... part of George North's and Teacher Explorer Center's Web site at UNO ... Updated: January 26, 2000 Design and Development of MultiMedia Curricula EDCI 4993-603, Spring 2000 4:30 to 7:15, Wednesdays Syllabus -- visits. In class activities for January 26. Why do you want to print this document? It is linked to many other important documents -- your printed copy is linked to the death of trees. Links to Explore -- Search the Web -- Live video of our classroom! Full Schedule Current Week eMail :: George | redCap | Attendance | Check Your Mail | | Top | Texts and Resources | Course Description | Objectives | | Evaluation | Grading | Who is George North | Class Web Pages | Date Description Prior Weeks All the class meetings are still ahead of us -- not counting this one! This Week Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Back to Top Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Wednesday, January 26 Back to Top Make a free donation of food to hungry people around the world. A completed calendar for this class is available. See Full Schedule link above. Be advised that this page will also be updated from time to time. I will point our important changes, but it is up to you to keep track of future class activities. Referring to a printed copy of these dates will be a mistake! Questions: if you don't ask, I can't tell? House Keeping Check assignment for next week If you didn't receive eMail for our class list, then 1) you haven't read your mail since last class, or 2) I eMail address on the list is incorrect. Please let me know. It is important to your learning in our class to be corresponding with redCap@ed.uno.edu -- and by direct connection to our whole class. Did you read my first class meeting advice. If not, see last week's Syllabus Please, remember to include your full name in the text of every message sent to me or to our list -- so that we don't have to guess who an eMail is from. This is critical to your Attendance eMail, forgetting to include your name in the text of this message could result in you be marked absent? Before leaving class tonight, make sure you understand the assingment for next class. Please note, there is a last minute change in the assignment for next week. Ask me why. See assignment below. Why can't george spell? In class this week: This week's class and the assignments for next week meet in whole or part objectives #s 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 18, and 23. I will always forget to cover something from this list -- feel free to remind me of what I missed. Ask me about how you can keep your Class Web Page current. You need to know your password, what is it? Any questions about participation, Evaluation and Self-evaluation. Don't forget (every week) to do your house keeping ... see below? What skills already exist in our class: presentations, web publishing, spreadsheets & database, teaching with curriculum-based software, teaching with tech-aids like white boards, projection or TV connected to their classroom computers, integrating computer labs in their curriculum, solving the problem of multiple students per computer? What else? We will form groups for the first Unit Plan due by mid-term. List some education technologies you know. What is the importance of documents in education? What is MultiMedia? What is an authoring environment? What is an information network? This class is part of UNO College of Education's teacher preparation program. As a teacher yourself, what are some of the factors that contributed to your teaching style? What is your theory that govern your teaching & learning? Who will ask me about my teaching <--> learning theory? Begin making your to-do-list of what you want to accomplish in this class. Please review the Objectives for this class. This list will form the foundation for constructing your the rubrics that will be used at the end of the semester to complete the self evaluation. Every week Bring a floppy disk to class ... one that you use on your own computer at home, school, work ... from the computer you plan to use to do your class assignments. Before leaving class tonight, make sure you understand the assingment for next class. Send me attendance eMail. Assignments Keep in mind that when you complete the below assignments everyone in class will benefit from your work. This is one great benefit of information networks. Think about it as textbook readings ... except that the whole class reads a little part and tells the others about it. I expect that by the end of our semester together, you will look back on these assignments as very important to your overall learning experience. Written assignment are due by 4:30 PM, on the Sunday before our next class. Everyone in class will read Chapter 4 of a book by Dr. Jason Ohler about the History of Technology. Also, I encourage you to do additional research about the History of Technology in Education. If you find multi-media resources on this topic, especially Web sites, please include their URLs in at the end of your written assignment. Confused about what to read? This is a link directly to Chapter 4. eMail redCap the following: From your readings and research, list what you consider are the important topics. In a one page document, summarize what you read. Don't repeat the author, tell me and your classmates what you think about what the author said. Important suggestion: Use your word processor to create and edit this assignment. Save it for yourself on your own computer. When it is complete, copy and paste the document into an eMail message to redCap. These assignments can become part of your portfolio if you choose to build on. Prior Dates Description Wednesday, January 19 First Day of Class Back to Top