Week 1:

• Welcome
• Introductions and course overview
• Technology preassessment (MS Word download)
• The future of technology-assisted learning from Sharp Ch. 16
• Knowing, learning, and Habermas: 3 types of learning (PPT Download)
• Technology terms for showing and telling
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

Week 2:

Preparation: Read Sharp, Chapter 3: Getting Started/Computers as Systems

• Basic troubleshooting techniques: Checking connections, Quiting, Forcing Quit, Restarting, Using help menus, ITSS Help Desk 8847, Google your topic
• Computer Operating Systems: OS X Tiger and Windows XP
• Comparing Windows and Mac OS terms: glossary part 1, part 2
• Inspiration/Kidspiration software: concepts, skills, and application in P-12 classroom

Assigned: Project 1: OS Analysis via Inspiration Software

Week 4:

Preparation: Read Sharp, Chapters 4 and 5

Week 5:

Peripherals and digital imaging

Week 6:

Preparation: Read Sharp, Chapter 8

• Rethinking multimedia presentations
• Multimedia Fair Use Guidelines and Copyright Law
• Multimedia: digital video and sounds
• Microsoft PowerPoint; Macintosh Keynote
• Concepts, skills and application in P-12 classrooms
• Self assessment of PPT construction and use

Due: Project 2: Advanced word processing communication

Due: Project 3: Interactive multimedia presentation

Week 9:

Preparation: Read Sharp, Chapter 7 for this class

• Spreadsheets: Download Book1 (or Download Book1Copy) thanks to Mary Olson-Reed of UMD ITSS
• Concepts, skills, and application in P-12 classroom

Assigned: Project 4: Spreadsheet of education information and data

Week 10:

Preparation: Read Sharp, Chapter 6

• Databases (download FilemakerPro 5 database) and mail merging (download MS Word document)
• Concepts, skills, and application in P-12 classrooms: Education technology Issue Analysis
• Citing electronic resources in APA and MLA in your tech issue analysis letters

Week 11:

Preparation: Read Sharp, Chapter 11

• World Wide Web
• Web browsers and management
• Search engines as learning tools
• Concepts, skills, and application in P-12 classrooms
• Accessibility and resources
• Web development software introduction

Due: Project 5: Technology issue database and mail merge

Week 12:

Preparation: Read Sharp, Chapter 10

• Web development via free, open source software
• WWW as a teaching and learning tool:
• Concepts, skills, and application in P-12 classrooms

Assigned: Project 6: Professional educator's website

• Developing web pages: links, files
• Putting pages and files to the web
• Updating web files

• Web presence as a learning and assessment tool:
• Concepts, skills, and application in P-12 classrooms

Week 14:

• electronic portfolio
• PDA's & Pocket PC's
• eTIPS Introduction
• Synchronous and asynchronous discussions

Due: Project 6: Professional educator's website

Week 16: Final exam (see schedule), post assessment (MS Word download)