Theme for the day: Assessment

Handouts: Website rubrics; Peer review forms

Business:

• Tonight's agenda
• Coming up
• Submission: write your URL and name on the rubric. ALSO: send the URL via email to me and Chad (cgallowa@coe.uga.edu).
• We have a lot to grade very quickly - and it may be several days before we get around to grading your website. If you have real concerns about your web site - email me and request an early review.  If I find that your project is not in the 90% range, I will let you know.  I hope that most of you will not fall into this category.  You can depend upon the rubric - if you are confident that you have fulfilled all requirements and clearly demonstrated them, then you will make a high score.
• For this semester-end grading rush, we will not be giving detailed feedback.  Later - if you would like detailed feedback on your project, send me an email and I will go back over your project for the sole purpose of giving you constructive feedback.  In any case, you can email me on Dec. 14 and I will send you your final scores and grade.
• Clean out your folder of everything I don't need. I need to keep the folder itself along with the website rubric and scoresheet.
• At semester's end, dropbox contents may disappear suddenly with no warning.
• Soon a page of your projects will appear at http://it.coe.uga.edu/~mfitzger/6150/projects.html.
• Questions?

• 4:40 - until:  Last chance to get your webpage mounted and troubleshot.  We will lend assistance as necessary.  If your webpage is ready and "perfect,"  please lend a hand to someone else who may be having trouble.
• Business
• Tip of the day:  If you find a webpage you like, sometimes you can "borrow" it by clicking File/Edit Page in Netscape Composer.  Make sure this is ethically appropriate first.  This can be useful if you want to borrow the layout of a page, like with a complex table.  Sometimes this won't work because of dynamic coding, etc. - but it can be worth a try.
• Showcase: Please complete the 3 peer reviews you've been given, and make sure three people review you.  Today, everyone should take their own forms home.
• Remember to indicate your pedagogical theme on your rubric.
• It is important to fill in both sides of the review form!  No web site is ever complete nor perfect - what specific suggestions do you have?
• Project listing
• Use your namecards.  We'll do this willy-nilly - I think it will work.
• Final words
• Course evaluations

I haven't lost any students due to web pages, yet. My score is 76-0.

Handouts: How to use FTP for Arches

Activities:
1. Final software demos

• Sooyoung
• Hongjun
• Karen

• Today's agenda
• Coming up
• Muddy points
• New Resources:
• Barry's Clip Art
• Pics4Learning
• Homework
• Questions?

4. Themes of the Day
By now you can see that creating an open-ended project like a web site involves a number of higher-order thinking skills.  Problem-solving and creativity are two of these.

5. Tech Tips of the Day: Surviving the final stages of web site construction (optional attendance)

WS-FTP: see handout

Top three problems with making web pages with Composer:

File names MUST have no spaces.  Uppercase letters and punctuation are two other things that cause problems with certain servers.  This includes graphics files.

Don't lose your graphics!  When you download them ("save image as"), make sure to save the image to your web folder and keep it in there.  Graphics files MUST accompany the web page file itself.  Keep everything together in a single folder.  (And back it up in more than one place!)

Watch your links for extra "garbage" that Composer puts in there.  Your links should always be a real URL (starting with http://etc.)  OR a single file name with no slashes (like this: index.html; these are called relative links.  Relative links must refer to files within the same folder).

Homework:

• Web sites are due next time.

Handouts: none

Activities:
1. 4:40-5:00: Business

• Today's agenda
• Coming up
• New: Web Site Rubric
• Absolute Background Textures Archive:  Remember to check graphics sites to determine if any materials you take may be used in the way you intend - I truly believe that honoring copyright protects creativity.
• Homework
• Questions?

2. Muddy points
3. Guest: Evan Glazer - Spreadsheets

4. Theme of the Day: Problem Solving
5. Tech Tips of the Day: using the scanner - optional attendance
6. Muddy points - optional attendance
7. Open lab (optional attendance)
 

Homework:

• Read Thomas Cutshall's article about web design.
• Work on your web site - by Monday, try to have your visual scheme developed and most of your graphical elements gathered. By then, it's good to have one or more of your pages in the building stage.  Think about the guidelines from Cutshall's article - but it may not be possible to accomplish everything he suggests in this first project.

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Day 11: Monday, November 5, 2001

Theme for the Day: Motivation

Handouts: Rubrics for Resource Collection

Activities:
1. 4:40-5:00: project setup and last minute troubleshooting for Access projects
2. Business

• Today's agenda
• Resources posted from last class: Technology Integration (see Resources page, "Teaching with Technology")
• Coming up
• Homework
• Questions?

3. Theme of the Day: Motivation is vital to education. How can we design instructional media to help motivate students?
4. Sharing of Electronic Resource Collections (no peer reviews this time)

• Project Listing
• 20 minutes or so in each round

6. Getting started with Netscape Composer (optional attendance)

Outline:

• Plot your site before you open the software.
• Make files first.
• Basic elements: text, graphics, links, tables

Some resources:

• An outline for getting started: Web Design for Reluctant Media Specialists
• Projects from last summer
• Netscape composer tutorial

Homework:

• Explore one of the spreadsheet tutorials provided at InterMath.
• Work on your web site - try to have the basic purpose, site layout, and homepage sketch done by next Monday.

Handouts: none

Activities:
1. Software Demo: Yeonha
2. Business

• Today's agenda
• Coming up
• Homework
• Questions?

3. Theme of the Day: Technology Integration - Chad
4. Tech Tips of the Day: (optional attendance)

• Manipulating field size in Access
• Printing reports in Access:  This time, I DO recommend that you use wizards.
• How to print a single record from Access97

Homework:
Finish Assignment F.  Bring the e-version to class for sharing. Remember to check the Components and Format for the Assignment - a little different that usual.  We will begin class at 5pm to allow you time to set up your assignment for sharing.

Handouts: none

Activities:
1. Software Demos: Summer, Ruijie
2. Business

• Today's agenda
• Debriefing on your Powerpoint assignment
• Clean out your folders
• If you are re-submitting something, please mark it in some way
• Coming up
• Questions?

3. Tech Tip of the Day: Printing tips for Powerpoint: how to save toner and ink; color transparencies
4. Constructed versus Received Knowledge Experiment: an activity adapted from an idea of Dr. Ken Hay's

• Hand your questions and answers in to me.  (Don't share, don't peek!)
• Group yourselves in twos or threes - three is best.
• Each group member should present their lesson to the other group members.  Learners may take notes and ask questions. Move quickly through this - no long discussions.
• I will reveal the rest of the activity at the appropriate time! :-)

Homework:

• Take your original Georgia Technology Standards for Educators survey and give yourself a midterm update.  Reflect upon your progress, and reassess your goals. (No deliverable required.)
• Use an online database (like GALILEO) to find a recent article about technology integration (within past 3 years).  Print or download the article - read - bring to class next week to share. This will set the stage for Chad's exploration of this topic.

Handouts:  Rubrics for Assignment E; 7 blank index cards; Getting Started with Microsoft Access

Activities:
1. 4:40-5:00: Last-minute fixes; load your presentations
2. Business

• Today's agenda
• Write your name on a Rubric; fill in Pedagogical Theme
• Clean out your folders
• If you are re-submitting something, please mark it in some way
• Coming up
• Questions?

• Print out full-page slides; run them through the copier on overhead transparencies
• Post your Powerpoint file on a web server somewhere: if your computer breaks down, you may be able to borrow someone else's and download your presentation from the Internet
• Bring your presentation on at least one portable medium (disk)
• When you're using a computer without Powerpoint: save your presentation as a Powerpoint Show; or, save it as a web presentation

• Remember to fill in both boxes!
• Give priority to those peer reviews you need to do. Then, visit the projects you are most interested in.
• Use your namecards.
• We will give 5-minutes warnings near the end of each round.

7. Getting started with databases: Microsoft Access

• Hands-on non-digital activity: old-fashioned databases
• Example:  Music
• Getting Started with Microsoft Access 2000
• Assignment F

Access 97 and Access 2000 differ somewhat in the set-up stage.  Databases created in 2000 may not open in Access 97, but 97 databases work well in 2000.  If you need "Getting Started with Access 97," click here.

• To prepare for an activity we're going to do next week:
• Choose a concrete topic that is unfamiliar to you AND probably unfamiliar to others in the class
• Create a 3-slide Powerpoint lesson on this topic
• Write a 3-question "test" based on this lesson: objective questions with short answers (no multiple-choice, true-false, or essay)
• Bring your slides printed out and in electronic form; bring your "test" on a separate sheet of paper
• Don't collaborate (for once!) - don't share this with anybody yet.
• Find connections between the GTSE Standards and using databases.
• Brainstorm at least three ways you might use databases in your teaching/learning situation.

Handouts:  Midterm Questionnaire; extra GEM surveys and consent forms if needed

Activities:
1. Software Demos: Beth, Lisa S., Yookyung, Patty
2. Business

• Today's agenda
• Coming up
• Questions?

7. Open lab (optional attendance)
 

Homework: Electronic lessons are due Oct. 15.

Handouts:  none
Business:

• Today's agenda
• Coming up
• Debrief on Web eval assignment: resubmission; research invitation
• Questions?

1. Establish 6 groups of 2-3 people
2. Each group will receive an aspect of Powerpoint to explore from this list:
• Outlining
• Graphics
• Sound
• Linking
• Animations and transitions
• Running the show and presentation tips
3. Your group task is to learn as much as possible within 45 minutes about this skill.  As a group, produce a mini-presentation (no more than 3 slides) to share with the rest of the class.  We will post these as resources.
4. Possible inquiry strategies:
• Find out what group members know about this skill
• Ask others outside the group (instructors included)
• Study help files
• Look in fat books
• Look on the Internet
5. Groups will briefly share their mini-presentations

7. (If time remains): lab
 

Homework: Read Chapter 6.  This week, you should make a lot of progress on your Powerpoint project.  Bring it to class next week for development work.

Handouts:  none
Business:

• Today's agenda
• Days are getting shorter: don't walk alone in the dark after class. Use the Escort service.
• Coming up
• Debrief on WebQuest assignment: resubmission
• Questions?

• Why should I use Powerpoint?
• Helps with learning via Standards 18 (workplace technologies), 20 (standards-based), 23 (variety of strategies, learning styles), 24, 68, 79, 83 (synthesis), 116 (presentation software), 118 (stash of lesson plans), 125, 126, probably others.
• Several ways to convey information:

• Kiosk style (runs continuously by itself)
• Game
• Straightforward lesson
• Professional presentation (information quality)
• Tutorial: a presentation meant to be controlled by the individual learner, sort of like a WebQuest. Powerpoint can use branching links to give the learner a lot of control over the presentation.
• 3 ways to begin: templates; outline view; blank slide view
• Interface tour

Homework: Read Chapter 5. Explore Powerpoint-related links on Resource page.

Handouts:  Peer Review Forms (already in your folders)
Business:
 

• Don't forget to sign up for your software demo
• Today's agenda
• Days are getting shorter: don't walk alone in the dark after class. Use the Escort service.
• Coming up
• Questions?

Activities:
1. Demo of a Software Demo  (GTSE Standards 5, 6, 49, 50, 53, 130, 131)
2. Business
3. Theme of the Day
4. Tech Tip of the Day: Autocorrect in Microsoft Word
5. Showcase: WebQuests

Project Listing: jot down the names of projects you are particularly interested in seeing.

Showcase procedure

Students in Round 1 will "host" their projects while the other half will visit around to view them.  In Round 2, we will reverse roles.

Your feedback: almost anything works as feedback AS LONG AS it is stated constructively.  Make sure to highlight the parts that work well. Point out the parts that don't, and suggest strategies for improvement. No project is ever perfect, and therefore improvement is always possible.

I'm not sure how long this will take - probably 30-45min per round.  Give priority to those peer reviews you need to do. Then, visit the projects you are most interested in.

Use your namecards.

We will give 5-minutes warnings near the end of each round.

Complete the 3 peer reviews in your folder, and leave them in there. It's OK to trade review forms with someone else if you do so ethically and this doesn't hold up the works.

Round 1: Tori, Hongjun, Yeonha, Haley, Ashley, Summer, Lisa M.

Brief break   (5 minutes)

Round 2: Yookyung, Ruijie, Karen, Patty, Lisa S., Beth, SooYoung

Homework: Assignment D is due next week.  Read Chapter 4.

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Day 3: Monday, September, 2001
Room 233

Themes for the Day: Literacy; Standards

Handouts:  none
Business:
 

• Don't forget to sign up for your software demo
• Today's agenda: attendance is optional after Chad's Scavenger Hunt
• Job Aids from Aug. 27 group activity are now posted on the Resource Page
• Problems with completing your Score Sheet?  All should be completely filled out by end of tonight's class.
• Coming up
• If you have chosen Option B, please feel free to take advantage of our assistance during lab time.
• Questions?

Activities:
1. Demo of a Software Demo  (GTSE Standards 5, 6, 49, 50, 53, 130, 131)
2. Business
3. Tech Tip of the Day: Virus protection
3. Standards: The Georgia QCCs and The Learning Connection.  You may want to use a learning standard as the basis of your WebQuest.
4. Reading response to Chapter 3
5. WebQuests: Skills workshop (Most of this material is applicable to many different technology tasks.)

• WebQuests involve GTSE #s 20, 23, 25, 51, 56 and others
• Word processing basics
• Questions about what goes in a WebQuest; share good ones you found
• Searching:  search engines (Google; FastSearch; Alta Vista).  Directories: Alta Vista, Yahoo.  Scavenger Hunt by Chad.
• Being careful on the Internet: two examples Feline research; Zundelsite
• Making links in Microsoft Word: a skill you will use in many different ways
• Making it pretty: backgrounds; graphics; web view, normal view, and page layout view

Homework:  Read pp. 180-191.  WebQuest is due next week.

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Day 2: August 27, 2001
Theme for the Day:  Standards
Related ideas: Prior Knowledge; Task Analysis; Collaborative Learning; Job Aids; Inquiry

Handouts: none

Schedule (this will always be flexible, but here is the basic plan):
4:40-5:30:  Discuss Norton, chapters 1 & 2 - led by Chad
5:30-5:45:  Business
5:45-7:15:  Break + Basic skills activity
7:15-7:40:  Introduction to WebQuests

Business:

• Welcome to Lisa McBrayer
• Overview for tonight; Theme of the Day
• Be thinking about when you would like to do your Software Demo.  Please sign up if you're ready (ask for the course calendar).  You may email this information to me if you choose.
• Remember that next week is a holiday!
• Coming up

Process:

1. Overview of today's Standards. (I chose these standards - basic computer skills - because my experience teaches me that students often have misconceptions or gaps of understanding in these basic skills.)
2. Establish groups of 3 or so.
3. Each group will receive a GTSE standard from the set below.
4. Your group task is to learn as much as possible within today's class period about this skill.  As a group, produce a 1-page Job Aid to share with the rest of the class.  (Your Job Aid need not be beautiful.)  Job Aid examples: one; two.
5. Possible inquiry strategies:
• Find out what group members know about this skill
• Ask others outside the group (instructors included)
• Study help files
• Look on the Internet
6. Groups will report out and share their job aids either later tonight or via email (we will play this by ear)

Introduction to WebQuests

• What is a WebQuest?
• An example of a WebQuest; The WebQuest Page
• What goes in a WebQuest? WebQuest Assignment.  Remember that a WebQuest need not be for K-12: any learning audience, any topic is appropriate.  Click here to see a helpful guide.

• Fill in your Individual Score Sheet (list each assignment, due dates, and number of points).
• Explore some sample web quests.
• If you are doing a WebQuest: formulate a good idea of what the topic will be.  Sketch out in a Word document as many parts of the WebQuest as you can.  Bring any questions you have to class.
• If you are NOT doing a WebQuest: think ahead to your first project.  What will its topic be? Who will the audience be? What do you need to know before you can get started?  Bring any questions you have to class.
• Read Norton, Chapter 3.

Handouts: Opening Day Questionnaire; folders; namecards; score sheets; Georgia Technology Standards for Educators

Activities

1. Opening Day Questionnaire: fill out and return tonight
2. Syllabus
3. Assignment overviews
4. Introductions
5. Bookstore closes, 8 p.m.

 

• Fill out Georgia Technology Standards for Educators.  This diagnostic instrument will help shape the course over the weeks to come.
• Think about some projects you might like to accomplish as a part of this class.  Go ahead and choose between Option A and Option B.  I won't ask Option B folks to choose exact assignments and due dates for one more week.
• Establish an email account if you have not already done so, and make sure you have a UGA MyID.  Go to Arches to accomplish all of this.
• Read Chapters 1 and 2 in Norton.