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 * Plymouth** **State** **Course Proposal**
 * Syllabus**

$571 for 3 credit course or $182 per credit plus $25 registration fee
 * Term**: General Session 2006-2007 (200780)
 * Course Number:**
 * Credits**: 3 credits
 * Tuition**:
 * Instructor of Record:** Alan Knobloch, Jeff Utecht


 * Title: Using Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom**

Participants will:
 * Course Objectives:**
 * Give concrete examples of how teachers use these tools in their classes.
 * Understand how teachers plan to use these tools in the delivery of their curricular objectives.
 * Explain how technologies such as Weblogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking sites, RSS feeds and others can deepen learning and increase student achievement
 * Identify assessment tools to measure the effectiveness of Read/Write Web technologies in their personal practice and with their students.
 * Create opportunities to bring these technologies to the larger school community
 * Incorporate, effectively, the tools into your personal or professional practice
 * Develop a supportive, reflective virtual professional community around school-based goals
 * Overcome obstacles preventing the integration of technology such as lack of access to tools/computers, filtering, and parental/district concerns for online safety.

Participants will: View and/or listen to a minimum of 16 sessions of the K12 Online Conference ([|http://www.k12onlineconference.org]) including the main keynote and each of the keynotes from the four strands. · What was your project? · What learning (student or adult) objective(s) was web 2.0 project designed to meet? · How effective was the project? · What went well? · What did you do to contribute to that part going well? · What part of the project did not go as well as you would have liked? · What could you do next time to improve the project?
 * Assignments/Products**
 * Post a minimum of one comment, reflection, or response to course discussion board for each session viewed.
 * Read all entries to conference blog, wikis, and transcripts of chat sessions.
 * Develop and implement plan to use one of the web 2.0 tools in their classroom or professional practice. Publish final product of implementation plan in local setting.
 * Post project idea and respond to other participants projects.
 * Complete one to two page paper reflecting on implementation plan answering the following questions.

Participants will:
 * Contact Time**
 * View and/or listen to a minimum of 16 sessions, each session will be approximately one hour, of the K12 Online Conference including the main keynote and each of the keynotes from the four strands.
 * Active participation in on-line discussions of conference sessions and course projects in an on-going expectation.