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Make a free donation of food to hungry people around the world.
Send your attendance eMail (every week)
Be sure you understand next week's assignment.
Journal before you leave class tonight.
Let's try to finalize our class schedule as many field trips as is practical. Talk to George if you want to volunteer your school as host of a field trip.
Gail is inviting us to Meisler Middle School on march 7?
In Class tonight:
House Keeping
We have groups!
Every group MUST have at least 3 members.
Everyone is required to belong to at least 2 groups.
Swapping between groups is OK with George's approval
It is George's fondest hope that everyone will join at least 1 other group -- I will publish each group's major topic ASAP. Join one or more other groups that will be working on topics of interest to you.
Remember, each group's goal is to teach the rest of us -- keeping in mind the course objectives and our major topics
Did anyone browse "Links to Explore" during this last week?
EDCI 61?? is approved for this class -- and I expect that everyone will be moved from 4993 to 61??. I expect that I will be able to execute the swap myself. Let you know more next week.
What is Technology Integration, good job - THANKS
Have you cleared your book with George?
The new State of Louisiana Certification Programs in technology.
This Syllabus page will change every week. Changes will (almost always) be ready by 4:00 PM on Sunday before class.
Every class will start with Questions -- your questions. Show me that you are interested in our class by being prepared to ask questions, questions about our class, about computers, about any old thing. Don't make me feel silly at the beginning of class -- when I say "any questions?" -- and all I hear is "the sounds of silence."
You are expected to keep up with not just your weekly assignments, but that of all your classmates. All assignments will be available to everyone vie eMail or our Discussion Board.
Don't worry
You will learn
I wont leave your side
No Assignments due next week, Feb 7.
Assignment for Feb 14:
Integrating technology into classroom activities
Practice Technology Integration -- Groups 8 through 13
Based on your own research, present ideas on how to integrate technology into everyday classroom activities. Your ideas should be grounded in Louisiana's standards which are based on International Society for Technology in Education recommendations. ISTE presents 6 standards for "Technology Foundations for all Students". These lead to "Performance Indicators, Curriculum Examples, and Scenarios" for technology-literate students at key developmental points in their precollege education.
A short (10 minute) group presentation
- Each group's foreperson will post a message before 6:00 PM Friday, Feb. 9 that briefly explains what will be covered during the in class presentation.
- Before 4:00 PM Sunday, Feb. 11, every group member will add their own ideas by "replying" to their foreperson's original message.
- After 4:00 PM Sunday, Feb. 11, and after reading what the group's planed presentation will cover, everyone is required to "add their 2 cents" to at least two (2) of these messages.
- In class on Wednesday, Feb. 14, Groups 8 through 13 will each give a short (10 minute) presentation.
- Questions and comments will follow.
- Links to Explore is a good starting place to develope ideas for this assignment.
- Imagine that your group needs to provide educators with examples of how technology can be integrated into their teaching, lesson, and unit plans. How do we help students to be technology literate without focusing on the technology? How do we integrate it into everyday activities?
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
- Julie Bergeron
- Sr. Debbie Walker
- Barbara Saleem
Group 9
- David Joyner
- Gail Silverstein
- Todd McMahon
Group 10
- Mary Armit
- Rhonda McMahon
- Jennifer Sparck
- Chingchi Lee
Group 11
- Leslie Guillory
- Merri Matthews
- Pat O'Brien-Murphy
Group 12
- RaeNell Houston
- Kathy O'Steen
- Leon Glaeser
Group 13
- Deborah Darby
- Elaine Kelly
- 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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