Educational Technology 1 – Educ 4038
July 30, 2009
Class 7 - 11 (3 Hours)

Dr. Diane P. Janes – Diane_Janes@cbu.ca – Office hours by appointment – Phone: 563-1236

Reminder: Classes 9 and 10 (August 6 and 11th will be held online on our blogs and not F2F); Class 11 will be held at my home; I will supply the address and directions on Aug 4th.

Reminder : Assessment (TERM)
• Participation (online blogging and in class discussion) – 20%
• Lesson Plan creation x 3 – 30%
• Presentation to class (on one of the lesson plans and the innovative use of technology to teach it) – 25%
• E-portfolio due at the end of term – 25%

We need to set up a presentation schedule…Since Brooks is away for August 6-11 we can do the presentations at my house on the 13th; they will be a half an hour each leaving us plenty of time for our meal. I have HS internet which you can access if you need to. Let me know if you need anything specific for the presentation that you cannot bring yourself. ** Note that any one of the lesson plans, of the 3 you create can be used for the presentation.

Readings (to the remaining classes in the term)

From Roblyer, M.D and Doering, A.H (2009). Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching (5th Ed). Allyn & Bacon. **there are copies in the bookstore for sale and one copy in the library on reserve (with a 24 hour release)


Read and blog your comments (based on what you have learned so far) on the following chapters:

Chapter 1 Educational Technology in Context – the big picture

Chapter 2 Theory and Practice – foundations for effective technology integration

Activity - reading

Each of you chose one of the following – Chapters 4, 5 or 6 and post to your blog, a summary of the key points made in the chapter so that your classmates have a full understanding of the issues arising from the chapters.

Lesson Plan Activity 2
In Part 4 of the Text, Chapters 9 - 15 are divided by the teachable subject area. Choose YOUR teachable subject area (and the Chapter that works with it), read it and blog on it; then choose a lesson plan that does not currently have technology integrated (either found on the net or designed by you), and using the text as a guide, produce a lesson plan that integrates technology into the subject area. Make sure your lesson plan has an accompanying document of a page or two that states the rationale for why you used that particular technology in your class/lesson.

E-portfolio Readings and ideas

Overview of the Assignment:

To get you started (or to have you continue your work) on your e-portfolio, I have a few readings/URLS for you to review…

Electronic portfolios are selective and purposeful collections of student work made available on the WWW. Portfolios focus on the students' reflections on their own work. They are records of learning, growth, and change. They provide meaningful documentation of your abilities. Electronic portfolios provide information to you and me about what you have learned or are able to do. They represent a learning history. Basically, this is your learning history.
You may construct portfolios in literacy and writing, science, math, the arts, or any other subject area in the curriculum. Portfolios may also be more inclusive, containing samples of work across curricular areas. The choice is up to you.

Your portfolio should include but not be limited to, information you have discovered while taking this course. This might cover:

• Web-sites you have discovered that exemplify your content area, offer good ideas with respect to MI or constructivist learning theory, showcase other ideas you’d like to keep note of.
• Comments or reflections on books or articles you are reading (with complete bibliographical information included) on topics in the course
• Reflection on teaching using technology in your content area; this may take the form of a blog or podcast if you want to experiment.
• Lesson ideas that you have used or plan to try
• Teaching ideas — things that have worked in your classroom
• Samples of technology used in lessons you have created
• Audio/video/multimedia/computer-based materials you have found to be useful in your teaching
• Conferences, workshops, professional development you attended and what you took from the experiences (like meeting with Dr. Bates)
• Other items/ideas you deem important to your learning in this course

Portfolios should be organized to reflect an accurate picture of your development throughout the course. Your portfolio can include, but not be limited to:

• a table of contents,
• the date of the work,
• description of the task/artifact, and
• your reflection on the entry

The emphasis is not to be on collecting "best work" when creating your portfolio. Instead, a wide range of work samples representative of your work will allow the instructor to examine progress.
Process portfolios demonstrate student work throughout a learning task. At the beginning of the learning task you should answer questions such as:

• What do I plan to accomplish with this task?
• How I plan to get there
• My strategies for accomplishing this task

As you progress, you may include interim evidence and notes on progress. Finally, when you complete the task, you need to summarize what went into the learning task. Work samples, plans, outlines, final products and even unfinished products or items from other courses or employment/volunteer activities might be included in the portfolio.

Marking Criteria

This Rubric will be used as the marking criteria for the portfolios.

Exceptional: 23-25/25
Thorough: 19-22/25
Adequate: 15-18/25
Inadequate: 0-15/25

Rubric layout to follow.

Choose two of the following articles and post a critique for each on your blog:

Preparing a teaching portfolio: http://www.umass.edu/cft/publications/teaching%20portfolio.pdf Note: while directed at university level teaching, this article has a lot to offer the classroom teacher.

Electronic Portfolios—Students, Teachers, and Life Long Learners: http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic82.htm

Creating an Electronic Portfolio – A Webquest: http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/fellows/Spencer/webquest/lasindex.html Note: we will be looking at webquests in the fall, but this is an example of using one to create a Portfolio.

Read both of the following and comment on them both in your blog:

Electronic Portfolios in the K-12 Classroom. (2002). Education World. Online at: http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech111.shtml

Balancing 2 Faces of ePortfolios. Helen Barrett (2009). http://electronicportfolios.com/balance/index.html

Examples of E-Portfolios

Here are some examples of various e-portfolios both teachers and students portfolios. Check them out. Pick two examples within one of the links and blog about it.

http://www.coe.iup.edu/njyost/portfolios/samples.html
http://www.usd.edu/tlc/eportfolio/class/examples.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20050428073337/faculty.coehd.utsa.edu/pmcgee/portfolios.htm
http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org

Activity Lesson Plan 3

Go to http://www.internet4classrooms.com/integ_tech_lessons.htm Choose two very different lesson plans and post the urls to your blog. Answer these questions - Indicate why you chose them and how they could be used in your future classrooms. What are they trying to teach? Why did they appeal to you? What issues might arise from using this in the classroom, if any? What would you as a teacher need to have in advance or prepared to undertake these lessons?

Review Dr. Moersch's Level of Technology Implementation Framework designed to accurately measure authentic classroom technology use. The LoTi Framework focuses on the use of technology as a tool within the context of student based instruction with a constant emphasis on higher order thinking: http://www.loticonnection.com/lotilevels.html

Choose a third lesson plan from the integrating technology link above. Assess the level of the lesson plan and measure its ‘authentic classroom technology’ use…why have you placed in on the scale where you did. Blog the following questions along with your assessment: What is included in the lesson plan that has it fall on this level…what about the lesson plan is not included to have it fall on this level. How would you adjust the lesson plan to have it higher on the scale…or if more appropriate, how would you lower/remove technology components to have it lower on the scale? What is your opinion of the framework? Does it work for your decision making vis a vis integrating technology? Have you found another that works better? If yes, share it in the blog. If no, look for one to share on your blog.

Class Presentation Rubric to follow