Designed for students in the freshman or sophomore year of the Elementary Teacher Education program, this course develops competencies in the use of technology in the teaching profession to prepare lessons and track student progress. Topics include electronic gradebooks, statistics, presentation technology, educational resources and communication on the Internet, authoring for the World Wide Web, integrated learning systems (ILS), and assessment tools.
The following text was required for Educational Technology I. Students do not need to purchase a new copy if they still have access to the version used in that course.
Additional readings have been placed on reserve in the Education Resource Center and on electronic reserve, accessible on the University of Delaware campus via the World Wide Web.
Students are expected to have completed Educational Technology I. They should be familiar with basic concepts in hardware and software and be proficient with tools such as word processors, spreadsheets, and e-mail.
In addition to attending class, students are expected to complete weekly reading assignments in preparation for each class meeting, and, for most weeks, a computer-based laboratory activity building on the lecture. Students may complete their lab assignment in the WHL 203-I PowerMac lab or in WHL 309 Multimedia Lab using Windows 95. Students in Ed Tech II are encourage to use Windows 95 for their assignments. Students with access to computer in their dorm rooms, homes, or other computing sites may complete the assignments in those locations provided they have access to the required software - ClarisWorks 4.0 and Netscape Navigator Gold Version 3.0.
The course grade will be based on the following:
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Using Netscape navigator, copy an interesting image from the World Wide Web. Save it temporarily on a floppy diskette or the hard drive of your computer. Using an FTP tool like WS_FTP or Fetch, transfer the image file to your Copland account. Then, send the image to your instructor as an attachment to an e-mail message. In the e-mail message, be sure to specify the URL of the image on the WWW. Your image should be small and in the JPG or GIF format. Almost all images on the WWW are of one of these two formats.
CW Review the chapter on databases that was covered in Ed Tech I and read Chapter 11, Sections 11.1 through 11.13.
Copy the class list file clist.txt from the Ed Tech II: Data folder. Following the instructions given in class, import it into a ClarisWorks database. Delete 5 students from the list and add 3 new ones. Then, create a set of labels for student folders. Each label should show the student's name with the first name first and should contain a small graphic chosen from the ClarisWorks clip art library appropriate to the elementary school classroom. Print your labels on a standard sheet of paper. Do NOT use real Avery labels.
CW, Chapters 8 and 9. Review the chapter on spreadsheets that was covered in Ed Tech I and Chapter 9, Sections 9.1 through 9.15
Use ClarisWorks to create a gradebook based on a spreadsheet. Copy the students' names from your student database into a spreadsheet. Use one column for the first name and another for the last name, two columns for two hour exam scores, and one column for a final exam score . Add another column for a weighted course average based on the hour exam scores and the final exam score. Each column should have a label at the top. Include another row beneath the column labels that contains the weights to be used for calculating the course average. Your formula for the course average should use absolute references to the weights. Changing the value of one of the weights should automatically change the computations of the course averages for each student.
Print your completed spreadsheet. Also, choose Options|Display to display formulas and print the spreadsheet with the formulas displayed. Hand in both on paper to your instructor. Save your work on a floppy for use in later assignments.
CW, Chapter 10, Section 10.5.
Working with the gradebook spreadsheet you created last week, add cells that display the average (mean) and the standard deviation for each of the hour exams, the final exam, and the course average. Print your completed spreadsheet. Also, choose Options|Display to display formulas and print the spreadsheet with the formulas displayed. Hand in both on paper to your instructor. Save your work on a floppy.
Teaching Mathematics with Technology: Statistics and Graphing. Parker, Janet. (1992) Arithmetic Teacher, 39(8), (on reserve).
Use the built-in function VLOOKUP to assign letter grades, A,B,C,D, and F, based on the course average. You may use any criteria you like for setting the breakpoints between letter grades.The using the built-in function COUNT2, add to your gradebook spreadsheet a tally of the number of A’s, B’s, C’s, D’s and F’s. Finally,create a pie chart to display the distribution of letter grades and a line chart to display the change of the class average for the two hours exams and the final. Print your completed spreadsheet. Also, choose Options|Display to display formulas and print the spreadsheet with the formulas displayed. Hand in both on paper to your instructor. Save your work on a floppy.
CW, Chapter 12.
Lab Activity - Slide Show
Using the slide show feature of ClarisWorks, create a presentation for
Parents’ Night at your school. Your pages should be colorful, attractive,
and contain lots of graphics. There should be at least four pages in your
presentation. One page should show the pie chart of the letter grade distribution
that you completed earlier.
To hand in your work, change the name of the file on your floppy diskette
to "YOUR NAME - Presentation." Then copy it to the folder Ed
Tech II: Homework: Your Section: Your Name.
Newsgroups at UD
udel.general
udel.bull
Choose a topic to search for on the Web and the Newsgroups. Use one subject index and at least two search engines to conduct your search. Report on your search, describing what you were searching for, comparing the approaches used with each of the tools, and the results with each tool. NOTE: Try this for an assignment you really have for a class. The results will be more meaningful if you have a real task at hand. Use ClarisWorks to write your report and submit it in printed form.
Using the standard UD policies for creating and publishing student Web pages, create a Web page and send the URL to your instructor. The page must contain the following elements: title, heading 1, text, an image, a list (ordered or unordered), links to useful materials, and a link to enable other users to send e-mail to you.
Your Web page should contain a series of links that will be useful to your study of education. The links should be based on the resources you located while exploring the World Wide Web and the newsgroups. There should be between 10 and 15 links together with a brief description of each resource. At least one of the links must be to a newsgroup.
Either using a MAC in the WHL 203-I classroom or a Windows 95 PC in the WHL 309 classroom, capture a short audio narration. If necessary, use an audio editing tool appropriate to your chosen platform and convert your audio file to a format suitable for use in a Web page. Copy your audio file to your Web page directory on Copland and add a link to it in your homepage. Your Web page, with all the required features, should be completed by the class meeting of the week of May 19.
Integrated Learning Systems: What Does the Research Say. (1995) Warburg, Karin. The Computing Teacher, 22(5), (on reserve)
Can Integrated Instructional Technology Transform the Classroom?(1995) VanDusen, Lani. M. & Worthed, Blaine R. Educational Leadership, 53(2), (on reserve)
Sometime before the next class meeting, visit the exhibition of ILSs that is available in the Willard Hall Building. Complete the checklist of features of ILSs for each system being shown.
Touching the Mind: Technology and Assessment. (1994) Jenkins,Yolanda L. The Computing Teacher, 21(6), (on reserve)
Technology-Supported Assessment Portfolios. (1994) Barrett, Helen C. The Computing Teacher, 21(6) (on reserve)
Portfolio Assessment in Mathematics: Lessons from the Field. (1994) Johnson, Judi M. The Computing Teacher, 21(6) (on reserve)