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EDUC 744 928 June 16 - August 8, 2008
EDUC 744 928 September 29 - November 21, 2008
3 semester hours graduate credit
Online - no travel to campus

Description: Concepts, instructional technology strategies, and research for integrating digital photography and photographic resources across the curriculum. Explore connections between emerging literacies and writing, reading and learning in content areas and strategies to stimulate inquiry, creativity, critical thinking and digital storytelling.

This course is designed for K 12 educators (all disciplines), special educators, ELS teachers, school library/media specialists, technology coordinators, technical schools, virtual high schools, community colleges, university online programs, as well as trainers in continuing education, business, government, health care, professional associations, and nonprofit organizations.

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Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Analyze current research on emerging frameworks of literacies when integrating media (including digital photography) with learning activities.
2. Apply best practices to support the importance of creativity within the classroom.
3. Research and apply appropriate learning theory to pre-existing lesson and/or unit that integrates theory and a digital photography component.
4. Analyze an instructional curriculum problem and integrate digital photography resources including local, state and national resources in libraries, archives, and museums in a variety of K-12 subject areas including science, math, social studies, literacy curriculum, and the arts.
5. Analyze instructional strategies to promote student inquiry during research activities while integrating digital photography to teach various concepts and skills in a curriculum area.
6. Research legal and ethical practices related to copyright laws, citation of sources and fair use policies for digital images and the ability to manipulate images in the classroom.
7. Research and evaluate online repositories of digital photograph resources for their effectiveness as learning objects to maximize student learning and address diverse learner needs.
8. Demonstrate how to create various file formats and how to edit and manipulate digital images using internet-based image editing software for image rotation, cropping, resizing, color adjustment, gray scale, sharpness and application of photo filters.
9. Analyze Internet-based file sharing resources supported by interactive user-authored content for uploading, downloading and sharing photographic resources.
10. Analyze and evaluate an assessment, documentation, and/or instructional tool for teacher or student-produced digital photographs.
11. Design and publish a digital storytelling project to enhance understanding in a variety of subject areas including science, math, social studies, language arts, the arts, family and consumer science education, marketing and business education, media production, gifted and talented, special education and technology education.

Through readings, interactive group discussions, and hands-on projects, students will develop instructional strategies to infuse digital photographic elements and graphics with learning activities and student research projects.

Class discussions will include ways digital images meet the needs of diverse learners, ethics in manipulating photos and permission policies for using copyrighted images. The final assessment includes designing and publishing a digital storytelling project to enhance understanding in a variety of subject areas such as science, math, social studies, language arts, the arts, family and consumer science education, marketing and business education and technology education. Activities and the final project will be differentiated, and you may explore ideas that match your interests and professional development needs.

Because this class is asynchronous and open to you 24/7, you may participate from your home or work computer during hours that are best for your work and family schedule. Instruction will be differentiated to accommodate learners with varying levels of technical knowledge.

The class is highly interactive with a significant discussion component. All projects/assignments will be submitted via e-mail or presented via the WWW. Instructor/peer comments will be available through the online discussion board or sent by e-mail.

This course is designed to help educators meet specific ISTE National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) and Wisconsin fourth, eighth and twelfth grade technology proficiency standards. Course objectives are aligned with the following:

Wisconsin Standards for Teacher Development and Licensure (WI DPI) 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10
International Society for Technology in Education, National Educational Technology Standards (NETS-T I, II , III, IV, VI)

All K-12 curriculums can be enhanced as educators utilize digital photography to augment teaching, engage the disinterested student, and encourage students to apply their visual creativity to the inquiry learning process. This course provides a valuable experience for those interested in exploring how to use an image-rich curriculum to reach more students and meet the needs of diverse (especially visual) learners in all subjects.

Using emerging frameworks of literacy and applicable learning theories, you will design lessons and authentic assessments for students in preparation of 21st century job skills. Digital storytelling helps students practice skills in researching, writing for an audience, problem solving, working with others, higher-order thinking, and authentic learning.

Conducted completely online with no face-to-face sessions, you may participate from your home or work computer 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Additional classes are listed in the online catalog.

Course Content

This course content is organized around these topics:

Introduction

• Research on integrating media into the classroom
• Jenkin’s emerging literacies for today’s learners
• Creativity in the classroom

Instructional Applications of Digital Photography

• Learning theories that lend themselves to integrating digital photography
• Strategies across reading, writing and the content areas
• Assessment tools: formative, summative and diagnostic
• Instructional lessons/units

Digital Photography Basics for the Classroom Teacher

• Image capture: downloading, scanning and shooting
• Photo manipulation: editing and resizing
• Digital sharing, storage and photography resources
• Internet-based file sharing resources supported by interactive user-authored content

Digital Ethics and Copyright Issues    

Digital Storytelling

• Integrating digital images with classroom curriculum to promote critical thinking

Assessment and Action Plan for Using Digital Image Knowledge in the Future

Required Textbook
Readings and lectures will be available online within each module.

Required Software and Hardware
You will need to be able to send and receive attachments, preferably with Microsoft Word or Appleworks. You may also need to receive and open PDF files and Microsoft Powerpoint files.

Hardware Requirements

Complete the system checkup on this website, https://uwstout.courses.wisconsin.edu/
by clicking on the link that says: Check your system.

Review the list of compatible/recommended browsers and software programs for Learn@UWStout at the Online Help Desk.

If you have any questions about these preferences, please call one of the numbers listed below and indicate that you are a UW-Stout student needing help with Learn@UW-Stout . Help is available 7 days a week.

• 1-888-435-7589 select option 3
, or
• 1-608-264-4357 select option 3

All projects will be exchanged by posting to online storage or the course DropBox, and your peers and instructor will provide suggestions and comments by posting to the discussion board.

Take a few minutes to review the Frequently Asked Questions, (FAQs).

Instructor
Alicia Mundt - Background and contact info

Registration
Tuition is payable by university billing, MasterCard, or Visa.
Participants may select the payment plan option in fall and spring, but it is not available during summer session. Refund policy

Enrollment is limited to twenty participants; register online.

Check out the list of additional online classes.

For additional information, e-mail your comments or questions to:

Contact: Joan M. Vandervelde
Online Professional Development Coordinator
School of Education
University of Wisconsin - Stout
Menomonie, WI 54751
phone: (715) 642-0209
fax: (715) 232-3385

Orientation Activities
After you are enrolled, review the orientation activities, Student Expectations and Responsibilities and Academic Expectations and Dishonesty Policy .

Alignment with Wisconsin Teaching Standards
Participants in this class will gain experience that will help them meet the following Wisconsin Teaching Standards: 3, 4, 6, 7, 9

Alignment with National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers
This class will help participants meet the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers I, II, III, IV, V, VI

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