Course
Calendar, spring '08 JUDY BARFORD, BB2205, 581-7885 jbarford@eiu.edu guidelines roster section 2 *Student Web work will be in progress throughout the semester. EDU2022 project page template -- use for linking of projects, descriptions, and explanations. |
Course Calendar
Date by Week | Topics and Activities -- also see projects template | Resources | Due |
1/8 |
Course overview, lab
policies, tech survey, interviews and presentations of current
class computer favorites eiu logins
and passwords Lucas video and notes. Definitions. Your EIU pen server account. purchase: flash drive for coursework, course packet, LiveText account if you are certain that you will be going on for certification |
Shelly Cashman, Chapter 1 video -- Jim Diekman's class, Chula Vista California, from the George Lucas Educational Foundation |
working password
flash drive |
1/15 |
How schools are using the Web Links
to schools Finding
Composer. Writing your EIU index page, saving to flash,
posting to your pen account, using WinSCP. Looking ahead
to the resume project. |
Composer
Tutorials resume handout from EIU Career Services at the site, see resume formats, chronological for the education resume format. |
Write your EIU index page -- first draft Individual Reading S/C selected chapter report |
1/22 |
Creating internal and absolute links with
Composer. Making changes. Using refresh in FTP. Using Reload in Navigator/ Explorer to show re-postings. Continuing the resume project according to the EIU Career Services format. |
tutorials as above, plus Netscape Composer Hints&Advice for reading and writing with technology see http://eduscapes.com/sessions/experience/readwrite1.htm |
index.html posted |
1/29 |
What is .pdf -- its advantages. Looking ahead to the
sites-in-use project. Searching for teacher resumes. searching strategies from UC Berkeley http://electronicportfolios.com/ See also your new LiveText site. LiveText models. |
Shelly Cashman Chapter 2 packet resume handout from EIU Career Services |
post the resume as .pdf Individual Reading S/C selected chapter report
|
2/7 |
Continue sites-in-use according to course projects page
description. Look ahead to the Curriculum Theme assignment . Select a theme and begin searching. Smart Research from NoodleTools. Save sites by creating a Sites-in-Use page to use as an electronic closet or file drawer throughout the course. Post (FTP) this page. |
course packet: essential questions S/C Chapter 2 Making Changes tutorial |
post Sites-in-Use page
Individual Reading |
2/14 |
Explore school
sites. Find children's work posted on the Web in the
subject area and at the grade level of your choice.
Reflect
on the uses you see for technology using examples from your findings..
Recall S/C chapter 1. Write a short
essay on how technology is supporting learning,
as you see in the children's work online. See further guidelines in the
projects
page. |
Roblyer pp. 47-54 in packet See Education World's Featured Teachers McKenzie, J. (1998) Grazing the net: Raising a generation of free range chickens. Phi Delta Kappan. [online] http://www.fno.org/text/grazing.html |
Post the Technology in Classrooms page Individual Reading S/C selected chapter report . |
2/21 |
Assure that your graphics and images are free or that you
have obtained permission from the copyright holder to use them. Give credit to your graphics sources. Great resources! from Pocantico Hills School., for SmartBoard, podcasting, creating your Web page, continuing to work on your curriculum theme EQ. Create a personal page using digital and scanned photos which you choose as appropriate. Review for midterm. Technology History and scientific milestones |
Roblyer, pp.21-24 & 33-38 in packet free graphics at: http://www.bellsnwhistles.com/ Computer History (see also S/C Ch. 1) History of technology and computing handouts
S/C Chapter 1 |
Study
for midterm, (terms list will be revised to include Web 2.0 terms) |
2/28 |
Fun with Microsoft Word. Page
design with Word Art, images,
tables,
and columns. Newsletters, labels, book plates, business cards. Integrating MSWord with PowerPoint -- more easy projects from Tammy Worster's Technology Tips |
S/C Chapters 3 & 4 Fewell/Gibbs, Ch. 3 |
Create a labels page Midterm exam |
3/6 |
(Create a
sound file for your page according to the tutorial in your
packet.) Sp 08 -- Create a podcast using Audacity software for
your
creative project. See Learning in
Hand tutorial Assistive Technology, South Carolina |
S/C Chaper 5 multimedia Kids' podcasts, examples: Project WOW, WillowWeb, Mr. Coley's 5th grade Voices of the World |
Link and post .mp3 file |
3/20 |
Select a curriculum
theme on a social/global justice issue. MovieMaker, PhotoStory, Smartboard, etc. groups organize for |
See Henking School vodcasts http://www.glenview34.org/he/ must view in Explorer, not Netscape Packet: Essential ?'s |
Post rationale for theme and site evaluation MovieMaker, PhotoStory, KidPix teams plan to create and present |
3/27 |
Create a concept map for your curriculum theme with Inspiration software File-export your conceptmap to your disk as a .gif file. Import the map as an image to your Project 7 template page. a sample concept map Turning Point demonstration |
sample in packet | Post concept map |
4/3 |
Use Excel and the Graphing Wizard for a mathematical analysis
related
to your curriculum theme. Add 4 questions to your htm file to help
children
to draw conclusions from the data regarding the curriculum theme. Example
w/o questions. 2005 data of the State of the World's Children from UNICEF |
packet sample of data and graph Fewell/Gibbs, Ch. 5 |
Post graph
Begin LiveText
document |
4/10 |
The field of computer ethics. Topics and issues. Project guidelines and criteria for points are in your course WebCT account. ** Be sure you have your password from Student Services for the WebCT server. This password is different from your password for the pen server. For threading the discussion -- distinguish between the Compose command and the Reply command. | Turning Point, student response system, demo. www.eiu.edu/vce S/C Ch. 8 |
Posting to the Course WebCT discussion of issues in computer ethics |
4/17 |
WebQuest, Web Inquiry Project
evaluation.
Use the rubric
in your packet and linked here. Apply each category of the rubric
to
your
selection of an exemplary WebQuest or WIP. On your Web page, create links to your Inspiration concept map and to your graph of data analysis as it closely applies. List selected ISTE standards, and Illinois content standards for technology which are met through your selected WQ/WIP. The standards are on the Web and in your course packet. |
WebQuest
links and samples packet article Molebash & Dodge 2003 see also: Web Literacy and Critical Thinking
|
Evaluate a WQ/WIP related to your curriculum theme on
a
social/global
justice issue. See projects page instructions.
Post evaluated WQ link for curriculum theme w. links |
4/24 |
Presentations.of creative projects Study guide for final exam LiveText submissions |
S/C Chapter 6, esp. theorists whose work has contributed to
constructivist teaching and learning Recommended article: David Jakes "Not Your Father's PowerPoint" |
creative projects presentations Attach your Web page URL to your LiveText document |
*** | Final Exams as
scheduled, the total exam period will be used: section 2 -- Tuesday, April 29, 8:00-10:00 |
receive graded course documentation |
submit course evaluation |