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CI 3750: Integrating Media and Technology into Teaching
Block I; Duncan Hall Computer Lab 218
Spring Semester 2009
Class Web Page: http://www.taskstream.com/ts/ferrell1/3750.html
Instructor: Mrs. Mary Ferrell
Office: 213-D Duncan Hall
Phone: 828-262-2960 (office); 963-8286 (home)
Email:
Office Hours: Tuesdays/Thursdays 12:15 – 2:45
Thursdays 4:00-5:00
(Or by appointment)
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will cover many different aspects of media and technology integration into the elementary classroom. Activities and projects are designed to develop you to be more proficient with technology and will be activities that you can incorporate into your classroom. Even if you don’t feel very comfortable with technology, you will quickly become more comfortable if you open your mind to learning.
COURSE GOALS
You will learn to use technology to:
1. Make your teaching day to day duties more productive
2. Promote critical thinking skills among your students by creating a community of learning where inquisition, reasoning, and collaboration replace rote memorization and repetition of facts.
3. Keep parents up to date about your classroom events, rules, etc.
4. Start your Professional Portfolio. This is the SAME portfolio as:
- Presentation Portfolio
- Student Teaching Portfolio
-Block Portfolio
They are all the same portfolio; just sometimes called different names. This class is where you will learn to create your Professional portfolio. Other block classes will require you to upload 1 project to this portfolio; we will upload all but 1 of your projects.
MATERIALS
Though you won’t have to buy or rent a text, projects will require that you purchase certain media materials.
Note: Bring this syllabus to class each day to reference the class calendar.
1) Jump Drive (flash drive, USB key); varies from $15 to $65 depending on the storage capacity
2) One method for making backup copies. Your choices are:
· Another USB Memory key
· You can save each day on a home computer by backing up your USB key (I will show you how to do this in class)
3. 1 tape for a mini digital video camera (wait to buy this until we discuss it in class). The cheapest place to buy this is at media services in Belk library.
4. Each person is required to purchase an account with TaskStream to house your electronic portfolio. This portfolio will be used for artifacts from all your block I and II courses and will show your competence in the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). A 2-year subscription is $69.
5. App Account Card if you want to be able to print on campus (not required).
METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
Very little lecture is used; instead, learning will be facilitated by demonstration and guided practice. I encourage you to help each other as you do activities. If you have a question or something is unclear, don’t hesitate to ask for clarification. Please do not work on other assignments, read email, etc., while we are working on projects in this class. Forget about other block classes during the time you are in this class. Just because I give you free time in class to work on a project, this does not mean it is free time to work on assignments for other classes. It does not mean you may leave class early. Budget and use your time wisely!
COURSE EXPECTATIONS
1. Class Attendance and Participation: The discussions and interactions that take place in the classroom are an important part of this course. Since there are a number of activities that we will do together as a class that will be difficult to make up if you are absent, it is important that you make every effort to come to every class. Please let me know if you know in advance that you are going to miss a class, so that we can make accommodations for makeup work. Missing class without contacting me, or missing class frequently (even if you let me know) will affect your grade. Class attendance and participation are critical in this class and habitually coming to class late will negatively impact your grade.
Participation in class means that you are paying attention during class demonstrations and presentations, both by me and your classmates. I don’t mind clarifying or explaining topics, but am not willing to teach a lesson again because a student was emailing, etc. during an explanation.
Attendance/Participation/Preparedness for Class counts 20% of your grade!
2. Professional Ethos:
· Some projects will be group projects and others will be individual. YOUR INDIVIDUAL WORK MUST BE YOUR ORIGINAL WORK AND NOT COPIED FROM SOMEONE ELSE. ALTHOUGH I ENCOURAGE YOU TO TALK ABOUT RATIONALES AND GET IDEAS FROM EACH OTHER, RATIONALES MUST BE WRITTEN BY EACH PERSON AND MUST BE YOUR ORIGINAL WORK.
· Email: Please include your name and block number.
· Cell Phones may be left on vibrate for emergency purposes only during class. Before and after classes are fine to use your phone, but please step in the hall.
3. Assignments: Assignments are expected on the dates they are due (see calendar below). In block you will be given a lot of assignments, so make a master calendar for yourself of when everything is due, internship dates, etc. SUBMITTING WORK AFTER THE DUE DATE IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE PRACTICE. Note: Graded projects turned in late will count off 3 points per calendar day they are late. For example, if you have a project due Monday at 9:00 AM and you turn it in on Wednesday at 9:00 AM, it will have 6 points taken off.
There is no excuse for not knowing when an assignment is due.
4. Group Work: Some projects we do in class will be done as a group. You are expected to participate equally and do your share of the work. If you are in a group where a group member is not doing his/her part, let me know as soon as possible and the issue will be addressed. I am treating you how you will be treated when you are a teacher, where nonparticipation will not be tolerated.
5. Inclement Weather: Please adhere to the weather policy as outlined in the university catalog. In the event of serious weather problems that could affect your safety, class will be cancelled and students will be notified via email within a reasonable timeframe. Email will be sent to you as a whole class through appstate email addresses, so check that email account if weather is questionable. In most cases, you can follow ASU’s home page as a guide for delays.
ABOUT YOUR TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO (NETS-T)
1. In this class, you are required to complete most of your NETS-T technology portfolio as required by the state of North Carolina for licensure (this is a component of your professional portfolio).
2. ALL PROJECTS WE DO IN CLASS MEET NETS-T COMPETENCIES. YOU WILL HAVE 18 OF THE 23 NETS-T COMPETENCIES MET THROUGH OUR CLASS PROJECTS. If you have projects from other classes that meet NETS-T competencies, AND you have written a rationale (Context, Impact, Alignment) for them, show them to me. If I approve them, upload them to your Professional portfolio AND THEN SHOW THEM TO ME FROM YOUR PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO. You will not have to include those competencies in rationales we write for projects in this class.
3. When you have met 18/23 competencies, I will give you an official check off sheet (compliance form). I will sign off on the 18 competencies you do in this class. You will give this check sheet to your student teaching supervisor at the beginning of your student teaching semester.
4. You can meet NETS-T competency VB during your block II semester or student teaching semester whenever you have to write a reflection for something you teach or will teach THAT INCLUDES TECHNOLOGY. You can get your instructor for that project to sign your NETS-T sheet once you get the rationale written and both it and the reflection uploaded to your professional portfolio.
5. When you student teach, you will meet competencies IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IIId. Your student teaching supervisor will sign off on these 4 competencies, and will then turn in your check sheet to the student teaching office at ASU, who will mail them to Raleigh where they are kept.
6. Before you give your NETS-T check sheet to your student teaching supervisor, make a Xerox copy for your records.
PROJECTS AND EVALUATION
Projects (80% of your final grade): You will have projects throughout the semester that will be graded. All but one of these projects will be uploaded to TaskStream and they will all fulfill NETS-T competencies.
· Wiki Warm up: In this project you will learn how to take good photographs, edit them with Adobe Photoshop, and contribute to a wiki. This project simulates a project that you can do with your future students as a beginning of the year “get to know each other” activity.
· Newsletter to families of internship: You will create a newsletter in Microsoft Publisher, introducing you as an intern to the families of the students in your block I internship, and you will later hand these out at your internship school.
· Video Production/iMovie project: In a group, you will script, plan, shoot and edit a video production based on a children’s book. You will use iMovie in the media lab to edit it.
· Teacher Classroom Webpage on Google: You will create a web page using iGoogle that you can use in your future classroom. We will also learn more features about iGoogle to use in your future career or to enhance your daily life.
· Professional portfolio (TaskStream): We will work on this all semester. You will include the 4 projects listed above, plus other components that will be described in class. You will be adding projects from other block classes, but for this assignment, I will be looking only at what we have done in CI3750. This is the only project that you will not write a rationale for, but you will turn it in through TaskStream to be graded just like your other projects.
GRADING
Wiki Warm up / =150 pointsNewsletter to families of internship / =100 points
iMovie / =250 points
Teacher Classroom Webpage on Google / =200 points
Professional portfolio / =100 points
Attendance and Participation / =200 points
Total / =1000 points
The grading scale is a 10 point grading scale with pluses and minuses (ex., 90-92 = A-; 88-89 = B+, etc.).
*Some work (ex., rationales) will be placed in individual student folders that you may get from a table in the classroom before class begins. Please do not remove your folder from the classroom. Check yourself here each day. Remove your previous assignments from your folder and put in your assignments for the current day. I will record the grade for each assignment on the check sheet attached to the inside of your folder. Look at the check sheet when you get a rationale, etc., back to make sure that I checked off your assignment. IF YOU HAVE A “REDO” ON A RATIONALE, IT IS DUE THE NEXT CLASS MEETING. STAPLE OR PAPER CLIP THE PAGE THAT I WROTE “REDO” ON TO THE REVISED PAGE. If I made corrections on your paper, but did NOT write “Redo,” you don’t have to show me the corrections, but you need to make the corrections on your professional portfolio.
Printing:
From the classroom, you can print to room 216 the laser printer (3 cents per page) or to the color printer (50 cents per page).
How to do Double Sided Printing (front and back):
1. Click on the File menu; pull to “print”
2. Click on the “Properties” box
3. Click on the radio button beside “long edge”
Saving:
Note: We have a program on the lab computers called “Deep Freeze” which erases documents saved to the hard drive upon each rebooting. Therefore, most files you save on the computer will be erased within a day (except for the places described on the computer desktop. Don’t depend on the hard drive to save your files; save to your memory key.
BE SURE THAT YOU SAVE EVERY 5 OR 10 MINUTES.
MAKE BACKUP COPIES DAILY ON YOUR HOME COMPUTER OR ANOTHER JUMP DRIVE!!! JUMP DRIVES AND HARD DRIVES CAN GO BAD, CAN GET LOST, AND THEY CAN GET VIRUSES.
Back up to your hard drive at home if you have a computer. At home, make a folder on your desktop called “USB backup.” Drag the contents of your USB key into this folder each day.
How to Remove a Memory Key (USB key; Jump Drive) from Your Computer:
(If you don’t follow this procedure and you simply pull your memory key from the USB port, it may erase your data).
1. Look at the system tray (the right part of the taskbar). You will see a green arrow. Left click on the green arrow.
2. Click on the gray message that pops up (“safely remove USB mass storage device).