{"id":15446,"date":"2021-09-18T13:23:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T17:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/?p=15446"},"modified":"2021-09-18T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T17:23:22","slug":"wk-4-sept-20-26-async","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/2021\/09\/18\/wk-4-sept-20-26-async\/","title":{"rendered":"Wk 4: Sept 20-26 Async"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>CEP 956 Week 4 Announcement<br \/><\/strong>Email Communication<br \/>Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Subject: CEP 956: Assignment Feedback &amp; Reminders for Week 4<br \/><br \/>Hi Abdu, Betul, Jeong, Suha,\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for a great asynchronous and synchronous discussion last week. I enjoyed learning more about each of you, your ideas, and your article interests!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This email contains important information as we look forward to\u00a0<strong>CEP 956 Week 4 online (September 20-26)<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0Thank you for reading this email carefully. Note the assignments for this coming week, which we went over when we met on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Login to the course site to see the schedule for this week<\/strong>\u00a0(Sept 20-26):\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wk-4-sept-27-synchronous-class\/<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>BASE GROUP CHECK-IN\/CHECK-OUTS:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Betul, Jeong, Suha, please\u00a0<strong><u>Check-in<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0with your Base Group (#1) at the beginning of the week by answering the Base Group\u00a0<em>Check-in questions<\/em>\u00a0early in the week (e.g., Tues or Wed) and then,\u00a0<strong><u>Check-out<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0by answering the\u00a0<em>Check-out questions<\/em>\u00a0at the end of the week.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) Login to the course website.<br \/>2) Then, go to that week\u2019s\u00a0<strong>schedule page<\/strong>\u00a0and find the Base Group Check-in (or Check-out) question for the week (e.g.,\u00a0<strong>W4 Sept 20-26 Online<\/strong>\u00a0from the drop-down menu)<br \/>3) Email or otherwise contact your Base Group members when you have Checked-in and Checked-out to let them know you have done so. This way the group can help support its members, get to know its members, and build trust over time.<br \/>4) To see how your answers and scores compare with your group overall, go to the\u00a0<strong>Base Groups<\/strong>\u00a0page. Find your Base Group.\u00a0\u00a0Click on your group and find the appropriate tab at the top to see the other member(s) Check-in or Check-out Answers.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Abdu, I was unable to assign you to a base group because your username is not showing up in my list of \u201cUsers\u201d for the course website, and I\u2019m not sure why, so I am looking into what the issue might be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW!\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Interest Statement Feedback now in D2L<\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>If you submitted your Interest Statement to the D2L Assignment Dropbox, you will now find my feedback to you.\u00a0\u00a0Please let me know if you have any questions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Also, you will need to choose a topic, have an abstract for your article, and have chosen a journal to do your cover letter assignment. I\u2019m happy to talk with you if a short chat would be helpful as you work on your cover letters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>READINGS &amp; ONLINE DISCUSSION<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cDefining Social Media and Learning in Society\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>Last week we discussed Clark and Kozma\u2019s debate on\u00a0<em>do\/can\/will\/how do<\/em>\u00a0media influence learning? We touched on the importance of underlying epistemologies (e.g., Clark\u2019s positivist versus interpretivist orientations to research), the importance of theoretical framing and assumptions (e.g., behaviorism, constructivism), conceptions of learning and media, and the intellectual history upon which even asking such questions is based.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This week you are asked to read several papers on\u00a0<em>(social) media<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>learning<\/em>\u00a0and consider how we ought to define these terms in a particular context with a particular underlying learning theory.\u00a0\u00a0 See the readings by Manca &amp; Ranieri, Greenhow et al., and Cormode &amp; Krishnamurphy on this week\u2019s schedule page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Social media activity \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Choose a social media to explore as a learner, teacher, and scholar<\/li>\n<li>If you haven\u2019t already set up a profile and start using the social media during this next asynchronous week<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdpPdNN6P5ZLP4FM9pfQOjNo_BDg9nbIDp1qmf9xWktkwlSAw\/formResponse\">Example<\/a>of Social Media Activity Reflection questions<\/li>\n<li>Be ready to share what you\u2019ve done &amp; link to your site on\u00a0<strong>Monday, Sept 27<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Defining Social Media &amp; Learning<\/strong>Readings\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Post initial responses to discussion forum questions by\u00a0<strong>Thursday, September 23 at midnight EST.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Post responses to at least 2 peers (per question) by\u00a0<strong>Saturday, September 25 at midnight EST.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Base Group 1 Discussion Synthesis\u00a0<\/strong>of Week 4 online discussion due in the forum by\u00a0<strong>noon<\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>Monday, September 27.\u00a0<\/strong>See directions\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/about\/course-overview\/\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cover letter\u00a0<\/strong>for publishable article due\u00a0<strong>before class<\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>Monday, September 27<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Submit to Dropbox in D2L<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>See the examples we went over in class on the Article for Publication page \u2013&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1_j1lt0wbNwPDkVJMMdi0RIrKEmVcgGhZ9yUyStV8LgE\/edit\">sample cover letters<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>As we went over in class, see criteria for this Assignment and Sample Cover Letters on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs20\/article-for-publication\/\">Article for Publication page \u2013 check out the \u201cSample Cover letters\u201d especially the first 3 pages of the Sample document to see two emailed cover letters which ended in successfully published articles by two of our EPET doc students.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>(*<em>Note<\/em>: the first page of the sample shows you how I will score your cover letter\/email inquiry to the editor).<\/li>\n<li>Be ready to share your Cover Letter when we meet synchronously on 9\/27.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Outline<\/strong>\u00a0for publishable article due before class on\u00a0<strong>Monday, October 11<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>We will talk about this on 9\/27 but, as I mentioned in class, one way to overcome the scary blank page is to do a table of contents search in the journal you are targeting and find a few examples of articles that look like the one you want to write. Break it down: how is their article organized, roughly how many words per section? See the journal\u2019s guidelines for authors to help you know what they require in their articles and guide your outline. Skim the journal\u2019s most recent editorials to help you know what editors are looking for and use this info to help inform your outline.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any questions for me, please let me know.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, and see you online!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chris<a href=\"http:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs20\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=15371&amp;action=edit\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong>\u00a0If you lose track of this email, no problem. I post weekly emailed reminders in the upper right-hand corner of the class website.\u00a0\ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEP 956 Week 4 Announcement<br \/>Email Communication<br \/>Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Subject: CEP 956: Assignment Feedback &amp; Reminders for Week 4<\/p>\n<p>Hi Abdu, Betul, Jeong, Suha,\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for a great asynchronous and synchronous discussion last week. I enjoyed learning more about each of you, your ideas, and your article interests!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This email [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15447,"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446\/revisions\/15447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenhow.educ.msu.edu\/cep956fs21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}