Course+Schedule

** (click on Week links to see detailed instructions) ** ||= **Due Dates** || ↑ ↑
 * = **Date** ||= **Reading Assignment** ||= ** Summary of Tasks **
 * Week One **Aug. 22nd**
 * Click on Week One to find complete instructions!** || Read through the Instructional Design Theory and You page; and the ADDIE model || Here's the list, for details and instructions, click on Week One in the Date column!

Read Home page and look over all pages. Create your profile page Participate in Asynchronous discussion forum. Minute Post || Complete all tasks by Aug. 29th || ↑ ↑
 * **Week 2** **Aug. 29th**
 * Click on Week Two to find complete instructions!** || Social Networking and more... || Learn to use Google Docs, read and discuss the Digital Bloom's Taxonomy

Minute Paper || Complete all tasks by Sept. 6th || ↑ ↑
 * Week 3 **Sept. 6th (Sept. 5th is Labor Day)**
 * Click on Week Three to find complete instructions** || Digital Literacy--what is it and how does it intersect with the needs of our learners? || Minute Papers

Google Doc work || Complete tasks by Sept. 12th || Complete Alice tutorial || Complete tasks by Sept. 19th to the extent possible in ongoing work. ||
 * Week 4 Sept. 12th || Thinking more about our learners and about pedagogy, and begin gaming || Minute Paper
 * Week 5 Sept. 19th || Thinking about instructional design, technology integration and gaming. || Minute Paper

Start working on your own game. || Complete tasks by Sept. 26th to the extent possible. ||
 * Week 6 Sept 26th || Read about assessing complex learning environments and our mothership, AECT. || Minute Papers

Complete your Alice game and schedule your available meeting times. || Complete tasks as required by Oct. 3rd ||
 * Week 7 Oct. 3rd || Read about assessment, affordances of handhelds, and MOOCAs (not misspelled) || Minute Papers

Let the games begin! See you in GTM this week! Keep working on project ideas. || Oct.10th Complete tasks as possible. ||
 * Week 8 Oct. 10th || Readings on learning and teaching in virtual worlds, and 21st century assessment skills || Minute Papers

Preparation for Second Life Tour || Oct. 17th Complete tasks as possible. ||
 * Week 9 Oct. 17th || Look over the Horizon Report || Minute Papers

Schedule your mid-term meeting with me || Oct 24th Complete tasks as possible. ||
 * Week 10 Oct. 24th || Post your articles and begin discussion. || Minute Papers

Second Life Tour! || Oct. 31st Complete tasks as possible. || Complete tasks as possible. || Complete tasks as possible. ||
 * Week 11 Oct. 31st ||  ||  Minute Papers || Nov. 7th
 * Week 12 Nov. 7th ||  ||  Minute Papers || Nov. 14th
 * Week 13 Nov. 14th ||  || Minute Papers || Nov. 19th This is a short week because the Thanksgiving recess begins on Saturday the 19th ||
 * Week 14 Nov. 28th || No readings this week. || Minute Papers Reflective essay is due. || Dec. 5th ||
 * Week 15 Dec. 5th || This is where I marked Thanksgiving week, so there is no wiki page. || Please make sure you fill out the course evaluation. You will receive a link in your MIX email account on Dec. 10th. || Dec. 12th ||
 * Week 16 Dec. 12th || Post final project by Dec. 12th 6pm. ||  || Dec. 12th ||