... part of George North's
and Teacher Explorer Center's Web site at UNO
Technology Integration
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EDCI 4993-604, Spring 2001
4:30 to 7:15, Wednesdays
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Syllabus -- visits.
This week's in class activities.
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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.
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Links to Explore
-- Search the Web
-- Live Video
-- our Web Site -- TechX'ing
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Send your attendance eMail (every week)
Next week's assignment.
Journal before you leave class tonight.
In Class tonight: May 2
Assignment next week: -- continue to follow the discussions on TecX'ing. You should consider checking and contributing these discussions several times weekly.
Group 13 - Online Tutorials
Syndistar - Filed Trip to a multi-media company
Group 3 - Filed Trip to East Jefferson
Group 1 - Proposing & Building a Computer Lab in your School
To integrate technology in schools there are several key issues or concerns. The first and and most important is availability. With funding difficulties and aging machines this is a challenge. As Group 6 has stated, grant writing is one way to acquire the desired funds to purchase and implement the technology. It seems necessary to explore the actual technology being requested and then design the lab complete with software, networking, and peripherals. You have to know what you want before you can ask for it. What our group proposes is for each class member to design and price their "dream lab." We offer a model for a 30 station imaging lab a variety of peripherals and a selection of imaging software.
Group 4 - Browsing Websites Off Line
Useful web sites can often be saved to a disk, CD-ROM, or the hard drive so that they can be retrieved and used by students unable to hookup to the World Wide Web. We hope to present an informative session on the pros and cons of different software used to store websites for offline use. Please take a few minutes the next time you browse online, and think about a website that you might want to have available offline. Write down the URL and we'll show you some ways to save it for future use.
Group 5 - Filed Trip to Meisler
Browse the I CAN Learn Homepage
Browse the Computer Curriculum Corporation Homepage
Write a brief paragraph answering the following questions.
Group 6 - Technology Grant Writing
Group 6 says: "We have been learning about many different ways to incorporate technology into the curriculum. Unfortunately, most of these require sums of money that are not at our disposal. Our group has decided, therefore, to research ways that will allow us to acquire the technology that we so covet. Our topic is grant writing and we will begin by giving some basics and supplying links to get you started on your own quest for the holy technology grail.
Our vision for this project is that it be ongoing through the rest of the semester. We would like to start an online conversation with advice from those who have successfully received grants and questions from those who are interested in writing grants. Ideally, we would conclude this discussion with our final project which would be everyone coming up with their own grant plan that they could write for their classroom or school.
Group 2: Loyola's Field Trip
As a follow-up to the field trip to Loyola, please give feedback as to the benefits (or lack thereof) of the features presented. Specifically, did you acquire any new knowledge - and/or which 'tools' would you integrate with your instructional activities? Additionally, would you have liked some minimal 'hands-on' experimentation with any of the tools/features presented? And, finally, what would facilitate (for you) the integration of some of the tools presented?
Visit our Links to Explore Pages for some ideas about Strategic Planning.
House Keeping
Groups:
We have groups! Group foreperson's name appears in green. Forepersons are responsible for ensuring order, otherwise group members are equals in all respects.
Remember, you must belong to 2 groups, but I encourage you to join as many groups as possible -- based on your interest in their topics.
Ask George if you want to swap groups -- this is OK, but every group much have at least 3 members.
Group 1
- Leon Glaeser
- David Joyner
- Sr. Debbie Walker
Group 2
- Todd McMahon
- Deborah Darby
- RaeNell Houston
- Merri Matthews
Group 3
- Becky Maloney
- Leslie Guillory
- Chingchi Lee
Group 4
- Pat O'Brien-Murphy
- Kathy O'Steen
- Jennifer Sparck
Group 5
- Barbara Saleem
- Mary Armit
- Gail Silverstein
Group 6
- Rhonda McMahon
- Julie Bergeron
- Elaine Kelly
Group 7 -- disbanded
Group 8 -- disbanded
Group 9
- David Joyner
- Gail Silverstein
- Julie Bergeron
- Todd McMahon
Group 10
- Mary Armit
- Rhonda McMahon
- Jennifer Sparck
- Chingchi Lee
Group 11
- Leslie Guillory
- Merri Matthews
- Sr. Debbie Walker
- Pat O'Brien-Murphy
Group 12
- RaeNell Houston
- Kathy O'Steen
- Leon Glaeser
Group 13
- Deborah Darby
- Elaine Kelly
- Barbara Saleem
- Becky Maloney
Group 14 -- disbanded
How will we meet the objectives of this class?
One goal of this class is for you to acquire the skills needed to document, plan, design, implement and deliver "technology integration" in schools.
To accomplish this you will do all of these things yourself, working in groups, with guidance from George.
There are at least nine (9) major topics of this course. They are:
- Curriculum planning & design
- National, State, and Local standards and guidelines
- Teaching hypermedia to faculty and students
- Teaching media integration
- Teaching responsible use
- Design and planning for staff development
- Design, develop, and deliver unit plans
- Plan and implement field trips to observe and compare methods and strategies in use in schools today
- Field trip documentation and assessment of: instruction, staff development, facilities, resource management, internet connectivity.
- There could be others? George is open to ideas.
For both your midterm and final exam all of the above topics will be covered by group presentations that "teach us" about a topic.
We will form groups next week.
Each group is responsible for one topic for midterm exam.
Each group is responsible for one topic for final exam.
Everyone will belong to at least 2 groups --
Looking at Important Dates, you will see that there is a date certain for completing your midterm and final project presentations.
If we schedule 4 field trips, then 4 groups will be responsible for planning, 4 groups for documentation and assessment.
Since it is your job to "teach" us about these topics, this teaching can take the form one or more "Assignment for next week"
REMEMBER, we learn by making mistakes.
Don't worry
You will learn
I wont leave your side
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Prior Weeks
Prior Dates |
Description |
Wednesday, January 17 |
A very good start on the path to Technology Integration |
Wednesday, January 24 |
Trying to make groups work! |
Wednesday, January 31 |
Teacher Inservice |
Wednesday, February 7 |
Do we need/want computers in eduation? |
Wednesday, February 14 |
2nd 10 minute "teach us" sessions |
Wednesday, February 21 |
1st Book Reviews |
Wednesday, February 28 |
No class -- Mardi Gras |
Wednesday, March 7 |
Field Trip to Loyola |
Wednesday, March 14 |
Field Trip to Meisler Middle School -- "I Can Learn" |
Wednesday, March 21 |
Field Trip to East Jefferson H.S. |
Wednesday, March 28 |
... time to catch up! |
Wednesday, April 4 |
Intererting Chat ... in class! |
Wednesday, April 11 |
Spring Break |
Wednesday, April 18 |
Field trip to Syndistar -- thanks David |
Wednesday, April 25 |
What is Technology Integration? |
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