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Educational Technology 470 -- Fall
1998
T2ARP Section
Instructor:
Don
Beck
Topics
It's not easy being a teacher today. Not only do you have the
challenge of delivering appropriate material to your students, but
you also have to keep your students motivated, keep the parents
involved, and keep the school administration informed and happy with
your progress. Many of these challenges can be made simpler through
the appropriate uses of educational technology. In this course, you
will be exposed to a variety of skills and knowledge of educational
technology appropriate to classroom teachers. Although it takes most
people three to five years to incorporate and use educational
technologies in the classroom without feeling overwhelmed, this time
lag can be reduced when instructional activities reflect real-life
needs of classroom teachers. To help accomplish this, we will have
you work with the following skills and knowledge in EdTec 470.
Skills
- Develop educational signs, posters, or banners for use in the
classroom.
- Create and edit a document with a word processing
program.
- Use desktop publication techniques to produce a newsletter
with pictures or graphics.
- Create personalize mailings by combining word processing
programs and databases.
- Create a grade book or other numerical compilation program
with spreadsheet software.
- Access distant educational sites through
telecommunications.
- Evaluate examples of educational software.
- Produce an educational video.
- Design and develop an instructional multimedia program.
- Develop techniques to incorporate technology into regular
classroom activities.
Knowledge
- Explain how instructional media can be effectively integrated
into a lesson plan.
- Define various types of higher level thinking skills and
describe how educational technologies can help students develop
these skills.
- Describe how various hands-on computer and video tools can
enhance student creativity.
- Describe how and why educational technology is becoming
increasingly important in schools.
- Describe the legal, ethical, and social issues involved in
technology usage.
- Discuss methods in which a "one computer classroom" can
enhance curricular materials through cooperative and collaborative
activities.
- Explain copyright limits on print, computer, and video
media.
- Describe how instructional software can be used to meet the
needs of individual learners.
- Describe ways in which students can use telecommunications to
increase their understanding of a subject domain and enhance their
learning opportunities.
- Describe how to empower student learning through the use of
constructivist principles.
Tentative Course Schedule
Class 1 Encanto Project
Topics
- Introduction to the community
- Visiting/interviewing communtiy in which we teach
- Intro to the Macintosh & ClarisHomePage
Demonstration / Lab
DUE: #1.
Encanto Project
Class 2 Telecommunications
Topics
- Telecommunications
- Collaboration with other classrooms and schools
- Planning your homepage
Demonstration / Lab
- Netscape
- Email
- List-serve: ongoing sharing and comments by and for student
teachers in block
- To subscribe to the t2arp list, students should send a
message to majordomo@lists.sdsu.edu
- In the body of the message, put:
subscribe t2arp
myusername@my-isp.com
- Digital camera/scanner: class pictures
- HomePage Template: in class project for Homepages of T2ARP
section
Class 3 Graphics&endash;Draw, Paint, CW Intro
Topics
- Generating graphics
- Locating, cutting, and pasting graphics
- Broderbund Print Shop Deluxe
Demonstration / Lab
- ClarisWorks graphics, assistants, and slide show
- Broderbund's KidPixs
Due: #2. HomePage
Class 4 Word Processing
Topics
- Beginning and intermediate skills in word processing
- The word processor as a teacher tool
Demonstration / Lab
- Way things Work (CD)
- ClarisWorks word processing & graphics libraries
Due: #3.
Classroom poster or certificate
Class 5 Desktop Publishing
Topics
- Teacher products with a professional look
- Publishingwith CW
Demonstration / Lab
- Combining text and graphics; Scanning images
- Screen Grabbers, Graphic utilities
- Sunburst's StoryBook Weaver
- Learning Co. Children's Writing Center
Due: #4.
Resume
Class 6 Desktop Presentation &
Educational Goals/Lessons
Topics
- CW Slide Show & Assistant; MS Powerpoint
- Educational Goals & Objectives
- Introduce Planalyst
Demonstration / Lab
- Parts of a lesson: preparing Lessonwith Planalyst
- CD Encyclopedias
Class 7 Database: Curriculuar &
Utility Use
Topics
- Utility: Records, mailmerge, labels
- Database in instruction: Infusing higher level thinking skills
into the classroom with databases
Demonstration / Lab
- Basic CW database features incl mailmerge
- Steps in Databse use in curriculum
- Swamp Gas
Due: #5:
Newsletter
Class 8 Spreadsheet: Curriculuar
& Utility Use
Topics
- Utility: grade books, budgetting, planning
- Spreadsheet in instruction: Infusing higher level thinking
skills into the classroom with spreadsheets
- Spreadsheet in instruction: graphing
Demonstration / Lab
- Basic CW spreadsheet features: including graphing
- Using spreadsheet in class instruction
- SGradebusters, intro hyperstudio stacks
Due: #6
PLANalyst
Class 9 WebQuests: Utilizing Internet in
Class Curriculum
Topics
- WebQuests
- Connections: Triton project, Blue Webyn, etc.
- Web Page production: ClarisHomePage
Demonstration / Lab
- Planning a limited web quest: examples
- Video Conferencing
- Educational List-servs: I*EARN
Class 10 Hypermedia
Topics
- What is Hypermedia?
- Planning interactive multimedia
- Stacks, cards, buttons, and fields
Demonstration / Lab
- Roger Wagoner's HyperStudio
- Examining student projects from previous semesters
- SimCity; Tinies
Class 11 Interactive
Media
Topics
- Development of interactive multimedia
- Graphics, animation and sound
Demonstration / Lab
- Voyager CD: Beethovern
- Quicktime movies
- Moving gifs
Class 12 Video in the
Classroom
Topics
- Uses of video in the classroom
- Student, teacher, and professionally developed videotapes
Demonstration / Lab
- Developing a video plan
- Video camcorder operation
- Student projects from previous semesters
- Quicktime from videos: movies & stills
Class 13 Instructional
Software
Topics
- Software Categrory schemes
- Copyright & Public Domain
- Instructional objectives
- Evaluating Software
Demonstration / Lab
- Software explorations in class
- Debriefing/sharing
Due: #7 WebQuest
Class 14 Optical Media; Social, Ethical,
and Technical Issues
Topics
- Individualizing learning with computers
- Instructional software in the content area
- Optical storage; CD-ROM and Laser discs
- Equity
- Access
- The "One computer classroom"
Demonstration / Lab
- Quiz Review
- ABC Nerws '88
Class 15 Exam & Catchup
Quiz
Demonstration / Lab
Class 16 Sharing &
Evaluations
Topics
- Course Evaluatrions
- Reviewing QUiz
- Sharing projects
Due Technology
Integration Choice Project due
Readings and supplies
Packets of required readings will be available at the University
Bookstore. All handouts will be printed on 3-hole punched paper. To
help learn the software used in this course, you may either purchase
ClarisWorks and use the manual or use the on-line help system on the
computers. You will probably also want to purchase at least two blank
diskettes for saving your data files and for copying public domain,
freeware, and shareware software. You can buy diskettes in the IML
lab (NE 275) or at any computer store.
- The required course textbook is the set of Xerox notes: "EdTec
470" by Ritchie.
- Optional books you may wish to purchase are
"ClarisWorks for Teachers" by Claris, "ClarisWorkshop", and
"HyperStudio" by Cochran
Course work
Please be aware that there is not time within the class
hours to complete your assignments. Class time will be used to
discuss conceptual materials related to educational technologies,
demonstrate techniques and products you may wish to use in your
classroom, and assist with your developing skills. Obtaining a
satisfactory grade will require that you spend additional time
working on your assignments beyond classroom hours.
Lab Hours
The tentative hours for the Instructional
Media Lab (IML) NE 275 is Monday-Thursday, 8:30 am-6:45 pm,
Friday 8:30 am-3:45 pm, and Saturdays 9:00 am-2:45 pm. If hours
change, they will be posted on the lab door. Another Macintosh lab
exists in the Student Services Building. All software demonstrated in
class will be available in the IML. If you have access to other
software and hardware that allow you to complete comparable actions,
you may use that software for your assignments.
Be aware, however, that neither the lab staff nor the teaching
staff may be able to help you if you use different hardware and
software. Although the persons who serve as lab staff are available
to assist with problems, they are not paid to instruct students in
how to use the software. If you don't know how to perform an action,
please refer to your notes, consult the help section of the software,
or ask your instructor.
T2ARP Students: Please contact Don Beck if extra
assistance is needed. Times in labs (at O'Farrell for example) can be
arranged in lieu of office hours.
Evaluation & Grades
The grading system for the semester is as follows:
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A- 90.0 - 92.9%
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A 93.0 - 100%
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B- 80.0 - 82.9%
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B 83.0 - 86.9%
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B+ 87.0 - 89.9%
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C- 70.0 - 72.9%
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C 73.0 - 76.9%
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C+ 77.0 - 79.9%
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D- 60.0 - 62.9%
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D 63.0 - 66.99
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D+ 67.0 - 69.9%
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Required Assignments
During the semester, we will demonstrate a variety of activities
which can be incorporated into your classroom teaching. Although we
would like you to become familiar with each of the topics, we will
only ask you to complete eight assignments during the semester: seven
required projects (2 in-class assignments, five competency
requirements) and one technology integration project of choice). Your
four required assignments include the creation of an educationally
relevant:
- Web publishing: Encanto Project about the community in which
you teach (in class &endash; 5 pts)
- HomePages made using template with ClarisHomePage (in class
&endash; 10 pts)
- Sign/Certificate for your
classroom, students (5 pts)
- Resume/Letter for yourself or
use in classroom (5 pts)
- Newsletter for your
classroom, parents, or fellow teachers (10 pts)
- PLANalyst lesson used to
present lesson plan for another Ed class (5 pts)
- WebQuest - short format (15 pts): The purpose
of this assignment is to have students probe the World Wide Web in
search of data to draw conclusions to a problem. See the WebQuest
page for background information on WebQuests, view the rubric,
and check out previous 470 WebQuests on China,
sustainable
resources, whales,
Washington DC, art
forgeries, pentagrams,
deserts, rainforests,
Native Americans, or
Christmas around the
world.
In addition to these required assignments, you will also need to
complete one assignment chosen below.
One "Choice" Assignments
In this technology assignment, you will be responsible for
creating a lesson which shows how a specific technology can be
integrated into a curriculum. In addition to the product, your
project should contain these cover materials:
- A word processed paragraph explaining the purpose of the
product.
- A short lesson plan identifying preceding and ensuing events
of instruction.
- A debriefing as to how the product should help improve
learning.
- A description as to how you hope to improve the activity in
the future.
The choice of the product is up to you. It should be appropriate
to the population you will be working with in your situation. The
choices and brief descriptions follow. Other ideas will be considered
on an individual basis.
- Collaborative telecommunications (15 pts): In this
activity you will identify and participate in an Internet or
E-mail activity for you and your students to research or share
knowledge with students outside the San Diego area.
- Class Newsletter (15 pts): Newsletters provide students
the opportunity to publish their material for a much wider
audiencethan the teacher. In this assignment you will need to
orchestrate your students in creating a class letter that involves
each of your students. Students may want to incorporate stories,
graphics, and pictures. Check with instructor for permission
before beginning this assignment.
- Spreadsheet or database (15 pts): In
Weeks 7 & 8 we will conduct classroom activities in which
databases and spreadsheets are used for instructional purposes,
helping develop students' higher level thinking skills. You may
use these examples as a basis for your project. You will need to
compile valid, relevant numerical (spreadsheet) or text (database)
information that can be manipulated to help students analyze raw
data. See the spreadsheet example
titled "Speed Due to Gravity" or the database example titled
"Donner.db" in the 470 folder of the fileserver to give you ideas
as to how these can be generated.
- HyperMedia (15pts): The
purpose of this exercise is for you to become competent with the
program HyperStudio. The ultimate goal is not for you to create
massive programs, but instead to teach the program to your
students so they may work with an authoring system to demonstrate
their knowledge of a subject.
Final Exam
The exam will be constructed to measure your basic computer
knowledge as well as your understanding of how educational
technologies can be infused into a classroom to improve learning. To
assess these two areas, you will be asked to complete some 35±
multiple choice questions to measure general knowledge, and several
short answer questions to see how well you understand how to
integrate technologies.
Classroom Participation
Many of the activities conducted in the classroom will not be
directly graded, but instead will be used to establish a classroom
participation grade. These activities include, but are not limited
to:
- General attendance and particiaption in class discussions and
activities
- Developing the Encanto Project on Week 1
- Developing a Web Home Page on Week 2
- Conducting the database and spreadsheet activities in Week
8
- Creating a small HyperStudio stack on Week 9 and 10
- Sharing your integration project on Week 15
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