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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.
In Class tonight:
Assignment for March 14s: Feedback on Loyola field trip
Deborah Darby - 06:45pm Mar 8, 2001 CST
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?
Post your assignment to our discussion board ... Group Projects / Group 2.
- Before 4:00 PM, Sunday, March 11, post your comments (feedback) to the Discussion "Feedback on Loyola field trip".
- Before 8:00 PM, Tuesday March 13, read the messages posted by our classmates and reply to these messages with comments, additional ideas and suggestions.
Visit our Links to Explore Pages for some ideas about Strategic Planning.
House Keeping
What is your group planning?
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.
Uncommon Knowledge -- Computers in the Classroom
SEE JOHNNY CLICK: Computers in Education. Will computers revolutionize education or not? President Clinton called for connecting every classroom in America to the Internet. School districts across the country are spending billions of dollars on computers for the classroom. Will all of this effort pay off or is it misguided? Just how should computers be used in the classroom? Is it possible that computers can actually harm the educational process?
We made some adjustments to our Groups
With 19 instead of 21 students, I decided that we will work with 12 groups, not 14.
Group 7 and group 14 are disbanded.
From group 7, Elaine Kelly will join group 6, and Merri Matthews will join group 2.
From group 14, Chingchi Lee will join group 10, and Pat O'Brien-Murphy will join group 11.
These changes will not affect tonight's presentations.
Groups 9 thrugh 13 will have 10 minute presentations next week.
Each Group needs to maintain a TecX'ing folder. Here each group should, over the couse of our semester together, accumulate as much information as is practical about their work together, their accomplishments.
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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