Educ 5413 - Teaching with Technology Summer 2005: Dr. Helen Mongan-Rallis

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Course Schedule

*Note: this schedule will be revised as needed during the course so it is important that you check the schedule each day for any changes. Schedule last updated: June 30, 2005

Link to days: 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9

Day & Date
 Topics Read/prepare for class Resources Assignments due
1: 6/20
  1. Complete course survey & pre-assessment.
  2. Introductions
  3. Course overview
  4. Issues & challenges in integrating technology into teaching (download ppt.slides shown in class)
  5. Framing the challenge: identify types of educational technology, their purposes for teaching & learning, & ways in which they can be used (download inspiration "teach tech ideas" to use for task)
  6. A picture speaks a thousand words: Using digital cameras to enhance teaching and learning (download PowerPoint slides) & Ideas for using digital cameras
  7. Creating digital field trips & how-to guides
Stuffing Technology into The Curriculum (read this as soon as you have completed the course pre-assessment. Course Survey & Self pre-assessment (completed in class at the start of class)

2: 6/21
  1. Work time on your field trips (8 - 8:30)
  2. Technology "Show and tell."
  3. Viewing what you have done so far with your digital field trips/how-to guides & discussion of applications of this to your teaching.
  4. Teaching tips for using digital cameras: trying some examples (see also: Ideas for using digital cameras)
  5. Review of photo editing and manipulation for use in multimedia applications (see Photoshop guides)
  6. Virtual field trips
  7. Using blogs as a teaching and learning tool
  8. Introduction to WebCrossing
  • Begin creating your matrix of ways technology tools (from ideas developed as a class on Day 1).
  • Read and go over Photoshop Guidelines (good idea to print these so you can use them as you work at the computer)
  • Go to Blogger.com and initiate a blog account for yourself. Begin experimenting with how to use your blog.
  • Explore some examples of virtual field trips (see links under resources and "google" to find your own)

 Create a blog for yourself& e-mail Helen (hrallis@d.umn.edu) the URL of your blog (this is the first step of the assignment -- it will be ongoing from here). In your blog reflect on what you have learned and thought about so far as a result of this course.

 
3: 6/22

Teaching with PowerPoint and Inspiration

  1. Linear vs. non-linear multi-media approaches
  2. Different uses of PowerPoint & Inspiration (why use? when? how? who?)
  3. Teaching students how to use PowerPoint & Inspiration
  4. How to teach effectively using PowerPoint
  • Read: Scoring Power Points - Highlight and make notes on key points to remember when you teach using PowerPoint; add in your own ideas from your experiences.
  • Review some of the links in the adjacent resources on uses of PowerPoint, Concept Maps as well as do a search for other uses of PowerPoint, Inspiration and educational games. Come to class prepared to share ideas you have found that you consider interesting and useful in your particular discipline.
 Develop a digital field trip or how-to-guide
4: 6/23
  1.  Peer teaching using Power Point or Inspiration as a tool to enhance student learning
  2. Intro Teacher created web sites:
    • setting up Teacherweb.com website
  • Prepare to teach lesson using PowerPoint. Keep in mind the reading Scoring Power Points from yesterday and using the rubric that we discussed and refined in class to guide you in your preparation.
  • Review what you learned about web pages in Educ 3412/5412 (for help, see Mozilla Composer Guidelines)

Prepare to teach a lesson using PowerPoint as a tool (do not "give" a PowerPoint presentation!).|

Midpoint feedback for Helen

5: 6/24
  1. Teacher created web pages (continued):
    • Overview of options
    • Review of how to create web pages in Composer
    • Creating your own teacher web site using Teacherweb.com
  2. Teaching students to use the Internet
  3. Copyright & fair use issues
  4. Introduction to web site development

Submit a written analysis of your teaching from yesterday (analyze your effectiveness in each area of the rubric).

6: 6/27
  1. Creating web pages using using Macromedia Dreamweaver
  2. Creating web sites: understanding the structure and functioning of a web site.
  3. Educ5413 portfolio guidelines (see also 5413 portfolio assignment)
  

Personal blog

7: 6/28
  1. Issue: Supreme Court ruling on Copyright
  2. Web site creation continued
  3. Examining other types of electronic portfolios : e-Folio, UMD ePortfolio
  4. WebQuests:
    • Using existing online examples
    • Introduction to WebQuests
    • Creating your own WebQuests: WebQuest Creation
  • Develop and upload basic components of your website to your UMD page
 Teacherweb.com site (send URL to Helen & Kyle)
8:
6/29
  1. WebQuests continued (completing and sharing)
  2. Teaching students to use the Web:
  3. Laptops in the classroom: as teaching and learning tools
  4. Using CPS "clickers" as teaching and assessment tool. See eInstruction.com
 Educ 5413 portfolio website
9: 6/30
  1. Distance education: examining different models; when, where, why, how.
  2. Teaching over ITV (KP173 Library 410 - 8:30 a.m.)
  3. Using synchronous & asynchronous online discussions
  4. Teaching over ITV & Breeze

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