EDUC275: Integrating Technology for Teaching and Learning
Fall  2008
T/TH 11:00-12:15

Dr. Lisa Harris, Director
Instructional Technology Center
 307D Withers
phone: 323-2583
email: harrisl@winthrop.edu
Office Hours by appointment.   

NOTE: This should be seen as a projection and not a promise. When the schedule changes, I will mark the changes in red and change the last updated date.

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Last Updated: 10/8/08

Assignments and Due Dates:

Midterm Exam 100 points October 2
Activity Write-Up One

(any software we have used so far)

100 points October 16 21
Activity Write-Up Two

(any software we have used so far, including digital video, but something different than your first write-up)

100 points November 20 25
Mini-Teach 50 points See Schedule for your Mini-teach #
Integration Table 50 points December 4
Exam 150 points December 16th

 

Date

Topics and Activities

Readings  and Assignments Due

(Due on date listed!)

Additional Resources

Tuesday
Aug. 26

Course Intro

(Introduce yourself on a PowerPoint slide)

  PowerPoint Tutorial

Thursday
Aug. 28

Planning Technology Activities: Environments/ Management/ Teaching Tech. Skills

(report out using slates)

Discuss the Mini-Teach and Complete Survey

Readings for Class Two / Guiding Questions

*Fullshot (shareware - demo version):

*How to write a tutorial:

*Window's print screen key:

*SMART Notebook record feature

 

Tuesday
Sept. 2

Planning Technology Activities: Cooperative Learning

(plan in groups for mini-teach)

Mini-Teach Example:  Wikis by Dr. Harris

Readings for Class Three/Guiding Questions

 

Mini-Teach Directions

*Project-based Learning Checklists

*Graphic Organizers to Facilitate PBL:

Makes Sense Project-based Learning Strategies by Ed Ellis
 "This guidebook of materials features three learning strategies students can use collaboratively when engaged in project-based learning activities: a project planning strategy, a research strategy, and a communicating-results strategy. "

Dr. Harris has a copy of this book you can borrow.

 

 

Thursday
Sept. 4

Planning Technology Activities: Rationale - Removing Barriers

(publication software)
Readings for Class Four/ Guiding Questions  

Tuesday
Sept. 9

Planning Technology Activities: Rationale - Removing Barriers/ Learning Theory

(publication software)

Reflection through Integration Table Example

Readings for Class Five/ Guiding Questions

Bring LiveText Keycode to class.

 

Thursday
Sept. 11

Planning Technology Activities: Rationale - Learning Theory

(graphic organizers)

Readings for Class Six/ Guiding Questions

Reflect through Integration Table

Inspiration

Kidspiration

Samples of Graphic Organizers

Graphic Organizers and UDL

Tuesday
Sept. 16
 Planning Technology Activities: Standards

Mini-Teach 1: Tag clouds

Readings for Class Seven/ Guiding Questions

 

 

Thursday
Sept. 18

Planning Technology Activities: Assessment

(Creating Rubrics Assignment in LiveText)

Mini-Teach 2: Online Photosharing

Readings for Class Eight/ Guiding Questions  
Tuesday
Sept. 23
Planning Technology Activities: TIP Model
Practice Activity Write-Up

Rubrics in Livetext continued

Share Activities and provide feedback

Readings for Class Nine/ Guiding Questions

 

 

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Thursday
Sept. 25
Smartboard and Smart Notebook Software Overview

Planning Technology Activities: TIP Model Continued

Practice Activity Write-Up

Readings for Class 10/ Guiding Questions

Reflection Using Integration Table (SmartBoards)

Final Practice Activity Write-Up due in LiveText by end of class

Online games that work with smartboard:
*http://www.quia.com/mc/382369.htm
Tuesday
Sept. 30
Share Activities

Test Review in Stations

Mini-Teach 2 continued: Online Photo Editing

Practice Activity Write-Up due in LiveText by end of class

Readings for Class 11/ Guiding Questions

 

Thursday
Oct. 2

Midterm

Tuesday
Oct. 7

Implementing Technology Activities: Creativity
(digital camera scavenger hunt)

Mini-Teach 3: PhotoStory

Readings for Class Twelve/ Guiding Questions  

Thursday
Oct. 9

Implementing Technology Activities: Creativity

(digital storytelling)

(photo posting and editing in flickr)

Mini-Teach 4: Jumpcut

Activate Webspace (www.birdnest.org)  
Tuesday
Oct. 14
Implementing Technology Activities: Creativity

(digital storytelling)

   

Thursday
Oct. 16

Implementing Technology Activities: Creativity continued

(digital storytelling continued)

 

Activity Write-up One Due

Reflection Using Integration Table

 
Oct. 17-20

Fall      Break

Tuesday
Oct. 21

Implementing Technology Activities: Communication

(website development)

Mini-Teach 5: Blogs

Activity Write-up One Due

Readings for Class Fifteen/ Guiding Questions

 

Thursday
Oct. 23

 

(Oct. 24 last day to drop)

Implementing Technology Activities: Communication continued

(website development)

Mini-Teach 6: Social Bookmarking

   

Tuesday
Oct. 28

 

Implementing Technology Activities: Communication continued

(website development)

   

Thursday
Oct. 30

Implementing Technology Activities: Research

 (website evaluation)

 

Reflection Using Integration Table

Readings for Class Seventeen/ Guiding Questions

Primary source materials

Tuesday
Nov. 4

Election    Day

Thursday
Nov. 6

Implementing Technology Activities: Critical Thinking

(WebQuests - Digital Audio

research for Radio America WebQuest)

 

Readings for Class Nineteen/ Guiding Questions  

Tuesday
Nov. 11

Implementing Technology Activities: Critical Thinking

(WebQuest - Digital Audio)

How to Use WavePad

Mini-Teach 7: Digital Piano Keyboard

   

Thursday
Nov. 13

Implementing Technology Activities: Critical Thinking

(WebQuest - Digital Audio)

 

Mini-Teach 8: Handhelds

Reflection Using Integration Table

podcast Web 2.0 tool: http://www.podomatic.com/home 

 

Best webquests: http://bestwebquests.com/ by subject area

 

Podcast examples:

K-12:

http://www.dreamextreme.us/podcast/  

higher ed: http://camplesegroup.com/blog/?p=840

http://aidenyeh.podomatic.com/

 

Tuesday
Nov. 18

Implementing Technology Activities: Digital Citizenship

(digital video)

Readings for Class Twenty-Two/ Guiding Questions  

Thursday
Nov. 20

Implementing Technology Activities: Digital Citizenship

(digital video)

Activity Write-up Two Due  

Tuesday
Nov. 25

Implementing Technology Activities: Digital Citizenship

(digital video)

Activity Write-up Two Due  

 Nov. 26 - 30

 Thanksgiving    Break

Tuesday
Dec. 2

Implementing Technology Activities: Digital Citizenship

(digital video)

Reflection Through Integration Table  

Thursday
Dec. 4

Rationale for Technology Integration

Mini-teach Debrief

 

Readings for Class Twenty-Seven/ Guiding Questions

Technology Integration Table Due

 

Dec. 16th

 

Final Exam