Final+Project

=**IDT735 Final Project**=

The purpose of this project is to allow you to enact your ideas about effective technology integration now that you have had time to study and think about the latest ideas and theories. Preferably, you will have a real world project in which you want to integration new technologies to improve the learning experience for your learners. If you do not have a real world project, then you will develop a learning experience using new technologies for the type of learners you plan to work with someday.

You may use an already existing project or learning experience that could be improved with revision and better techniques of technology integration. i. Your presentation should demonstrate what the learning experience was like before the technology integration, and what it will be like afterward. ii. You must make clear how you will assess your learners, and how you will assess the effectiveness of your learning experience.
 * 1) 1. Finish up your Google Doc project idea by writing a formal paragraph that describes what you want to do. **(Oct. 25th due date).**Then, in subsequent paragraphs, describe:
 * 2) a. The important characteristics of your learners
 * 3) b. Describe the ways that your technology tool(s) choice will enhance student learning
 * 4) c. Use graphics, photos, or diagrams to specifically describe your project
 * 5) d. Solicit feedback from a peer. Evidence of the feedback will be in the inserted comments that your peer feedback partner creates.
 * 6) e. Finally, send me a note to let me know that you are ready for my feedback.
 * 7) 2. Begin creating your technology integration project. The final project will include two deliverables:
 * 8) Completed Google Doc as described above.
 * 9) A multimedia presentation that clearly exhibits your infusion of technology into a learning experience (no PowerPoint, please. You may use prezi.com)

Use your imagination if you don’t have a real world learning experience for your project. For example, you may remember a learning experience that you had in a class or workshop that you felt was not very effective. How would you improve the learning experience with technology?

You will likely have many questions about how to create your project. You may schedule an appointment to talk with me one-on-one about it. You may also use your Google Doc effectively by making your project description as detailed as possible, so that my feedback will answer your concerns and questions. Each of you will have a very different project. The more information you give me in the Google Doc, the better I can help make sure that each of your projects has a similar scope and depth, even though they are not similar in content or design.

The final project must be uploaded on a website or the course wiki (you provide the link on your profile page or make new pages) by 6pm on Monday, Dec.12th.

Here is a little presentation that you may enjoy, and be guilty of doing!!

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**Assessment by the grade**:
 * 1) A multimedia presentation that clearly exhibits your infusion of technology into a learning experience (no PowerPoint, please. You may use [|prezi.com])
 * 2) This will demonstrate your understanding of what it means to effectively integrate new technologies into a learning experience.
 * 3) Your presentation should demonstrate what the learning experience was like before the technology integration, and what it will be like afterward.
 * 4) Share with us how you expect the changes you make to impact your learners
 * 5) You must make clear how you will assess your learners, and how you will assess the effectiveness of your learning experience.
 * 6) The basics: how do you know what your learners have learned?
 * 7) An A presentation will clearly present all of these elements, and even go beyond, through your creativity and imagination. A B presentation will have all of the elements, and some evidence of your imagination and creativity, such as the use of graphics, innovative presentation that tells a story and engages the observer, a C presentation will present the elements in a straightforward manner. I do not expect nor will I accept any presentation of lesser than C quality!