Student+TAC

The following is a description of a class I am scheduled to teach in the fall that I created. Using a model from [|YES] - Youth and Educators Succeeding.


 * Welcome to Google Apps for Education **
 * 95202T Google Apps for Education is a hands-on study of technology integration in an educational context. **
 * Credit: 1 unit credit Grade: 10 and 11 Prerequisite: By application **
 * This course will examine many web tools that are readily available to our teachers and students. We will be examining them and determining their uses in specific content areas. As a student in this class you will not only be helping, but creating, curating and organizing information and content for the faculty and students. This may come in the form of a blog that you manage for a department. It may be building an online Evernote resource companion in collaboration with one of your teachers. It may be building a set of instructional videos to be used in a flipped classroom. In, short, we have a lot of work to do throughout the course of this semester. **
 * Simultaneously, you will be expected to complete a review and gain certification in Google Apps for Education. This review and testing process is done entirely online. This will take self-motivation and discipline. There are six online test that you are expected to pass. The first attempt is covered. If you have to retest, you will be expected to cover the cost of $15.00 per test you have to re-do. **


 * What you can expect: **
 * Teachers will schedule time with you to give them suggestions of specific tools to meet their specific content needs. (You will need to “learn” web 2.0 tools so you can then teach others to use them.)
 * You will provide one-to-one tutorials for teachers and students on the use of a variety of Web 2.0 tools
 * As the “expert”, you may be asked to assist in guiding an entire class through the process of how to use a specific application.
 * TAC students will be expected to add content to a weekly blog located on the Bladen 1:1 Help Desk page. On this public site you will give helpful tips, share tools you have learned about, and spotlight your fellow students and teachers who are accomplishing great things with technology.
 * The four TAC students will develop an Edmodo group for brainstorming, sharing, and collaborating.
 * Daily you will be expected to document your productivity via a Google Doc journal. At the end of each class or each night, you will post your progress for the day. I will view the timestamp so don’t wait until Friday to report on the week.
 * At least two days a week you will be expected to Skype me. Since I am not on campus every day, we will need to communicate through Skype.
 * Every six weeks you are expected to complete an independent project. You have the choice of which projects and which six week period you turn it in. Possible projects are (but not limited to):
 * Complete a Prezi for one of your other three classes - on the use of Prezi, a concept your teacher is covering, or topic you come up with (My approval required for full credit.)
 * Create a fully digital project to showcase a concept in one of your other classes. (Video, movie, presentation, etc. Again, my approval is required for full credit.)
 * A lesson that you design that could be taught in one of your classes. You will be expected to fill in an actual lesson plan with all components, integrating technology. A summary with links to resources will be required.
 * Create an infographic on a topic related to school - any subject, sport, etc.