Proj #2 - Activities for Fri, Sep 1

1. Discuss each of the steps in creating a podcast episode.
2. Begin writing your interview questions.
3. Try recording a short interview with the person sitting next to you. What problems do you encounter? How will you solve them when you record your interview?
4. Discuss recording resolution.
5. Research on the web and find out the appropriate settings for your podcast.
6. Learn how to make these settings in Audacity and try recording.
7. Discuss Murphy’s law.

HW:

1. Schedule a time for your interview.
2. Write your interview questions. These are due, to hand in, at the beginning of class on Monday.
   

Proj #2 - Activities for Wed, Aug 30

1. Discuss the MYP Design Folder: “A compilation of evidence that accompanies the final product for a unit of work. Students formally organize the results of their investigations, their various designs, plans and evidence for creation, their reflections during the creation stage and their evaluations of the final product/solution.
2. Demonstrate the Audacity software
3. Show basic controls for recording and editing.
4. Try out Audacity
   
   • Make a short recording of yourself
   • Play back
   • Make some edits
   • Play back again
   • Save in your folder (not on the C drive)
5. Research interviewing and interview techniques. How will you conduct your interview?
6. Begin writing your interview questions.
7. Begin work on the “Investigate” entry of your design folder.

HW: Complete your interview questions

Proj #2 - Activites for Mon, Aug 28

Project #2 - Create a podcast episode

Create an episode for CIC Podcasts in which you interview one teacher for 3-5 minutes. Write a script of questions. Clear, correct pronunciation is important, so rehearse in advance of recording. Edit your recording to minimize distracting artifacts while preserving the integrity of the content. Adjust the volume as needed. You must give the teacher whom you interviewed the opportunity to review the final recording before posting the episode on CIC Podcasts.

Document your work in your blog. Keep a design folder for this project in your blog. Each post should have “Project #2” in the title to make it easy to identify. Proper spelling and clear writing style are important. Your blog should have five posts for the design folder (one each for investigate, design, plan, create, and evaluate) plus at least five posts in which you discuss daily activities. In one of the posts you should discuss each of the steps involved in creating an episode for a podcast from start to finish. The project will be evaluated based on the MYP technology rubric.

The project is due on September 11.

Class activities

1. Define podcast: “a method of publishing audio programs via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed of new files (usually MP3s).” Wikipedia
2. Define terms
   
   • Podcast
   • Episode
   • Player
   • Feed
   • Subscribe
   • File format
3. Go to the CIC website and follow the instructions on subscribing to CIC podcasts
4. Set up your blog for this project and make your first post.
5. Answer the question: How does a podcast differ from an audio file?

HW: Complete your blog post

Proj #1 - Activities for Fri, Aug 25

Review the following questions to complete Project #1.

1. Check the project definition compared to what you have done.
2. Have you completed all of the requirements?
3. What areas of interaction were involved in this project?
4. Reflect on your work. What could you have done better? What problems, both expected and unexpected, did you encounter?
5. What would you do differently next time?
6. Which types of projects and activities are suitable for blogs? Which aren’t?
7. Using the MYP technology rubric, evaluate your work on this project.
   

Proj #1 - Activities for Wed, Aug 23

1. Give Gmail IDs to me
2. Discuss blogs
3. What problems are you experiencing?
   
4. What stage in the design cycle are you in today?
5. Discuss features of Blogger.
6. How to get the time to show properly?
7. What is a template?
8. How does the template affect the content?
9. What other aspects of your blog can you change with the settings?
10. What is the difference between a template and a profile?
11. What information is OK to put in your profile and what shouldn’t you put in? Why?

HW:
Finish your post.

Proj #1 - Activities for Mon, Aug 21

Create a blog.

Create a series of posts in which you discuss the MYP design cycle and the technology rubric. Follow the design cycle as you do this project. You will have to do some research on the design cycle. You should discuss each of the stages of the Design Cycle. In your posts discuss which stage you are in and what activities you are doing. What Areas of Interaction are relevant for this project? Use the various features of Blogger to make your posts readable and easy to understand. Also, discuss the MYP approaches to learning. Which ones apply to this project? In addition, post a comment to the blog of at least one student in the class.

Each post should have “Project #1” in the title to make it easy to identify. Proper spelling and clear writing style are important. You blog should have at least three posts.
The project will be evaluated based on the MYP technology rubric.

The project is due on August 25.

Proj #1 - Activities for Fri, Aug 18

1. Review course description
2. What is a blog?
3. Important terminology

• Blog account
• Blog
• Post
• Blog host

4. Set up blog account using Blogger.
5. Create accounts with the naming convention “CIC10jimp”.
6. Call the blog “Grade 10 Technology”.
HW: Make your first post and comment on someone else’s blog.