Week+4

= Week 4: Online communities 101 - Co-production; value alignment; live and asynchronous tools =

This week you will conduct your algebra activity, and explore the topic of online mathematics education communities.

Objectives

 * Teach the algebra activity (any level k-20)
 * Continue using past technology; add GeoGebra and Twitter
 * Sharing, collaboration... distraction? Evaluate social media for teachers and students

Introduction
... From broadcast/consumption to co-production of information Value alignment Communication by rhythm: Live and asynchronous tools
 * “Here comes everybody” - but not to math?
 * Changing the ecosystem of academic and curriculum publishing
 * Creative Commons and its role in mathematics education
 * Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
 * New New Math: link-able, embed-able, tag-able, comment-able, remix-able
 * Why aren’t there communities “for fifth grade teachers” - institutions vs. networks
 * Inclusion and exclusion
 * Network nodes, lurkers, trolls and other characters: who will you be?
 * Echo chambers, polarizing effects, legitimation of quackery and other internet dangers
 * Math wars 2.0
 * Chats, webinars, VoIP, virtual worlds: live communication
 * Twitter and other “quick” but asynchronous tools
 * Wikis, blogs, content sharing platforms: persistent content and asynchronous communication
 * Affordances and limitations by time

Task grids
There are 7 tasks this week. As people work on tags, Diigo widgets on this page will fill with links to their results. Meanwhile, they only show the placeholder link to this week's Musical Interlude. Send questions about coursework that you believe are interesting to several people to ed534arcadia@googlegroups.com

Task 1
Conduct the algebra activity your prepared (Week 3 Task 1). You can teach it to a student or students you find locally, or online. If you don't have any students, we will arrange for online volunteers to work with you. Tell the story of how the activity went in your blog, in text or a screencast. Add the link to your post to [|the course Diigo group], using the tag **algebrateaching**. Make sure you choose Share to a Group option and select ED534Arcadia group.

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Task 2
Download [|GeoGebra], a free teaching and learning software. Build a GeoGebra applet, preferably about something related to your algebra activity. Make a screencast on how you and your students can use the applet. Add the link to [|the course Diigo group], using the tag **geogebra**. Make sure you choose Share to a Group option and select ED534Arcadia group.

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Task 3
If you have not yet, join the microblogging site [|Twitter]. Using search for keywords mathchat, elemchat, spedchat find tweets that interest you. Click on username or avatars of tweet's authors and see more of their streams. This way, find at least educators you would like to follow, and use the "follow" button to subscribe to their streams. Alternatively, you can search for streams from people you know - colleagues, book authors, speakers, friends - or educational entities you like - conferences, associations, museums and so on. Then write something using #mathchat and #ed534 anywhere in your tweet. This widget will pick it up. Until the week starts, it will just be showing #mathchat entries.

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Task 4
Find a paper, a blog post, a video or another media piece on the subject of PLN (personal learning network)

Task 5

 * Live task**

[|Full recording of the meeting]
Attend the weekly class meeting on Wednesday at 7:30pm Eastern US time. [|World Clock for other time zones.]

To join the meeting:
 * Follow this link: []
 * Click "OK" and "Accept" several times as your browser installs the software. When you see Elluminate Session Log-In, enter your name and click the "Login" button
 * You will find yourself in a virtual room. There is text chat, voice chat, and other tools. You need a headset to participate.
 * Recording will appear here after the meeting

If you can't make a meeting, review its recording, which will appear on this page after the event, on your blog, adding suggestions, questions and comments. You can use text or an embedded screencast for your review. Add the link to your blog post to this table:
 * //Name// || - || //Your meeting review url// ||

Task 6

 * Live task**

Attend a live event at one of online mathematics education communities. Here are some of the places where you can search for events:
 * Math Future Wednesdays 9:30pm ET or Saturdays 2pm ET (weeks alternate - see the list). Elluminate
 * #mathchat Mondays 3:30pm ET and Thursdays 7pm ET (every week). Twitter
 * [|Scratch] Fourth Monday of each month at 7pm ET. AdobeConnect
 * [|Wolfram Education] (multiple events each week). OnDemand
 * [|TappedIn] (times vary). TappedIn chat rooms

Briefly review the event you attended on your blog. Include the link to the recording of the event in your post. You can use text or an embedded screencast for your review. Add the link to your post to [|the course Diigo group], using the tag **week4event**. Make sure you choose Share to a Group option and select ED534Arcadia group.

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Task 7
If you do this optional task, you can count it toward a missed task for any week of the course.
 * Make-up task**