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TEP 231 New Technologies for Learning
Summer 2001

Class Syllabus

Monday, July 2Introduction: From Surfing to Serving
    What we'll do:
    1. examine a broad range of powerful educational uses of new technologies
    What to do by next class:
    1. each two-person team should find two rank-ordered exemplary personal web sites (a personal web site is a web site created by a person to describe him/herself). Also find five rank-ordered exemplary educational web sites which you might use in your teaching and five rank-ordered exemplary web sites you might want your students to use. Email to me the URLs, short descriptions, and why you think they are exemplary.
    2. Read the Bruce & Levin (1997) paper describing a taxonomy of education uses of technology.
    3. Go through this audio-narrated Powerpoint to hear Chip Bruce's perspective on this taxonomy. (Go to the "Real" web site if you need to download the free version of the Player, called RealPlayer 8 Basic.)
    4. Read the Bruce & Levin (2001 in press) interactive paper "Roles for New Technologies in Language Arts: Inquiry, Communication, Construction, and Expression" (login as "guest" with password "guest").
      Enter at least one comment on at least one part of this "interactive paper". Respond to at least one other person's comment.

Tuesday, July 3The big picture: A taxonomy of educational uses of technology What we'll do:
  1. review your exemplary educational web sites: what makes an exemplary use of new technologies?
  2. exploration of the wide range of educational uses of technology - the Bruce & Levin taxonomy
  3. review the exemplary personal (autobiographical) web sites: what makes an exemplary personal web page
  4. eportfolios on the web
  5. collaborative uses for professional development: TAPPED IN
  6. introduction to C-Base
What to do by next class:
  1. Given the Bruce & Levin taxonomy and the exemplary educational uses the class found, develop at least one exciting new (at least to you) use of technology to accomplish some important educational goal you have. Post the idea in DISCUS in the "Brainstorming" conference.
  2. create or modify your own personal web page, including ePortfolio elements (you can use this template file if you want; if you do, here's a quick guide of how to save and modify it)
  3. log into TAPPED IN, establish an account, and explore it with guest access
  4. read Linda Polin's article (2000) "Creating Space for Professional Conversations: Mentoring Master Teachers Online"

Thursday, July 5Curricular Integration of Technology What we'll do:
  1. conversation with April Maskiewicz, TEP MA 2000 "Meaningful Science: Transforming Knowledge through Real World Connections and Computers"
  2. ePortfolios: uploading your own personal web page to a web server - use this "quick guide to FTP"
  3. Guided tour of TAPPED IN, 7pm-8pm
    Here's a transcript of our guided tour.
What to do by next class:
  1. find an exemplary resource in TAPPED IN and post in C-Base its name, a short description, why you find it exemplary, and where you found it in TAPPED IN
  2. put your personal web page on a web server - use the "Putting your web pages on the TEP server" handout and then put the URL in C-Base
  3. Read Nan Goggin's Designing Information for communication.
  4. Read Michelle Hinn's Alternative Web Design Guide
  5. Skim through the Yale Web Style Guide.

Friday, July 6Instructional Design What we'll do:
  1. review of your exemplary personal web pages: what makes an exemplary personal web page
  2. review your reports on TAPPED IN: online resources for your own professional development and that of others
  3. explore psychological and other design principles
What to do by next class:
  1. Create a new web page containing your major project proposal, and submit the name and the URL to C-Base
  2. Revise your eportfolio, based on the readings and discussion of design. Post the URL in C-Base.
  3. submit to C-Base one or more questions to ask Barbara Miller about the institutional integration of technology

Monday, July 9Institutional Integration of Technology What we'll do:
  1. A conversation with Barbara Miller, Principal, Fuerte Elementary School, TEP MA 1985, and her technology team: Mike Manchee, Technology Coordinator for the school, CholeAnne Dilgard and Stephanie Glass, both fourth grade teachers and Site Lead Technology Teachers for the school.
What to do by next class:
  1. look through the Global Schoolhouse web site, then select a web-based project that you might want to participate in with your class, and enter into C-Base its name and a short description (and, if one exists, the URL)
  2. Read Waugh, Levin, & Smith's paper (1994) "Organizing Electronic Network-Based Instructional Interactions: Successful Strategies and Tactics" and post in C-Base at least one question that you'd like to ask Michael Waugh about educational network-based projects

Tuesday, July 10Web-based Educational Projects What we'll do:
  1. A conversation with Michael Waugh, University of West Georgia (transcript of that conversation)
What to do by next class:
  1. Pick one of the CTER OnLine White Papers to read; post your reactions in DISCUS (what did you like & why? what did you dislike & why? what improvments would you suggest?

Wednesday, July 11Social & Policy Issues concerning Technology: Creating futures that maximize the positives and minimize the negatives What we'll do:
  1. Examine each of the issues addressed by the white papers
What to do by next class:
  1. Create in a progress report of your major project on the web; submit to C-Base the name of your project and the URL to a web page describing your progress so far, what your plans are, and any barriers you've run up against.

Thursday, July 12Research, Development, & Evaluation of Technology: Riding the "trailing edge" What we'll do:
  1. Explore ways to think about research and development of technologies and research on the educational uses of technologies and
What to do by next class:
  1. Read through Margaret Riel's Learning Spaces in the Networld of Tomorrow: Future Learning Spaces: A VIP Experience at MBARI web site
  2. write up a brief "vision" of how education could/should operate in the year 2020 and post it on DISCUS

Friday, July 13Understanding, Care, & Repair of Technology What we'll do:
  1. Review your 2020 visions
  2. Explore ways to approach problems with technology, include diagnosis, treatment, and preventive maintainence
What to do by next class:
  1. Read the Levin & Miyake paper
  2. Prepare short oral presentation and create a web page containing a written report of your major project, and submit the name, a short description, and the URL to C-Base

Monday, July 16Project Presentations & Summary What we'll do:
  1. Make a short (5 minute) presentation of your major project
  2. Turn in a written report of your major project -- it can be the web page that you submitted to C-Base

Last updated: 11 July 2001
Warning: subject to minor changes - check the web page version during each class meeting for the latest version
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