schedule

**__ Assignment Week 1 – Individual __** ** Objective: ** By the end of this week learners will have the necessary knowledge to be able to create a wiki and blog. They will post information, create pages, and add information. ** Wiki Assignments: **
 * Join the course wiki located on [|www.mywikispace.com]
 * Familiarize yourself with the course material and resources
 * Look in Class Café for your learning community team
 * Research and view online Wiki spaces to get an idea of options and set ups
 * Search and read on line tutorials for creating Wiki and Blogs
 * Join Google Docs etc. so you can create a Wiki and Blog
 * Create a Wiki and insert a home page containing information about you for icebreaker activity. Suggested information: home state, family status, hobbies, career etc. Also include contact information on this page.
 * Complete Icebreaker assignment under the navigation page titled Icebreaker
 * Invite your learning community to join your Wiki
 * Develop pages for your Wiki: icebreaker assignment (list similar questions to ours for this course-include directions-you will use this with your personal classroom at a later date), newsletter, announcement page, upcoming events (school/class), homework/project page.
 * Begin adding content to the pages you created.
 * List the URL for your Wiki in the class café and email your instructor the URL address.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Blog Assignments: **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px;">Create a Blog- You may choose sites such as [|www.blogger.com]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px;">Post your Blog address in the Class Café and email instructor
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px;">Invite your learning community to join your Blog
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px;">By Wednesday, post a comment to your Blog. Comments will be in reference to your Wiki and Blog experience thus far. You may have insight that is helpful to someone else.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px;">On day 5 of this week post a response to the original blog post your team made on their blog site (respond to 2 postings made by your learning community).


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__ Assignment Week 2 – Collaborative __**

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">** Objective: ** <span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 19px;">By the end of the week students will have necessary knowledge of creating and using a wiki for collaboration with parents. They will have knowledge of using a Blog for continuous journal purposes with a social group. They will have a well functioning Wiki ready to utilize in their classrooms.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px;">Continue posting to your blog. Post a comment by Wednesday to your Blog. Post 3 responses to anyone in your community by Friday.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px;">Develop remaining pages of the Wiki if needed (see Assignment Week 1)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px;">View the Wikis of your learning community. Comment and make suggestions for improvement on all of your learning communities Wikis. Respond to any feedback they have given you and make necessary changes.
 * <span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 19px;">When Wiki is completed and approved by the instructor, make it accessible to your school and parents by posting it on your school website. Share the URL with parents etc.