This course is designed to prepare pre-service teachers to be effective users of technology in their teaching. The class focuses on current technologies and strategies used in today's classrooms and also covers future advances that will likely impact teachers sometime soon. You will leave this course armed with new skills in several computer applications, but more importantly you will leave feeling confident and empowered to use technology to enhance your future teaching.

Instructor

Bernie Dodge, PhD email: bdodge@mail.sdsu.edu Office: NE-288 Phone: 619.594-7401 Skype: bdodgesd | Twitter:berniedodge | Facebook: berniedodge Bio: I've been teaching at SDSU since 1980 when all we had to work with was 2 Apple ]['s. In addition to 470, I teach courses in simulation and game design, geotools, problem-based learning, and the psychology of technology-based learning. My first teaching job was in the Peace Corps where I inflicted New Math on the innocent children of Sierra Leone. Today, I enjoy travel, photography, stargazing, sci-fi, and teaching myself web design tools like jquery and mysql. My wife's a far better cook than I but I still like to try on occasion.

Course Goals

At the completion of this course, you will be able to:

1. Develop a web site to present yourself as a teacher, display professional work, and communicate expectations to students and parents.
2. Design lessons that allow your learners to express themselves creatively.
3. Use a variety of tools to present information in the classroom.
4. Assess student learning with software tools.
5. Describe leading edge examples of technology integration and put them in the context of generational differences and global trends.
6. Efficiently find resources on the web for use in the classroom.
7. Explain legal, social and ethical issues around copyright, fair use, internet safety and digital citizenship.
8. Develop a personal system for finding, organizing, sharing and remembering information vital to your ongoing growth as a professional.
9. Design and develop a complete web-based lesson that engages learners in higher-order thinking.

Prerequisites

You will need to be familiar with intermediate word processing and basic skills using email and the web. If you are not familiar with these please speak with your instructor about how to get up to speed.

Students in EDTEC 470 are expected to...

Attend and participate in classes. In-class activities, discussion, group work and demonstrations are important for applying educational technology concepts and methods and will contribute to your course participation grade. Please be on time for class. Latecomers are distracting to all of us. EDTEC 470 is a class for teachers, so you will be expected to participate as a professional.

If you need to miss a class, you should let your instructor know as soon as possible via email. When you miss a class, you are responsible for making up any missed work. Please visit the course schedule and read through the materials and assignments for the class you have missed. Contact a peer or the instructor with any questions you might have about the content you missed. Speak more with your instructor if you should need an extension on an assignment due to your absence.

Assignments

Assignments are tied to specific lessons in the class. Points are credited to each assignment based on timeliness, effort and level of completion, creativity/originality and technical proficiency. Assignments turned in late will receive only half credit. Assignments more than two weeks late will receive no credit. All assignments are to be submitted by linking them to the professional web site created in this course, unless otherwise noted by your instructor. Submit them before class starts on the day they are due unless otherwise noted by the instructor. Always save a copy of your work to your USB drive or personal computer, just in case.

Assignment and Grading Due Weight Mini-Projects Varies 40% Music Video Class 5 10% Personal Learning System Class 8 10% WebQuest Class 14 25% Professional Web Site Class 15 15% Total   100%

Students with Special Needs

Students with special needs should speak with the instruction privately during the first week of class via email and / or contact Student Disability Services at San Diego State University at http://www.sa.sdsu.edu/sds/index.html.

Grading

Please keep in mind the following definitions of grading standards from the SDSU General Catalog: A = Outstanding achievement; available only for the highest accomplishment B = Praiseworthy performance; definitely above average C = average; awarded for satisfactory performance... The bottom line is this: A's are reserved for exemplary performance that goes beyond expectations.

Grade Letter Points A 95-100 A- 90-94 B+ 87-89 B 83-86 B- 80-82 C+ 77-79 And so on... 76 and below

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