Day 25: April 12

Today is a work day.  Attendance is optional.  Mr.  Chad Galloway is available in the lab to assist you with any questions you might have regarding your project.  Please take advantage of this time to make lots of progress!  Your site maps are due - place them in  your folder.

Day 24: April 10

Business

• Thursday
• Questions?

Handouts: page sketch

Activities

Business

Demo: Getting started on the first page
Demo: scanning

Your tasks:

• Work on site map (this is due Thursday)
• Sketch out your first page
• Begin constructing your first page

Day 23: April 5

Business

• Questions?

Handouts: none

Business

Discuss Assignment G (Personal Web Site) and Assignment H (Integrated Lesson Plan)

What is a site map?

Independently explore the Netscape Composer tutorial.Start on your homework assignment.

Day 22: April 2

Business

• Looking ahead
• Questions?

Handouts: none

Business

Finishing up with spreadsheets

Beginning to think about web sites: the basics of how they work (packet, p. 24-25)

Purpose and audience for web sitesA word about software choice: Netscape Composer; Microsoft Word; Claris Homepage; Microsoft FrontPage; Dreamweaver

Explore sample web sites. While you are doing this, look for elements that attract you: color combinations; types of pages; graphics; and overall web site purposes. Jot down your ideas for future reference.

EDIT 6150Past EDIT 2000/2020 projects

Business

• Aftermath of Assignment E: things I learned from your databases
• Questions?

Handouts: none

Business

Introduction to Microsoft Excel

A great Excel tutorial can be found here. Click here to view an example spreadsheet - this is a survey analysis.

Work on Assignment F.

Assignment F: This is very simple. Solve the problem on p. 48 in your course packet. Print out your spreadsheet when finished. You will receive 5 points for correct numerical answers. This is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, April 3.

Day 20: March 27

Business

• Questions?

Handouts: rubric for Assignment E

Business

A few more things about Microsoft Access: How to print a single record; searching; sortingWork on Assignment E. It's due at the end of the period. At 9:00, we will share them (VERY briefly).

If you finish early, you might choose to:

Share your database with somebody else who is finished ORRead the reading about spreadsheets in the packet, p. 121-131.

Day 19: March 22

If you can organize your kitchen, you can organize your life. --Louis Parrish

Business

Finishing up electronic lessons, including peer reviewsHang onto "Ethics on the Internet" (will refer to this later)Questions?

Today's objective: Organizing information with databases

Handouts: Getting Started with Microsoft Access

 

Activities

Business
Starting a database using Microsoft Access

Click here to see an example (you must have Microsoft Access on your machine for this to work)

Assignment E

Homework: Work on Assignment E.

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Day 18: March 15 Remember that Powerpoint is a useful tool for students, too. They can quickly and easily assimiliate, organize, and synthesize information and then present it in a way that's fun and fairly time-efficient.

Business

Midterm feedback: please click here to fill out the anonymous online surveyPeer reviewsSign up for batting order; one gets ready while the other presents; use odd numbers if you prefer PC, even if you prefer Mac (use the platform you developed the presentation on if possible)Hand me your rubric and printout right before you presentNo class meeting Tuesday, 3/20. (Expect extra homework to compensate...)I will likely have Assignment D graded by 3/22Questions?

Today's objectives: Teaching and learning with an electronic presentation design tool (Powerpoint) and databases

Handouts: 3 peer review forms (in your folder); OIT survey (optional)

 

Activities

Business
Finish Electronic Lesson Sharing
How databases work

Click here to see an example (you must have Microsoft Access on your machine for this to work)

Homework Assignment #6: Complete 3 peer review forms, using the handouts.Homework Assignment #7: Read "Ethics on the Internet", packet p. 73-79.(Nothing written required.)Homework Assignment #8: Create a database using index cards. Choose some other topic rather than states - try to choose a topic that is useful to you. Include at least 5 records (cards) and 5 fields (categories of information on the cards). Bring this to class on 3/22: you will use them to start an Access database.

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Day 17: March 13 When you perform you are out of yourself—larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. --Agnes de Mille

Business

Questions?Midterm feedback: please click here to fill out the anonymous online surveyPeer reviewsSign up for batting order; one gets ready while the other presents; use odd numbers if you prefer PC, even if you prefer Mac (use the platform you developed the presentation on if possible)Hand me your rubric and printout right before you present

Today's objectives: Teaching and learning with an electronic presentation design tool (Powerpoint)

Handouts: 3 peer review forms (in your folder); OIT survey (optional)

 

Business
Share Electronic Lessons
How databases work
 

Business

• Questions?
• Clean out your folders!
• Midterm feedback: please click here to fill out the anonymous online survey
• Status on Assignment D: We will present these on Tuesday, March 13. We will also do peer reviews.

Handouts: rubric for Assignment D

Activities

Business
Top Ten Powerpoint Booboos
Work on Assignment D
If you're finished...

You could leave, or...
Fill out the midterm survey
Check for Booboos
Check your project against the rubric
Critique my presentation for this afternoon, using the rubric
Lend a hand to someone with a question
Play around with the scanner
Swap projects with a buddy and proofread

Thought for today: "Be the change you want to see in the world." (Ghandi)

Business

• Questions?
• Assignment C feedback

Handouts: none

Activities

Business
Powerpoint:

• Graphics
• Transitions and custom animations
• Play with inserting hyperlinks
• Printing your slides and handouts
• Running the show

Work on Assignment D

Thought for today: "The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary." (May V. Smith)

Business

• Questions?
• Assignment C status

Handouts: none

Activities

1. Business
2. Powerpoint:

• Share instructional objectives
• Arranging stuff on slides
• Graphics: scanning; digital photography; clip art; Internet graphics; copyright
• Transitions and custom animations
• Printing your slides and handouts
• Running the show

Day 13: February 20

Thought for today: "Multimedia" means presenting ideas in more than one medium.  For example, with Microsoft Powerpoint and other electronic presentation design tools, you can present information through vision and sound.

Business

• Questions?

Handouts: Rubric for Assignment C; Creating a New Presentation Using "Blank Presentation"

Activities

1. Business
2. Finish up Assignment C: invisible tables; autoformatting for tables; those red and green squiggly lines; undo (Control-Z)
3. Introducing Powerpoint:

• Some examples: Checkout; Conference presentation; Dan's Ribs
• Why use an electronic presentation tool?
• Getting started with the outline view
• Views
• Templates

Thought for today: The four most important things to consider when buying computers are: amount of RAM, processor speed, hard drive size, and the guarantee.

Business

• Questions?

Handout: None

Activities

1. Business
2. General feedback on Assignment B
3. Bullets, numbering, tables, indents
4. Work on Assignment C

 

Work on Assignment C.

Day 11:   February 13

Business

• Assignment C: Resumes
• Write your name on rubric for Assignment B; leave in folder. Assignment B is due at the end of class.
• Questions?

Handout: Rubric for Assignment B

Activities

1. Business
2. Work on Assignment B
3. If you finish, go on to Assignment C

 

Work on Assignment C.

Day 10:   February 8

Business

• Assignment A: you should have in your folder
• HW5: you should have received a reply from me by now
• Access dropboxes from outside Aderhold
• Increasing text size for display in IE: View/Text Size/
• Questions?

Handout: none

Activities

1. Business
2. How do you shop on the Internet? Write good sites on board.
3. Work on Assignment B

 

Work on Assignment B.

Day 9:   February 6

Business

• Assignment A: I will have them graded by Thursday
• Questions?

Handout: 2 sample letters to use as formatting guides

Activities

1. Business
2. Share 1 web site each (demo a little; what you would use this for; strengths/weaknesses)
3. Introduce Assignment B

 

Work on Assignment B.

Day 8:   February 1

Today is Freedom Day. On this day in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln approved the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.   (from the Encyclopedia of Days)

Business

• Assignment A: remember to send as attachment. Name your file with your name, followed by AssgnmtA or some such:  "maryann-assnmt-a.doc"
• Questions?

Handout: Rubric for Assignment A

Activities

1. Business
2. Work on Assignment A (refer to rubric!)
3. Turn in Assignment A by end of class

Also, be prepared to share one of your reviewed web sites in class Tuesday.

Business

• By now you should have received acknowledgment of HW4
• New students: Michelle and Nadine
• Assignment A: remember to send as attachment. Name your file with your name, followed by AssgnmtA or some such:  "maryann-assnmt-a.doc"
• Transferring Mac-PC and vice versa
• Questions?

Handouts: Internet Search Tools Quick Reference Guide
Activities

1. Business
2. Two quick skills:
• Boolean logic
• Assessing reading levels in Word documents
3. Work on Assignment A
4. Attachments
5. Progress check

Business

• HW4 due now; I have already checked off many
• Resources page
• Questions?

Handouts:

1. Business
2. Web directories, and how they are different from search engines: Google; Yahoo
3. Two wonderful things: GALILEO and ERIC
4. Two not so wonderful things: the reason we need to evaluate web sites (Feline research; Zundelsite)
5. Introduce Assignment A
6. Work on Assignment A

Business

• If you didn't hear from me about HW3, you need to send it again.
• Reaction to HW3: tally of opinions
• Photographs
• New: Resources page
• Questions?

Handouts: ERIC Digest: Internet Resources for K-8 Students; Crispen's Twenty-One Essential Web Sites
Activities

1. Business
2. Tie up activity from Thursday
3. Readings: "Computer basics" and "Stages"
4. The Internet: a little information
5. Finding stuff on the Internet: search engines (Google; FastSearch; Alta Vista - see packet p. 3, 22-23)
6. HW4 preview (see below) skills: cut and paste; multi-tasking; two browser windows open simultaneously). Example from music education.
7. Begin surfing. Explore Crispen's URLs, ERIC Internet Resources (handouts).

Business

• Checking on my checking: you should know by now if I received HW2.  I'm not caught up with HW3 yet.
• Reaction to HW2: my favorite teacher
• Packet status: hope you have it by now
• Photographs
• Questions?

Activities

1. Business
2. One more look at file management
3. Benefits reading: reactions
4. What is technology?
5. Useful technologies for education
6. Technology-assisted teaching strategies: Group Activity 1 (click here to see groups)

• Sign roster and pick up folder
• Checking on my checking: if you do an assignment and receive no feedback or indication from me, follow up
• Check your email every day (except Sundays and holidays). Sometimes I might tell you something important that I forgot to say in class, or that someone has brought to my attention.
• Packet status
• Questions?

• Creating Your Folder in the Drop Box

Activities

1. Business
2. Email: attachments and sig files
3. Web browsers: setting bookmarks; IE vs Navigator
4. Game: Assumptions about technology and other things
5. Finish photography; Setting up your folder in the drop box; read "Benefits of Technology in Education;" get started on homework

Today (and hereafter) make sure to sign the Attendance Roster and pick up your folder.

Make sure to place your HW1 (Opening Day Questionnaire) in your folder.

Anyone who missed January 9 should make sure to see me.

Are there any questions about the syllabus?

Make sure to check your email every day (except weekends).

Take a moment to tape your score sheet into your folder.  Everything else you can empty out each time.

I see a lot of you have email accounts that are not on Arches. This is fine. However, eventually you will need an Arches account for your web space. Today we will take time to sign up for Arches accounts, so you might want to take advantage of this opportunity.  This doesn't mean that you have to actually use it for your email.

Activities

1. Business
2. Photographs (to help us get acquainted)
3. Basic desktop navigation: page 9 and 10 of packet; paired activity.
4. Establish email account if haven't done this yet
5. Begin studying "Benefits of Technology in Education"

Handouts:

• Colored folder; write your name on the tab
• Name card: write you name on one side, and Help! on the other
• Syllabus
• Opening Day Questionnaire
• Score Sheet

• Business
• Introduce the syllabus
• Other orientation items
• Think about your goals for this class
• Introduce us to each other

• HW1. Fill out the Opening Day Questionnaire to be turned in by Jan 11 (place it in your folder, which you should leave in the designated spot)
• Establish an email account if you have not already done so. Arches works best for this class (because the email support is excellent and you can post your web site there later).  Go to the Arches site and follow their directions.  Try to have this in place in time for you to submit an email homework assignment on Jan 16.