Kelli+Holmes

=Completion Due date: December 9, 2012= I need to submit your grade completion by December 10, 2012. Post your projects here. And provide the following information: Full Name Student Number Home Address

Current Points Earned: 163 To get a C, you need 210 points To get a B, you need 240 points To get an A, you need 270 points.

Assignments that still need to be submitted: Tech Projects - Total of 60 points Tech Integration Unit - Total of 60 points

I've posted the instructions below.

=Assignment 1: Special Report - Digital Divide=

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=Assignment 2: Classroom Gadget=

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=Assignment 3: Tech Projects - 60 points=


 * Google Resource Web Site (Place link here) - 25 points**

1. Pick a mini-lesson to teach. 2. Plan an instructional video for this mini-lesson. How will you start? Proceed? End? 3. Shoot your instructional video using a digital video camera or a digital camera. If you know how to edit, add a title page. (For Flip cameras, you can use Flip Share to add the title page and producer information. 4. Upload your video on YouTube, TeacherTube or Google Video. Publish it. Post the video on our Ning. (See link to a tutorial on how to upload below) 5. If you publsh on YouTube or Google Video, you can embed your video within your classroom site. If on TeacherTube, you can add a link to your video. Goal: Apply design principles to improve a pre-existing newsletter, brochure or poster.  Rationale: Teachers are involved in creating informational documents such as newsletters, brochures, or posters. It is important to apply design principles that will make your informational document more appealing to your viewers, ensuring a better chance of being noticed, read and remembered. In this assignment, I'd like you to learn and apply basic design principles.  Tasks: 1. Read the materials on the Design Principles module. 2. Locate an old previously used newsletter, brochure, or poster. This may be something you made, or something someone else made but which you use or have used in the past. 3. Re-create this informational document applying design principles you have learned. 4. Turn this document into portable document format (PDF). On a Mac, click on PRINT > PDF > Save as PDF. Remember where you saved it. If you do not have means of creating a PDF, go to an online Word to PDF converter, such as [|http://www.wordtopdf.com/] 5. Create a PowerPoint presentation (to be uploaded on SlideShare) showing a photo of your original document, and then show the changes you made and WHY you made those changes. On a slide, you can do a side by side photos of the old and the new, and a sentence explaining what you did. Cite design principles yo used for each decision you made. Aim for 10 points of improvement. Grading: 1. Design changes applied, with explanation of decision based on design principle, 1 point each for a total of 10 points. 2. Overall look of the project (visual appeal) 5 points Spelling or grammatical errors, -1 per incident Signs of "laziness", e.g. missing text, -1 per incident Readability issues, e.g. cutting phrases instead of keeping words together, having one word hanging on to the next line, poor contrast in color or size or style, etc. - 1 per incident
 * Instructional Video (on YouTube) - 20 points**
 * Desktop Publishing - 15 points**

=Assignment 4 Tech Integration Unit - 60 points=



=Assignment 5 Second Life=

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__Reflection on Trampoline Project:__ During Second Life, the designing of the trampoline had me stumped for a minute. I was able to design and alter the dimensions of the trampoline quite easily. When it got to adding the "jump" feature from the inventory I was not able to locate it as easily. With some direction and some patience, I was able to get everything rolling. After the "jump" feature was assed, I took some more time and played around with it and added some more color, texture, and design to the trampoline. It was exciting.

__Reflection on Theater (99%)__ When trying to view the movie, in the beginning I had a hard time between getting my ticket, wearing it, waiting for the link to enter to show up, it all seemed like just a big mess. However, once all of the kinks were out, I was able to view the movie and it was an awesome experience. When I first entered the room, I was confused because I lost all control of my Avatar. Once I realized what was really going on I sat back and enjoyed the show. To see how the Avatar interacted and all of the scenery change, it was interesting.

Final Reflection on Whole Experience All in all, Second Life was an awesome experience. I will say that it does take time to get know how to operate and live in the program but once you get the hang of things its a whole new world. I will continue to work in Second Life even after the class because I feel like its a new way of communicating. It kind of like a high tech SimCity.