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May 2, 2012
Today: Professional Web Site: Add "Technology" page. Write: 21st Century Teaching with Technology Skills Add items you feel comfortable with, such as:
 * 1. Add Technology Skills** page on your professional web site.
 * Managing a class Wikispace
 * Creating web sites using Google Sites, Weebly
 * Web 2.0 tools: Voki, Prezi, SlideShare,
 * Digital movie editing using iMovie
 * Creating instructional materials or games for SmartBoard
 * Microsoft Office: Word, PowerPoint, Excel
 * Teaching with iPads; Evaluating appropriate apps for teaching

Write a 1 page concise (but substantial) plan for keeping your technology skills up to date.
 * 2. Finish writing Technology Plan.** Copy paste on your wiki page, at the bottom of the page.

Steps: a. Use the MTTS Self-Assessment Chart to identify your areas of strength and need. b. Write a paragraph on the significance of technology and technology uses in your particular field. c. Write a rationale for using technology in your teaching. Why use technology? d. Write a plan for keeping your technology skills up to date. Where you are now in terms of educational technology. What areas are you good at? What are your areas of improvement? What are your next steps? Enumerate specific goals. Make your goals SMART - specific, measurable, achievable within a reasonable amount of time. What do you need to do to be one of the technology leaders in your future school? e. Write your final statement. A positive attitude is most important. What will be your edtech "mantra" for yourself when it comes to technology?

TEACHING VIDEO Aim for 3 - 5 minutes. Add information: your name, mentor, grade level, school placement, Spring 2012 EXPORT as movie, medium size. Name it "Internship 1" or "Teaching Assistantship", whichever the case. Upload to TaskStream as video.
 * 3. Finish teaching video.**

On TaskStream, click on the HOME button. Click on ENTER CODE. Enter the code **TechSp12**. Start working on your DRF. Upload the following assignments MTTS 4: Gradebook - Any gradebook you may have MTTS 5: Lesson Plan, Reflections, and video MTTS 7: Professional Development Plan (for Technology)
 * 4: Upload video and lesson plan on TaskStream.**

NEXT WEEK = **PIZZA PARTY!** = = **Why? Teaching with Technology Presentations on May 9.** = You'll be in small groups and each will take turns presenting. Other faculty may be present. REMINDER: All assignments and make-up assignments should be submitted. After May 9, it's GAME OVER.

April 25, 2012: Professional Development
Professional Web Site: Add "Technology" page. Write: 21st Century Teaching with Technology Skills Add items you feel comfortable with, such as: Creating a class wikispace Build websites using Google Sites, Weebly, and TaskStream Web 2.0 tools: Prezi, SlideShare, Voki, Animoto, (write programs you know how to use) etc.

1. A WebQuest on Professional Development

2. Assignment 12 (The Last One!) Technology Plan - 5 points

Write a 1 page concise (but substantial) plan for keeping your technology skills up to date.

Steps: a. Use the MTTS Self-Assessment Chart to identify your areas of strength and need. b. Write a paragraph on the significance of technology and technology uses in your particular field. c. Write a rationale for using technology in your teaching. Why use technology? d. Write a plan for keeping your technology skills up to date. Where you are now in terms of educational technology. What areas are you good at? What are your areas of improvement? What are your next steps? Enumerate specific goals. Make your goals SMART - specific, measurable, achievable within a reasonable amount of time. What do you need to do to be one of the technology leaders in your future school? e. Write your final statement. A positive attitude is most important. What will be your edtech "mantra" for yourself when it comes to technology?

April 18, 2012
**1. Last few weeks!** 3/4 of the semester over, and we're on our last quarter.

April 18 - Assignment 11 Professional Web Site - Create / Update April 25 - Professional Development - Writing your Assignment 12 Technology Plan. May 2 - Deadline for Assignments 10 and 11. Present your technology integration lesson in class. May 9 - Upload on TaskStream; Final class activities

Last few assignments: Assignment 9 - Teaching Video (in which you are teaching with technology) 10 points Assignment 10 - Integrating Technology in Teaching - Lesson Plan and Reflections - 15 points Assignment 11 - Professional Web Site - 10 points Assignment 12 - Technology Plan - 5 points

Note: Failure to submit completed TaskStream electronic portfolios will result in a grade of **Incomplete**.

April 11, 2012
1. Finish your instructional video (in which you are teaching a concept or doing a demonstration)

2. Finish your teaching video (in which you are teaching with technology)

3. Please prepare a hard copy of the lesson plan you used while teaching with technology. Include a technology standard here. (If you're not sure where to find the technology standard, ask Ms. Kendra or me.)

4. Write a reflection paper on your teaching with technology session. Use the following guide questions on your reflections:

a. Which type of technology did you integrate in your teaching? b. What was the advantage of using this technology over other options? What was the advantage of using this technology over not using technology at all for this lesson? c. Did the lesson proceed as you have planned? Did everything work out? Did you have problems with technology? If you did, what did you do to address the issue that arose? d. How did the students respond to the lesson with technology? e. What will you do differently if you were to reteach this lesson? What other options, in terms of technology integration, will you consider next time you were to teach this same lesson?

NOTICE: Late assignments will be accepted until the last day of class. Labs will be closed during exam week. There will be no graduate assistants who can assist you with finishing any assignment you haven't finished during exam week. During exam week, I will be busy with grading and will no longer be able to assist you if you have questions. I cannot entertain questions anymore during finals week. If you are behind on your work, I strongly suggest to get to it as soon as possible.

April 4, 2012
1. A little bit of Excel

2. Work on Instructional Videos

Grading: Your instructional video should have: Title Page (1 point) Your name, Frostburg State University, Spring 2012 (1 point) Textual information on terms, important concepts or other important information on your instructional video (3 points) Video Narration (your talking): Proper introduction, explanation/lesson proper, and closing statement (3 points) Closing credits (1 point) Overall creativity in the presentation (the impressive factor) (1 point)

**Excel Problem Set**
Select one of the following. Organize the data and represent with a chart. You may confer with a classmate, but you must create your own chart. Be ready to copy and paste your table and chart on to your own wiki page.

=Elluminate = = =  =March 28, 2012 =
 * Chuck currently weighs 189 lbs. Calculating BMI for his height of 5'10", reaching 173 will get him within the range of a normal weight. Considering that healthy weight loss should not be more than 8 lbs a month, create a weight tracking chart that will show Chuck's progress toward his goal of 173 lbs. The chart should have a place for Chuck to log his weight each week.
 * The Girl Scouts are working on a project. They want to create a club house. The school has already set aside one room they can use and a local designer volunteered for free to design a nice club house for the girls. They will need $300 to pull off this project, on top of what they will get out of cookie sales. The girls go on different fund raising activities. In January, they earned $45 on a bake sale. In February, they earned $65 during a car wash week-end. A spring garage sale from donated items brought them $110 in March. Organize this data and represent it in a chart that will show the girls project towards their goal.

Course Check: Where are we at this point?

Assignments Accomplished: Assignment 1 - Wiki Page (5 points) Assignment 2 - iPad Teaching Idea (5 points) Assignment 3 - Treasure Hunt (10 points) Assignment 4 - Virtual Field Trip (10 points) Assignment 8 - Smart Notebook Activity (10 points)

Upcoming Assingments: Assignment 5 - Instructional Video (10 points) Assignment 6 - Excel Activity 1- Gradebook (5 points) Assignment 7 - Excel Activity 2 - Item Analysis (5 points) Assignment 9 - Teaching Video (10 points) Assignment 10 - Integrating Technology in Teaching: Lesson Plan, Reflections (15 points) Assignment 11 - Professional Web Site (10 points) Assignment 12 - Technology Plan (5 points)

=1. Using Videos in Instruction = Videos are great teaching tools for presenting information and demonstrating procedures. Videos are engaging and easier to comprehend than written text. It's often better to "show" than "tell", right?

Most instructional videos may be categorized into two: 1. Explaining a concept 2. Demonstrating a procedure

Take a look at the following example:

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In this class, you will create two videos: your teaching video and an instructional video. We'll use iMovie to edit your work.

=2. Getting to Know iMovie = Introduction to iMovie 11

More iMovie Tutorials

Step 1: Start a Project

Step 2: Add Photos

Step 3: Add a Theme

Step 4: Add Textual Information

Step 5: Publish and Share your Video

=3. Working on your Teaching Video =

1. Download your photos from Picasa. Get on your album. Click on the photo. Click on ACTIONS, download photo. 2. Import photos to iPhoto. Go to iPhoto. FILE, Import photo, look for the photo you want to import. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">3. Launch iMovie 11 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">4.Import photos you have taken from your school into iMovie. Click on the camera button and you will see photos in your iPhoto. Click on the ones you want to include. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">5. Add textual information: Your name, school placement, mentor teacher, grade level. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">6. Add a section on "Technology in my Classroom" and/or "Technology at School" <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">7. Your project gets automatically saved. At this point, it is an iMovie project that you can't share with others yet. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">8. Now, although this is partially finished, publish this project. Click on SHARE, upload to your YouTube. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Do you have a Google Account? If not create one now. If you have Picasa, that's the same username and password for YouTube. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">If you have a Google Account, use the same username and password to get started with YouTube. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Publish your partially finished teaching video on YouTube and embed within your Wiki Page.

=<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 1.4em;">4. Working on your Instructional Video =

= = = = =<span style="color: #5a0c5a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">March 17, 2012 =

1. Finish Virtual Field Trip.
2. Assignment: Instructional Video

Class Reminder: We need a video of you teaching with technology. You will edit this using iMovie. We'll learn that later.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.3em;">February 29, 2012 - March 7, 2012
<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.3em;">Assignment Reminders- Make sure the following four assignments are DONE, with correct links/files on your wiki page, and ready to be graded by March 14, 2012: Assignment 1 – Wiki Page (5 points)

Assignment 2 – iPad Teaching Idea (5 points)

Assignment 3: Treasure Hunt (10 points)

Assignment 4: Virtual Field Trip (10 points)

Smart Notebook

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.3em;">Virtual Field Trips (VFT)
A virtual field trip is a web-based activity designed to bring students to a location digitally through computers. This may include a visit to museums, public service buildings, cities, towns, shops, farms, or factories. Most VFTs are based on real places. However, imaginary places may be considered for a VFT. Possibilities include settings of fantasy stories, such as elven, underworld, or out there in the universe. Virtual field trips can offer students opportunities that is not otherwise available since you can take them to places they normally won't see, such as inside a volcano, at the bottom of the ocean floor, or out there in the universe. For your project, however, I encourage you to work on places you know or have seen. Sharing where you have been may inspire students to travel. Sharing local areas will enhance appreciation for the home culture.

Components: Slideshow, Map/s, Video, Worksheet, Lesson Plan.

Virtual Field Trips come in different forms. Take a look at this example, which is mostly photographs and narration. Edith & Joe's 1920's Farmhouse There are more VFTs of this type at Utah Education Network The program is somewhat dated, but the information are useful. With advances in technology, VFTs will become more powerful.

Some museums include materials you can use in designing a virtual field trip, such as these materials that are available at the Fallingwater web site: Fallingwater

You can use any web site authoring tool, such as Google Sites, to create a VFT. For our purpose, we will use TaskStream. Here's one I have used while teaching a course in ECE: Virtual Field Trip to Children's Museums I was wishing then that we could have visited a children's museum as a class, but that was not possible. A VFT is the next best thing.

Take a look at two student examples:

Jenny Naley's VFT to Hershey Park

Marielle Vallano's VFT to Costa Rica

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.3em;">TASK: Get started with your own VFT
Plan for a virtual field trip. Put together original photographs and significant information to accompany each photograph. Place your materials on a flash drive or email it to yourself. See assignment guidelines for constructing your VFT on Blackboard. We'll walk through it in class. We'll start your slideshow today and add the other pages. Between now and Monday, add photographs and narration (with important information), worksheet and lesson plan.

Today, we will create a title slide using PowerPoint. a. Open PowerPoint b. Select a design that is colorful and appropriate for your topic. Select a lay-out that will allow for the biggest size of font. c. Type in a title, e.g. Welcome to Hershey Park! or Off we go to Deep Creek Lake. Feel free to be creative. d. Add your name. e. Make the title and your name bigger, with the title much bigger than your name. Tweak your slide until it looks great. f. SAVE AS PICTURE. Type in vft(place), e.g. vfthershey g. Your specific slide has been named Slide1 within your ppt presentation folder. Rename this to vfttitleslide.jpg To rename, click slowly two times on your file and type in the new name.

Next, go to TaskStream. a. Log on to TaskStream b. Create a new web page using General Template, Web Page, Do not use a template - Start from Scratch. c. Select a design. d. Click on Edit content. e. Add pages to the main page: Map, Worksheet, Lesson Plan. Remember to click on the main page each time before adding a new area. f. Add a slide show. Name it, "Welcome!" or "Let's visit...." or something similar. g. Add your title slide to the slide show. The image name will show in bold, so for this one, it should read again as a welcoming note. On the description, provide an introduction to the location for this virtual field trip. h. Save and Return. i. Click on Web View to see how it looks. j. Publish, no password needed. Click on the web site address. A page comes up. Copy the web address and post on your wiki page.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.3em;">February 22, 2012
<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.3em;">Finish your Treasure Hunt Project. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.3em;">Double check your work against the checklist for grading available on Blackboard Assignment Guidelines. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.3em;">Remember to upload the correct URL on your wiki page.

Go over assignment guidelines in Blackboard.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.4em;">1. Add Graphics Note: Make sure the graphics you add are copyright free. Even so, remember to cite your source. Put the citation at the bottom of your page, in small letters. . <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.4em;">2. Lesson Plan

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.4em;">a. Standards - Content Standards - Technology Standards

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.4em;">b. Procedure
 * Preparation - Make arrangements beforehand for date and time for taking the students to the computer lab. Make sure you can access the Treasure Hunt web site. On the day of the lesson, prior to bringing students to the lab, prepare the computers, open the browsers, and type in your Treasure Hunt web address.

1. Introduction - The purpose of this portion of your lesson is to activate schema and to reach to students' prior knowledge. WHY do you need to tap into your students' prior knowledge? What are your options of tapping into your students' prior knowledge? . 2. Present the treasure hunt activity. What will you say to students?

3. Distribute worksheets. What instructions will you give about the worksheet?

4. Allow students time to do the Treasure Hunt, filling up their worksheets as they go along. 15 minutes.

5. Bring the class together. Discuss answers to the questions. Lead students to the Big Question. (State your big question and anticipated responses.)

6. Close discussion. Summarize.

7. Collect worksheets.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.4em;">3. Worksheet in PDF

Create a worksheet based on your questions. Use Microsoft Word. Make it appealing with appropriate graphics, readable font size and style, and clean lay-out. Consider your students' age range. You don't want a worksheet that will take too long to finish. For younger students, this may have to be fill in the blanks. Turn your worksheet into portable document format (PDF). Upload the PDF copy. . NOTE: To turn your Microsoft worksheet into PDF, go to PRINT > PDF > Save as PDF. Give it a name you can remember. .

**<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Publish your Treasure Hunt **
Click on Publish/Share > Publish > Select No password needed > Publish. Click on the generated web address. Your Treasure Hunt will show on a new window. Copy and paster the uniform resource locator (URL or web address) on to your wiki page.

===<span style="color: #5a0c5a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.4em;">iPad Info: If you wish to project what is on your iPAD, connect it to the classroom LCD projector using the Apple VGA cable. It looks like this: ===



= = = February 1, 2012 = = = = Student Photos = = = = iPads in the Classroom = = = = Group Activity: A Biology Lesson using iPads = = = = ** Assignment 3: iPad Teaching Idea ** - Locate an app you can use for teaching. Write a teaching idea on how you will teach with this app. One page write-up. Add a graphic of the app. We will be posting your teaching idea write-ups on our iPad bulletin board. (5 points) =

To capture the graphic, launch **GRAB**. Click on CAPTURE > SELECTION > Click on one corner and drag diagonally to select your app graphic > SAVE.

Open Word. Click on **INSERT** > PHOTO FROM FILE > locate your graphic

Use Word Art or a huge font size for the **name of the graphic**.

Add a brief **description** of the graphic and an **idea** on how to use this for teaching.

Add your name at the bottom. Write, **Recommended by (Your Name), Spring 2012**

**PRINT > PDF > Save as PDF**

Insert the PDF file on your wiki page. = = = = = = =<span style="color: #5a0c5a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.4em;">Welcome to our class wiki! =

1. Create your wiki page.

 * Join this wiki.
 * Create a new page.
 * Write your section and name, e.g. Adam Burnett
 * Upload a portrait of yourself.
 * Write your name and program (PE / Secondary - Major).
 * Write your school placement(s), grade level and mentor teacher.
 * Add a link to your professional weebly site. (If you don't have one, I'll help you set one up later before class ends.)

Scoring:
 * Correct format for page title - 1 point
 * Portrait - 1 point
 * Information - 2 points
 * Professional Web Site URL - 1 point

Next Week:
 * 1) Determine when you can teach with technology. This teaching session needs to be videotaped. Another assignment is a school survey. Determine which school you will be doing this survey on. Details are on Blackboard.
 * 2) Read on how teachers are using iPads in the classroom.