EDCT 501 Technology Applications in Education

Spring Quarter 2003
Wednesday 5:10-9:00 pm
217 McCracken, Windows Lab

Instructor: Dr. Sandra Turner, Professor
Office: 321B McCracken
Office hours: TuTh 9:00-11:00 a.m. (sign up on door for specific appointment time)
Phone: 593-9826
E-mail: turners@ohio.edu
Web site: Course handouts and resources are on the Blackboard web site

Course Description
The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with technology applications commonly found in educational settings. Students will word process, use spreadsheets, develop a database, use the Web, preview educational software, use hypermedia and create a Web page. Students will use computers to enhance classroom instruction, communication and classroom management. The course is designed to meet the requirements of the International Society for Technology in Education NETS Standards for Teachers.

Course Objectives
You are expected to meet the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers developed by the International Society for Technology in Education. These standards are found at: http://cnets.iste.org/teachers/t_stands.html. The standards cover six themes:

• Technology Operations and Concepts
• Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences
• Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum
• Assessment and Evaluation
• Productivity and Professional Practice
• Social, Ethical, Legal, and Human Issues

In addition, these standards require that teachers meet the National Educational Technology Standards for K-12 Students found at: http://cnets.iste.org/students/.

Textbook, Supplies, Fees

• Morrison, G. R., & Lowther, D. L. (2002). Integrating computer technology into the classroom (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill/Prentice Hall.
• An PC-formatted 100 MB or 250 MB Zip disk to save files.
• $10.00 printing fee. Pay at the Curriculum and Technology Center.
• OAK email account. Activate it and use it (or forward it).

Class Policies
Attendance is expected for each class. If you must miss a class, please e-mail or phone the instructor in advance. Absences may result in loss of points from your final grade.

Misconduct policy: “All forms of academic misconduct are prohibited by the Student Code of Conduct. Academic misconduct refers to dishonesty in examinations (cheating), presenting the ideas or the writing of someone else as one's own (plagiarism), or knowingly furnishing false information to the university by forgery, alteration, or misuse of university documents, records, or identification. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, the following examples: permitting another student to plagiarize or cheat from your work, submitting an academic exercise (written work, printing, sculpture, computer program) that has been prepared totally or in part by another, acquiring improper knowledge of the contents of an exam, using unauthorized material during an exam, submitting the same paper in two different courses without knowledge and consent of professors, or submitting a forged grade change slip.” (Ohio University Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog 2002). Procedures outlined in the current Student Handbook will be followed.

Assignments and Evaluation
Criteria for the 16 assignments are available on Blackboard. The assignments are graded on their instructional value and visual layout as well as on your demonstration of technical proficiency. In addition, you are expected to do assigned readings, participate in class discussions and online Blackboard discussions (15 pts).

Assignment 1. Kid Pix slide show (10 pts)
Assignment 2. Word processing and camera: About Me (10 pts)
Assignment 3. Word processing (table, page numbers, clip art): Letter to Parents (10 pts)
Assignment 4. Review of one journal article (10 pts)
Assignment 5. Web bookmarks (10 pts)
Assignment 6. Lesson plan integrating Web into K-12 curriculum (10 pts)
Assignment 7. Drawing: seating chart (10 pts)
Assignment 8. Software evaluations: one written (10 pt), one oral (5 pt)
Assignment 9. Spreadsheet activity (10 pts)
Assignment 10. Chart/graph: temperature data (10 pts)
Assignment 11. Lesson plan integrating spreadsheets into K-12 curriculum (10 pts)
Assignment 12. PowerPoint activity (10 pts)
Assignment 13. Database activity (10 pts)
Assignment 14. HyperStudio stack (20 pts)
Assignment 15. Personal Web page (10 pts)
Assignment 16. CD Portfolio (20 pts)

Grades will be assigned based on the following percentage of points earned (total = 200):

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