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Wiki for Capstone Project 2010 EDUC 7900: Capstone with Dr. Jennifer Smolka  Wiki Organizers: Cassandra Moore, Sherry Breeden, & Sarah Crawford For this capstone project, our learning community will create a one week collaborative project where three classes, represented by our learning community, will collaborate to create digital posters about their communities. This project will utilize digital tools for communication, project creation, project research, and group collaborations.


 * Our Visual Representation of AECT's New Definition of Educational Technology **

=== Table Identifying Our Learning Community Experts  (based on AECT's New Definition of Educational Technology)   ===

**Expert** || **Definition** ||
 * **Definition Concept** || **Learning Community**
 * **Facilitating Learning, Ch. 2** || Sherry Breeden || =====__//**Facilitating Learning**//__ refers to the facilitation of learning by the intended audience. The learner is the focus not the Educational Technology. Through facilitating learning you will provide a safe environment that includes external devices that aid in the learning experience or that “help to facilitate learning. These might include any of the following: Hardware, software, teacher assistance, intervention strategies, and so on. ===== ||
 * **Improving Performance, Ch 3** || Cassandra Moore || Improving performance in educational technology deals with the ways in which technology can enhance the performance of individual learners, teachers, designers and organizations. They can be done by using technology to improve both efficiency and effectiveness. ||
 * **Creating, Ch 4** ||< Sherry Breeden || __//**Creating**//__ refers to the creation of materials for instructional purposes. There are many different types of materials and systems for learning that use multiple design approaches to include aesthetic, scientific, engineering, psychological, procedural, and or systematic. Each of these approaches can be utilized to generate the materials and the appropriate conditions for your learning environment. ||
 * **Using, Ch. 5** || Cassandra Moore || **//Using //** technology is selecting, planning, utilizing and evaluating appropriate technology resources to create conditions conducive to learning; however there are social and economic factors that can influence each learning environment. ||
 * **Managing, Ch. 6** || Sarah Crawford || ====**Managing** is using effective means to plan, monitor, and control all resources, personnel, services and programs related to the desired outcome.====

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 * **Ethical Considerations, Ch. 11** || Sarah Crawford || ==== ====

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 * **Processes, Ch. 7** || Everyone || //**Processes **//are organizing technology framework in a series of meaningful activities that support a subject or theme. These processes are applied with the intent to facilitate learning and improve performance. - Cassandra

A **process** is the synergy of systematic processes, actions, or functions which will lead to a predictable result which could include a product or the beginning of an additional process. - Sarah
__//**Processes**//__ refers to the actions, procedures, methods, and resources that are used to accomplish learning goals and outcomes. - Sherry ||
 * **Resources, Ch. 8** || Everyone || //**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Resources **//can be defined as tools, materials, devices, people and settings that learners interact with to improve learning and performance through the use of technology. - Cassandra

A **resource** is a tool, device, setting, material, or person which is appropriate for the desired goal in a process-centered activity which improves learning and performance. - Sarah
__//**Resources**//__ refers to the materials, tools, software, hardware, people, and places that are utilized to facilitate the learning process. - Sherry || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Januszewski, A. & Molenda, M. (Eds.). (2008). Educational technology: A definition with commentary. New York, NY: Routledge.