Topic(s):

• Discover what this course is all about: Edutopia Video (search for A Fantastic Super Use of Technology)
• Icebreaker activity -- human bingo
• Review syllabus and schedule
• Mac and Windows --a Venn Diagram
• National and State standards
• Levels of Technology Implementation

Trial software resources:

Inspiration 30-day trial

Dreamweaver 30-day trial

WS_FTP freeware

Mac and Windows:

A Windows User's Guide to Macs

Assignments:

• Buy a PC-formatted Zip disk or a 64mg USB storage device before tomorrow's class
• Download a trial copy of Inspiration, Dreamweaver, and WS_FTP
• Email (10 pts) Send an email to gthomas@coe.uga.edu from your primary email account telling us about your K-12 experiences with technology. Due by 8:00 am Thursday, May 15.
• Standards ( 30 pts) Select 2 technology-connected lesson plans from the GLC website and complete the following for each (in a Word document):
  • Summarize the lesson in 25 words or less
  • List the technology skills addressed in the lesson
  • Identify the Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi) and explain why you chose this level
  Due (in hard copy) at the beginning of class on Thursday, May 15.

Topic(s):

• What lessons did you find yesterday?

• Putting our thoughts in order by creating graphic organizers and concept maps using Inspiration

• Web-based Learning Objects -- there's more to the web than just lesson plans and research.

Resources:

Inspiration website

WWILD team database

Assignments:

• Inspiration Web (30 points)
  • Complete an Inspiration diagram for The Integration of Instructional Technology into Public Education: Promises and Challenges article
  • Include a main idea, all of the major subtopics, details for each subtopic, and linking words between the main idea and subtopics. It should be detailed enough so that a reader could use your concept map instead of the article.
  • Turn in a printed copy of your concept map at the beginning of class on Friday, May 16.
• Web-based Learning Objects (45 points)
  • Read: What is an Interactive Module? and the WWILD Team Concept Paper from the WWILD Team website
  • Write and submit an extensive review for 3 learning objects in the WWILD team database.
  • Select and submit a learning object to the WWILD team database -- making sure that it is not already included
  • Turn in a printed copy of your reviews and your submission at the beginning of class on Monday, May 19.

Topic(s):

• Inspiration -- where does it fit?
• Spotlight websites: MarcoPolo
• Setting up your zip disk
• File naming conventions
• Getting started with Dreamweaver

Resources:

• MarcoPolo -- a gateway site to lessons, web resources, and standards

Assignment:

• WWILD team database submission and reviews are due Monday, May 19 at the beginning of class.
• Set up an assignment folder and a portfolio folder on your zip disk
• Find a partner with which to locate subject-specific spotlight websites (not due on Monday!)

Topic(s):

• WWILD Team submissions
• Dreamweaver review: tables, formatting text, linking webpages
• Collecting images for your portfolio
• Inserting images, uploading your portfolio

Resources:

• Pics4Learning -- site for lesson plans and images
• Microsoft Office Online Clip Art Gallery

Assignments:

Complete all items on checklist for your portfolio. Upload your portfolio and make sure all links and images work. Make appointment to fix problems before Friday, May 23.

Topic(s):

• Spotlight websites: Kathy Schrock's School Discovery
• Spotlight website assignment
• Trip to the Curriculum Materials Center
• Software evaluation assignment

Resources:

• Kathy Schrock's School Discovery -- a gateway site to lessons and web resources
• Curriculum Materials Center
• Rubric for software evaluation (PDF)

Assignment:

• Spotlight websites -- Choose your group and subject area by Thursday.
• Software evaluation- Visit the Curriculum Materials Center, check out software and be prepared for Wednesday's work session.

Topic(s):

• Work with group members on the software evaluation assignment (Drew and Gretchen will be available from 8:00-11:00 a.m.)

Resources:

• Sample rubric created by a former student
• Sample PowerPoint from a former student
• How to make a PowerPoint (PPT)

Assignment:

• Complete software evaluation project- Group PowerPoint Presentation due on Thursday.
• Software evaluation reflection due at the beginning of class on Friday.

Topic(s):

• Prepare for software evaluation presentations
• Group presentations (8-10 minutes each)
• Interactive PowerPoint

Assignments:

• Individual reflections on the software evaluation are due at the beginning of class on Friday.
• Come to class on Friday with an idea for a PowerPoint game

Topic(s):

• Class begins at 8:30 a.m.
• Reflections on the software evaluation
• Interactive PowerPoint games
• Game must include all components of master slide

Resources:

• Rubric for PowerPoint games (PDF)

Assignments:

• PowerPoint game is due on Thursday May 29.
• Become familiar with your spotlight website for your presentation.

Topic(s):

• Class begins at 8:30 a.m. in OIT, Aderhold Room 232
• Tour of OIT
• Spotlight Website #3

Assignments:

• PowerPoint game is due on Friday, May 30 at the beginning of class.
• Wednesday is a work session on PowerPoint game and/or the Webquest.

Topic(s):

• Work session in the lab
• Drew and Gretchen are available via e-mail

Assignments:

• PowerPoint game is due on Friday, May 30 at the beginning of class.

Topic(s):

• Work session in lab

Assignments:

• PowerPoint game is due on Friday, May 30 at the beginning of class.

Topic(s):

• PowerPoint games -- final thoughts
• WebQuests
• What are they?
• Where can you find them?
• How do you create one?

Resources:

• WebQuest Rubric (from the WebQuest page)--how you will be evaluated
• Example of a webquest
• Bloom's Taxonomy

Assignments:

• PowerPoint game is due today at the beginning of class.
• WebQuests are due Thursday, June 5 at the beginning of class.
  • Select a Topic
  • Select a Design
  • Write up the Task in the student template and the Standards and Learners in the teacher template
  • Describe how learners will be evaluated

Topic(s):

• Continue work on WebQuests

Assignments:

• WebQuests are due Thursday, June 5 at the beginning of class.
  • Design the Process
  • Polish and Prettify

Topic(s):

• Digital camera activity
• Manipulating digital images
• iMovie

Resources:

• Kodak playground
• Image Blender
• The Digital Camera in Education
• Apple's iMovie Gallery

Assignments:

• WebQuests are due Thursday, June 5 at the beginning of class.
• Technology reflection (worth 25 points)-- due Wednesday, June 4 at the beginning of class
  • min. 2 typed double-spaced pages
  • discuss how you can use digital images in your teaching
  • discuss how you can use what you've learned in EDIT 2000 in your teaching
  • describe software, teaching strategies, etc. that you would have liked to have learned about in EDIT 2000

Topic(s):

• Discuss technology reflections, I-Movie activity
• Looking at a sample portfolio
• Review criteria for portfolios
• Uploading files to your webspace
• Work on web-based portfolios

Resources:

• Student example

Assignments:

• Print a copy of your game board and game pieces for tomorrow's class
• Technology reflections are due at the beginning of class today.
• WebQuests are due Thursday, June 5 at the beginning of class.
• Portfolios must be finished and on-line by Thursday at the beginning of class. Materials should stay on-line until at least Monday June 9!!
  • Write a short introduction for your index page -- who you are -- where you see yourself in 5 years
  • Choose the appropriate page to link each of your artifacts (see example)
  • Write a short reflection (2-3 sentences) about each artifact.
  • Artifacts to include:
    • LoTi standards
    • Inspiration diagram
    • Software Evaluation reflection
    • Software Evaluation PowerPoint
    • PowerPoint game
    • WebQuest
    • Technology Reflection

Topics:

• Final questions about assignments
• Course evaluation
• Project showcase
• The web address for this course will change to: www.coe.uga.edu/~gthomas/summer after Monday, June 9.
• All files in the "gthomas" folder on the network drive will be deleted after Monday, June 9.

Resources:

• The ABC's to Excel
• Interactive Excel
• Course Evaluation

Assignments:

• Web-based portfolios and WebQuests are due at the beginning of class today!
• Make sure to write the address for your web-based portfolio on the class sheet before you leave today.
• Final rubrics for the game, webquest, and portfolio will be available in 607A after Monday, June 9. I will hold them until the first day of Fall Semester.