelligence
companies failed, bringing on what became known as the
“A.I. winter.”
The field was seen as a failure and went into eclipse. In
recent years,
however, A.I. has come roaring back as speech recognition,
machine
vision and self-driving cars have made progress with
powerful
computers, cheap sensors and machine-learning techniques.
- _Assistive Technology (This link takes you to the Great
Schools
website for an introduction to various tools for adapting
and assisting
learners with special needs.)
_E-ssential
Tips:
A Parent's Guide to Assistive Technology (Also
very
helpful for teachers!)- _Avidemux
Avidemux
is a free video editor designed for simple cutting,
filtering
and encoding tasks. The program supports a wide range of
file formats
and is compatible with all operating systems.
- Teacher Development: Starter Kit for
Teaching Online:
Expert advice on shifting from brick and mortar to bytes
and bits.
- _When Are Children Ready to Use
Computers?
- _Edutopia:
Top
10 Tips for Teaching With New Media
- _Edutopia:
How
to Build a Technology-Based Curriculum--Educators
emphasize
that infrastructure must precede innovation.
- _Glossary
of Telecommunications and Internet
Terms
- _The
Web as a Research Tool: Evaluation Techniques
- _Supplementary Bibliography
- _Augsburg College Computer
Responsible Use
Policy
- _Assignment
Calculator This
web site
assists learners in planning and
organizing a large assignment such as a research paper. It
helps you
break down the key steps and set reasonable goals and
deadlines to
accomplish your objectives.
DILBERT, by Scott Adams
