EDU2022/Barford  Link all your course projects to this page by Project #.  Redesign this page to correspond with the design you have chosen for your  personal Web site. Project uploads to your webpage are due during the week for which a project is listed on the course calendar.

See the course calendar for models, guidelines, tutorials.  You will receive paper checklists with points scales for evaluation of your projects.

Project 1:    Design your index.html file.  This page introduces you as an education major and teacher-to-be to the online visitor.  Quotes and graphics that reflect                        your professional and personal style are appropriate.  Create email and course links in a table on your index page.  Post your index page using
                   WinSCP file transfer.  Give credit for your images. Be sure they are not copyrighted or that you have obtained permission to use them.

Project 2:   Create your resume according to the Ed U. Cator educator's model resume  from EIU Career Services which is linked in your calendar.. 
                  Save the MSWord file as a .pdf file. Name your file resume.pdf,  and post it to the server.
                  Link your resume to this projects page and also directly to your index page.          

Project 3:  Post an active file of your most valued professional, academic, and personal Web resources..
                 For each site you save to this program, display the title, URL, and a few words(caption) about what you
                 found there.  Tag your sites with categories meaningful to you.
                 Examples of your categories might be Free_Graphics, Free_Music, Math, Standards, World_Hunger, Personal, etc.
                 This project may be completed  by using a delicious account.

Project 4:   Explore exemplary teacher sites as recommended on Mrs. Barford's web site.  Pay attention to how technology is supporting teacher/students/classroom
                  /community. Next explore your home high school, middle, or elementary school and a teacher with whom you may be familiar.
                  In Seamonkey Composer, write a short essay of three reflective paragraphs.  Describe what you found at the exemplary site, next what you found                                                                              in your home district, and finally make a critical comparison of the exemplary site with what you see on the web from your home district.
                  Embed six or more links to examples of how technology supports learning.   Link to children's work from the on-line school in one or
                  more of your linked examples.  Name this file techinschools.html

Project 5:   Create a personal page. Place your own photos, scanned images, and videos there. Independently download the program and
                  create a Photostory or an MS Moviemaker file, or an iMovie to enhance this page.  Add copyright free music to your photostory. For example.            

Project 6:   Select a issue impacting children's learning, according the the categories listed in the course calendar link.  Frame your investigation as an essential question.
                  Refer to Essential Questions links.  Carefully research your question.  Provide a bulleted list of rationale statements explaining the urgency of this question.
                  Anticipate using EQ strategies when developing curriculum for your future class.
                 
                  Use evaluation categories below to review an excellent website as a teacher and/or student resource for this
                  Essential Question.                
                  The site evaluation consists of narrative paragraphs for each evaluation category:  Accuracy and Authority, Content Relevance, Currency, and
                  Coverage,  Design and Navigation, Additional Resources. 
                  Be sure to prominently display the site title as a link to the reviewed site.  Center this linked title at the head of your review.
                  Give specific examples from the selected site in each of your narrative paragraphs to justify your evaluation.  Use your own words in your review.
                  Use quotation marks if you use words from the site itself.  Name this file currtheme.html   Design, link, and post the curriculum theme and site
                   evaluation page.

Project 7:   Use Inspiration software to develop a concept map.  A concept map is a graphic model of  avenues for exploration of the curriculum theme. 
                  Use the File drop-down menu to find the export command.  Export the Inspiration concept map as a .jpg file and
                   import it onto a Composer page.  Post this page (conceptmap.html) and the .jpg file to the Web. Link the concept map here and on the Curriculum
                   Theme page.  Remember that you will need to put two files on to the server: map.jpg  and map.html.

Project 8:   Use Excel and the GraphingWizard for a mathematical analysis related to your curriculum investigation.
                  Display your data and post your graph to the Web according to the tutorial in the Fewell/Gibbs text.
                  Name this file graph.html.  Link your graph here, on your projects page, and  also on your Curriculum Theme page.

Project 9:   Find or create a SmartBoard Activity in support of your curriculum theme.  Link the activity to Project  6.  On this page and as you link to Project 6,
                  carefully state the disclaimer that the SmartBoard activity can only be read in Notebook software.

Project 10:   Evaluate a WebQuest or Web Inquiry Project closely related to your curriculum theme.  Apply  Illinois
                    content standards for technology and ISTE standards which are met in your WQ/WIP.  Use
                    categories provided in the evaluation form linked here and provided in hardcopy in your course packet.  Turn in a
                    hard copy page of the applied standards and a hard copy of the WQ or WIP evaluation with your margin notes
                    explaining your rating. 

                   Link the URL of the related WebQuest to your curriculum theme page AND here as Project 10.

Project 11:   Using Audacity software, create a podcast explaining the importance and extent of your chosen curriculum theme.  Add music and sound
                    effects as appropriate.  Insert the link to your podcast at the beginning of your curriculum theme page, under the essential question title.

Project 12: Using PowerPoint software, and your own Poll Everywhere account, create a presentation on a Computer Ethics topic.  Your presentation should include explanation of the issue, your personal experience of the issue, and your current position on the issue.  Appropriate links should be imbedded in the presentation.  Save the presentation as a .mht file and link to Project 12, this page, with the disclaimer that the presentation as linked on the Web, cannot be read in the Seamonkey browser. (Use Explorer, Mozilla, etc.)


Happy Computing!