EDU2022 Teaching and Learning with Technology in Classrooms

Course Calendar, summer, 2008 JUDY BARFORD, BB2205,  581-7885  jbarford@eiu.edu guidelines roster  *Student Web work will be in progress throughout the six week session.. EDU2022 project page template -- use for linking of projects, descriptions, and explanations.

 Course Calendar         Note:  This calendar may be changed by the instructor in consultation with the class.

Date by Day	Topics and Activities -- also see projects template	Resources	Due
6/10	The state of our education world: Did You Know/Education, YouTube Course overview, lab policies, tech survey, Introductions, interviews and presentations of current class computing favorites  Course syllabus and calendar  eiu logins and passwords Lucas video and notes.  Daily definitions. Your EIU pen server account.  purchase: flash drive for coursework, course packet Introduction to Netscape Composer/ review of model EDU2022 projects.  Building your index page.	Shelly Cashman Chapter 1 video -- Jim Diekman's class, Chula Vista California, from the  George Lucas Educational Foundation	working password flash drive course packet
6/12	How schools are using the Web  Links to schools   Polishing your EIU  index page,  posting to your pen account, using WinSCP.  Give credit to your graphics sources. Resources   for creating your page from Pocantico Hills School. The importance of folders and file names Work on resume .pdf format Daily definitions Introduction to del.icio.us Introduction to flickr	Shelly Cashman Chapter 2, 2.46-.48,  2.50-2.58*-2.66 resume model for educators from EIU Career Services Composer Tutorials on-line Making Changes tutorial	Write and upload your EIU index page   resume.pdf posted Quiz due on S/C chapter.  Lucas notes due.
6/17	Pervasive ethics in technology education: Intellectual property, copyright laws, the meaning of "free,"  Creative Commons. Uploading the course projects page. Customizing the projects page. Creating internal and absolute links, Making changes.  Using refresh in FTP, reload in your browser Hotlist options: PortaPortal, Filamentality, del.icio.us, just plain ol' resources page Daily definitions -- to continue throughout the term. Appropriate curriculum topics	Shelly Cashman Chapter 3 tutorials as above, plus Netscape Composer Hints&Advice	projects page posted create internal links Linklog page posted
6/19	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.   For summer 08, search and  include the following links: a classroom podcast, a classroom vodcast, a classroom blog. Look ahead to the Curriculum Theme assignment . Select a theme and begin searching.  Smart Research from NoodleTools.	Shelly Cashman Chapter 4 Illinois Computing Educators Join today! look for the state winter conference, Feb. 09 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 essential questions handout	Research, design, and post the Technology in Schools page, Individual Reading S/C selected chapter report
6/24	In addition to your professional resume online, enjoy designing an About Me page.. Include photos, and a theme sequence assembled with sound using Photostory or  Moviemaker..   Compare to Power Point  .	Shelly Cashman Chapter 5	Post About Me page Study for midterm,
6/26	Discuss and diagram technology history and scientific milestones. Lab time to update all projects up to and including Project 5. Exam Choosing the Curriculum Theme, overview of all phases of the project: essential question, rationale, site evaluation, concept map, Excel graph, podcast, Webquest link and evaluation, SmartBoard activity. Review of model curriculum theme projects	Shelly/Cashman Chapter 6 Roblyer, pp.21-24 & 33-38  in packe Technology throughout History History of technology and computing handouts    S/C Chapter 1	Midterm Exam Individual Reading S/C selected chapter  online quiz.
7/1	Why essential questions -- relevance in curriculum, critical judgement and evaluation, rubrics and checklists. Work on Curriculum Theme page and site evaluation to support your Essential Question research.  Follow  guidelines on the EDU2022  projects page.  See Project 6 models in the student pages linked below this calendar. Research and carefully build a rationale to justify the study of your theme. Select a site for review which will be strong in the five evaluation criteria for Web site evaluation.  Know  the Kathy Schrock categories and the ALA categories	S/C Chapters 6 and 7 EQ handout Web Literacy and Critical Thinking Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators Under "Teacher Helpers" click Critical Evaluation Tools.  Scroll to ABC's of Web site evaluation.   See also S/C pp. 409-414.	Post the rationale for the selected theme followed by the site eval. for Project 6
7/3	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 Wooster. 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 Introduction to podcasting.  Examples and Audacity software, Project 11	Tammy Worster's Technology Tips -- endless easy technology ideas the classroom S/C Chapters 7 Fewell/Gibbs, Ch. 3	Post the concept map Individual Reading S/C selected chapter  online quiz.
7/8	Assistive Technology, Shelly/Cashman South Carolina Developmentally appropriate curriculum and assistive technology Presenter, 9 - 11 a.m. Lou Conwell, Carl Sandburg School, third grade teacher, presents her SmartBoard activities and strategies as well as other favorite classroom technologies.  This will be an interactive presentation packed with real-time ideas from a master teacher! Welcome, Mrs. Conwell! Find and demonstrate a SmartBoard activity to complement your curriculum theme. Link the activity to Project 6 Use the Smart Notebook and Smart tools to design a SmartBoard activity of your own.	S/C Chaper 8 multimedia The impact of Smart Technologies in today's classrooms	Post the link to a relevant SmartBoard activity Demonstrate to the class your own Smart activity
7/10	Search for compelling data to illustrate your curriculum inquiry. Use Excel and the Graphing Wizard for a mathematical analysis.  Example . 2007 data from the State of the World's Children -- use most recent data from UNICEF ******** from Mrs. Renz's class http://www2.redmond.k12.or.us/mccall/renz/2007-2008/excelgraphs.htm Continue work on podcast introducing your curriculum theme. The field of computer ethics. (This project may need to be omitted due to time constraints).  Topics and issues. Project guidelines and criteria for points will be available in your course WebCT account.  For threading the discussion -- distinguish between the Compose command and the Reply command.	See Henking School Kid Pix presentation (Technology link) http://www.glenview34.org/he/ must view  in Explorer, not Netscape Fewell/Gibbs, Chapter 5 www.eiu.edu/vce S/C Ch. 8	Post  the graph Compose and  post your ethics discussion to the WebCT discussion board
7/15	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.  Complete and post the podcast, Project 11 Structured, interactive demonstrations from each class member begin. Preparation for final exam	WebQuest links and samples handout -- articleMolebash & Dodge 2003	Post podcast Submit paper WQ evaluation. Post evaluated WQ link for curriculum theme w. links Study guide, final exam
7/17	Structured, interactive demonstrations from each class member continue Final exam		Presentations, final exam

Model student EDU2022 Web pages from previous semesters:
Shannon Lochner http://www.pen.eiu.edu/~smlochner Emily A..Boyd http://www.pen.eiu.edu/~eaboyd
Meg Annerino http://www.pen.eiu.edu/~mmannerino  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/,
Kalee Reinoehl http://www.pen.eiu.edu/~kareinoehl,  Dennis Zeke Johnson http://www.pen.eiu.edu/~dzjohnsen,
Sarah Deters  http://pen.eiu.edu/~sjdeters/
This calendar may be changed during the summer term due to unforeseen needs or constraints.

Return to EDU2022 course syllabus.