Technology Across the Curriculum Dr. Mike Charles (charlesm at pacificu dot edu)
Welcome to the homepage for
our course. Below are some web-based resources and assignments.
A copy of the syllabus is available in PDF format on the "course files" page
EDUC 436/537 student survey
Click
here to complete a quick survey that will help me better understand
what you already know about technology and what you would like to learn
further through this course. Due after our first class session.
Examples of web-based
final projects developed by Pacific students.
Digital video gives
students and teachers the chance to be multimedia authors. Link here
to resources
and the assignment.
Link here to checkout
equipment as a Pacific University student. Laptops, digital camcorders
and cameras, a data projector--these materials are available through
support provided by the Oregon Technology in Education Network's (OTEN)
Preparing Tomorrows
Teachers to use Technology (PT3) grant and the Teacher Quality
Enhancement Partnership (TQEP) grant. Both of these grants are funded
by the United States Department of Education.
Further
resources for thinking more critically about using technology in your
future classroom.
Why should we use
technology in K-12 classrooms? Improving student achievement might be
one reason, but there are at least two other reasons often given for
using technology. Read more about this topic, and think further about
this issue.
Link to the homepage
of a Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers with Technology (PT3) grant in which
Pacific is actively participating. The alternative assignment for the conference is also listed there.
The
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has set the
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS). These serve as a
roadmap for improved teaching and learning by educators. ISTE standards
for students, teachers, and administrators help to measure proficiency
and set goals for the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to
succeed in today’s Digital Age. For our class we will look at the
student standards and the teacher standards, both of which were
recently revised after ten years of use in classrooms around the world.
Learn about electronic
concept mapping tools which can stimulate higher level and visual
thinking skills. Read about how teachers use these tools in their
classroom.
Get acquainted with some
valuable websites for educators as you answer these questions in a
cyberhunt or
"Internet Scavenger Hunt" format.
Learn about web search
strategies to use in your classroom. Educator specific resources,
subject directories versus search engines, and kid-friendly search
engines are some of the
topics addressed here.
WebQuests are teacher
directed student inquiry projects that combine rich learning tasks with
web-based resources, cooperative learning, and exemplary assessment
rubrics.
A guide to the emerging "Web 2.0."--still under construction.
Many teachers create
websites for their students. Typically their goals are to enhance their
learning and to improve communication with students and parents. Link
here to a page that has examples of these kinds of sites,
including a couple of websites that recent Pacific students have
created as part of their preservice teacher preparation.
Link here to a separate site where students in the course are sharing their technical expertise with the class.
A task sheet for creating digital images using several different peripherals.
Copyright friendly graphics
Resources
for copyright friendly graphics from Bernie Dodge and the folks at San
Diego State University. Note that wikimedia commons in wikipedia is a
great place to start to look, and I have had good success with the Pics
4 Learning site.
Stock photography exchange (suggested by Ben Fong) that he reports "has free and pay for photos that are in high quality. You
can search by images and it usually has pretty good photos." Interesting fact; this site has a Hungarian domain (.hu).
Paint programs are
readily available on many school computers, and a surprisingly
versatile
tool that can be adapted to many worthwhile learning tasks.
Resources for just the
right online project for your classroom, one that emphasizes
collaborative learning over a distance.
Info page...
More details about our
work using presentation software.
More details about our
assignment integrating text and graphics in a word processing document.
Tech Inventory
What kind of technology is accessible for you and your students at your placement(s)? Click here to download a copy of the guidelines for the school technology inventory assignment.
A discussion of the lesson plan assignment and some helpful resources.
Here you will find a
link to
the sample digital portfolio that explains this assignment. Remember
that
this template is available in the student folder of the soe server. You
can download this file in the lab to your own disk or filespace and
then
edit your work in Netscape Composer or any other .html editor.
Google Earth and other tools that link space and place.
Resources for completing the final project.
Image
processing is a powerful tool for teaching and learning science and
math. It provides a great way to get visual learners engaged in science
and math inquiry. On this page are resources for doing this in your
classroom.
One laptop per child
What if there was a laptop for every child in the world? A link to the one laptop per child (OLPC) site:
A link to an article that I wrote about the educational ideas underlying OLPC. |
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