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=IDC 4U - Unit 1= **Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies: Innovative Technology for New Learning and Across the Curriculum**

Key Concepts
 * Digital Audio & Video
 * 1) Explore the many venues where digital audio and video is available, and how it is used
 * 2) Ask students to share what they use, what they do, what they enjoy
 * 3) Explore the ways that digital audio and visual can be used in the course.
 * Blended, F2F, and Online Learning
 * 1) Blended Option: F2F in-class discussion, group project development, and practise in presenting to live audience with extensive use of media and on-line resources for research, creation and production of presentation materials, some of which will be posted on-line and some of which will be presented live.
 * 2) Exploration of commercial sites such as Adobe where learners are posting technique videos and short tutorials
 * 3) Get students to develop a short tutorial and post it to the same site(s)
 * Constructivism, Connectivism, and PBL - Project-Based Learning
 * Open Source Software

Additional Ideas
 * 1) Not all students will have the same level of expertise, so there will be a necessity for peer tutoring in the applications.
 * 2) As projects are developed, exemplars will be able to be collected and passed on to the next class and teacher

Teaching Strategies
 * Old-fashioned show and tell - once a week students will share what they have found, learned, enjoyed on-line
 * Have a ipod/mp3 docking station in the class room so that students can share with the class the music or other content on their ipods
 * Have a digital picture frame outside the classroom to generate interest in what is going on in the interdisciplinary course - document the course progress and update the digital display on a regular basis
 * Set a blog for the class, and rotate the responsibility to monitor the posts through the class list