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EDTEC 296 Course Syllabus - Page 2
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Instructor - Technologies -
Participation - Academic Integrity
- Disabilities
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About the Instructor
Jim
Julius, M.A.T. I am in my third year of the SDSU-USD joint doctoral
program in education. Prior to coming to San Diego, I acquired ten years
of professional experience divided evenly between software engineering
and teaching 4th/5th grade. Over the last three years I have been teaching
educational technology courses to pre-service and in-service teachers
and administrators at SDSU and USD. I also am currently the coordinator
of the Center for Learning and Teaching at USD. Please call me
“Jim.”
Websites: http://eprentice.sdsu.edu/F0210/Julius/Publish/, Flickr, del.icio.us, blog
If you have a concern that doesn’t require an immediate response, email is the best way to communicate with me. If you need more extensive assistance right away, try my office number (listed at top of this page) during the day, or in the evening, use my home phone number (I will give in class). If you wish to meet with me personally, please set up an appointment with me.
Technologies
This course will give you the opportunity to use some technologies you are probably already familiar with, as well as explore others which you may not know as well. Below are some of the tools with links which may help give you any needed background.
A web browser of your choice, of course. I highly recommend Mozilla Firefox.
Moodle
is the course management system we'll be using.
Adobe
Acrobat
Reader - for reading PDF files
Microsoft PowerPoint for presentations and Word for word processing.
Inspiration
for concept mapping. Mostly this will just be used in class, but if you
want to try it at home, you can get a 30-day free trial download from
their website.
Blogger for blogging (duh).
Words of Wisdom about Participation
This course is all about the importance of social contexts in the learning process. Attendance and full participation are expected. You and your classmates will get much more out of this experience by choosing to be fully engaged. Many class periods involve special guests and group work which can not be made up in any meaningful way.
If you miss a class you are expected to take the initiative to contact the instructor and make arrangements to try to compensate for what you missed, if possible. Attendance will be taken at each class, and a missed class will result in one percentage point deducted from your class grade unless you have come to an understanding with the instructor regarding the absence.
Similarly, late work also represents less than full engagement in the class. Each day that assignments are late will result in a deduction of one class percentage point from the grade. For example, if an assignment is worth 20% of the class grade and is turned in one day late, you will only be able to score 19 points on it, not 20. In group work situations, clearly this can pose problems if one group member fails to uphold his/her part. Don't be that person! If you are a group member feeling victimized by someone else in your group, please get in touch with the instructor.
Some thoughts on constructive participation:
The Disciplines of Dialogue (from Sue Miller Hurst):
- Listen
- Suspend certainty
- Slow down inquiry
- Hold the space for differences
- Speak from awareness
From Deborah Meier: the Habits of Mind
(see The Power of Their Ideas, Beacon Press, Boston, 1995. p. 156)
- How do you know what you know?
- What's your evidence?
- How and where does what you've learned "fit in"?
- Could things have been otherwise?
- Who cares, what difference does it make?
Conduct yourself as honorably on line as you do in class. If you are uncertain about netiquette, check this link: SDSU Netiquette.
Finally, please ask questions. It is the best way for you to learn, and I will teach better if I know more about what you need to know and want to know. Do not hesitate - someone else in the class will be wondering the same thing. THANK YOU!
Academic Integrity
Academic dishonesty is an affront to the integrity of scholarship at SDSU and a threat to the quality of learning. Violations of academic integrity are noted in the SDSU Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities:
Examples of cheating include unauthorized sharing of answers during an exam, use of unauthorized notes or study materials during an exam, altering an exam and resubmitting it for regrading, having another student take an exam for you or submit assignments in your name, participating in unauthorized collaboration on coursework to be graded, providing false data for a research paper, or creating/citing false or fictitious references for a term paper. (Submitting the same paper for multiple classes may also be considered cheating if not authorized by the instructors involved). Examples of plagiarism include any attempt to take credit for work that is not your own, such as using direct quotes from an author without using quotation marks or indentation in a paper, paraphrasing work that is not your own without giving credit to the original source of the idea, or failing to properly cite all sources in the body of your work.
[Note: The same standards for plagiarism in academic papers also apply to your blogs: cite your sources!]
An act of dishonesty can lead to penalties in a course such as reduction of grade, withdrawal from the course, a requirement that all or part of a course be retaken, and/or a requirement that additional work be undertaken in connection with the course. Serious acts may lead to probation, suspension, or expulsion from the university.
Disabilities
Students with disabilities who believe that they may need accommodations in the class are encouraged to contact Disability Services in Student Services West, 1661 (594-6473) as soon as possible to better ensure that such accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.
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