EDU2022 Teaching and Learning with Technology in Classrooms

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 course packet
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 S/C selected chapter report
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. Re-read the project description and components. Web site evaluation MovieMaker, PhotoStory, Smartboard, etc. groups organize for creative project relevant to curriculum theme	See Henking School  vodcasts http://www.glenview34.org/he/ must view  in Explorer, not Netscape Packet: Essential ?'s & Site evaluation S/C 7	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 ******** from Mrs. Renz's class  http://www2.redmond.k12.or.us/mccall/renz/2007-2008/excelgraphs.htm	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

Model student EDU2022 Web pages
Courtney Shepard  http://pen.eiu.edu/~cnshepard,  Lindsey Dalesandro http://pen.eiu.edu/~ljdalesandro,  Meghan Parrish  http://pen.eiu.edu/~maparrish
Kristin Meyer  http://www.pen.eiu.edu/~kmmeyer2/,  Amy Gostomelsky http://pen.eiu.edu/~abgostomelsky/, Jaime Voss http://www.pen.eiu.edu/~jkvoss, Kalee Reinoehl http://www.pen.eiu.edu/~kareinoehl,  Dennis Zeke Johnson http://www.pen.eiu.edu/~dzjohnsen
 

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