Introduction - class information forms

What is technology? How do you view technology's role in the science classroom?

• List as many items in the classroom that are applications of technology.
• List 5 technology items that you either couldn't live without or you would have a very hard time living without.

Reflective Journal 1 due by noon January 21: "Based on your current experience, describe some ways current technologies will alter the way you expect to teach science compared with the way you were taught science in secondary school?" Post your response to the blog.

Read the following article for next time and identify two points of interest for you from each one.

• the following sections from Learning with Technology: Evidence that technology can, and does, support learning (Marshall, 2002):
  • Background
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Highlights in the Evolution of Educational Technology

Discuss reading assignment

For your information - Issues Related to Using Technology in Science Classrooms (the following are for your reference only and aren't required reading):

National Science Education Standards (NRC, 1996)

Benchmarks for Scientific Literacy (AAAS, 1993)

Existing Conditions of the Use of Technology in Science Classrooms (NCES)

• Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms: 1994-2002
• Computer and Internet Use by Children and Adolescents in 2001
• UNI Preservice Teacher Technology Competencies

Read the following articles for next time and identify two points of interest for you on each one. Post your responses to the blog before our next class meeting.

• the following sections from Learning with Technology: Evidence that technology can, and does, support learning (Marshall, 2002):
  • The Process of Learning: A Learning Primer
  • Research-Based Evidence: Learning with Educational Technology
• Pages 1-8 of Understanding The New Digital Landscape, Kids & the New "Digital Divide"

Jan 24

• Discuss reading assignment
• Can Technology Exploit Our Many Ways of Knowing? article by Howard Gardner
• Mulitiple Intelligences Map
• Technology and Mulitple Intelligences
• Matching Multiple Intelligences with Technology

Using Inspiration for Graphical Organizing in the Science Classroom download free trial version

• The Concept-Mapping Classroom (Bafile, 2003)
• The Power of Visual Learning
• Visual Learning Techniques: webs, idea maps, concept maps
• Curriculum integration: select a grade and subject area to find practical examples, lesson plans, and real-life classroom stories.

Gliffy - Draw & Share Diagrams on the Web

Complete the Multiple Intelligence Inventory and print your results to bring to class next time

Using Inspiration - due Feb 5

Discuss multiple intelligence results

Intro to probeware - motion probe

Due: Multiple Intelligence Inventory

finish sharing Inspiration creations

Using your Inspiration creation in your digital portfolio

Generation Gap? 'Online Gap' Widens Divide Between Parents and Children

iSafe Assignment

View the Teacher Tools @ 2Learn web site to explore ways that teachers can use spreadsheets as a tool to support student learning. Click on the link to Spreadsheet Tools, then on Exemplars for a variety of activities and lesson plans involving spreadsheets.

Follow the links below to explore ways that teachers are using spreadsheets as learning tools with their students.

• Using Spreadsheets in K - 12 Classrooms
• School Spreadsheet Safari
• Spreadsheet Activities for the Classroom
• Microsoft Excel Modules
• Integrating Spreadsheets in the Classroom
• Tony Vincent's Blog - Tiny Spreadsheets

Using Microsoft Excel

• Excel Tutorial
• Excel 2000 Tutorial

FYI Reading Material

• School web access falls short of kids' expectations (Pierce, 2004, eSchool News)
• Born to be Wired: The Role of New Media for a Digital Generation (2003)

Due: Professional Digital Portfolio Home Page and Description (email URL to Mr. Spurr)

Reflective Journal 2 due by noon Feb 18: "If you could wave technology's wand, what's the first thing you'd change about the way education works?" Post your response on the Blog.

Read "A New Model for Education"(Rhoton & Bowers, 1997) and write a Reaction Paper as described on the Assignments page. due Feb 19

Microsoft Excel Gradebook Assignment due Feb 26

Discuss Reaction Papers and iSafe Assignment

An example of calculating curved test grades using Excel

USA Today article: "Posting kids' grades on the Net just asks for trouble" (Welsh, 2000) handout

Posting Students' Grades Online Keeps Parents in Touch and Kids on Their Toes! (Stelle-Carlin, 2000)

Teachers strike back at students' online pranks

PowerSchool demonstration

Microsoft Excel Gradebook Assignment

Grading Software Assignment

• MicroGrade - Demo version (download the Higher Ed version)
• Micrograde Assignment (PDF)

More with Probeware and curriculum for the science classroom

Vernier's Web site

Online portfolio checkup

Article Discussion: Students Rebel Against Database Designed to Thwart Plagiarists

CBL/MBL Lab Experiment instructions

Reference Materials...

• Exploring the Internet as an Instructional Resource and Teaching Tool in Science Classrooms.
  • Search Techniques
    • Googling to the Max: Hands-on Exercises
    • Google Web Search Features
    • Beyond Google
    • Web site evaluation criteria
    • The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
    • New search technologies - Better search results than Google? (Kirkpatrick, 2003)
      • Vivisimo
      • Grokker
      • Visual Thesaurus
  • What makes a site good or bad?
    • How to Tell if You Are Looking at a Great Web Site
    • Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet
    • Web Page Evaulation Checklist
  • Examples of the Web as an Instructional Resource and Teaching Tool
    • facts - Daily online science-related resources
    • virtual field trips - virtual science field trips
    • online simulations
      • Virtual Courseware (Earth Science)
      • AJJAR (astronomy)
      • Virtual Pig Dissection
    • Assessment - QuizStar
• Copyright and the Internet
  • Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia
  • The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use
  • Copyright 101 for Educators
• Links to useful science-related Web sites
  • Blue Web'n Science Links
  • Cornell Math and Science Gateway
  • Frank Potter's Science Gems
  • Educational REALMS
  • ScienceMaster
  • The Education Index
  • Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Science, Computing, and Technology
  • Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Math and Science Education
  • Bad Science
  • Science Links Pages at the Iowa Science Teachers Web Site

Evaluating Educational Technology Resources

• Sample Software and Web Site Evaluation Forms from National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Teachers - Preparing Teachers to Use Technology
• Selecting Computer-Based High School Science Curricula
• Instructional Technology Evaluation Checklist

Selection and Evaluation of Instructional Resources assignment see assignment page - due Apr 3

CBL/MBL Lab Experiment due Apr 29 Grading Rubric

Multimedia Exploration

TeacherTube

www.UnitedStreaming.com

Instructions for creating a login

Using PowerPoint as a Teaching Tool

Example of a simple earth science PowerPoint on the rock cycle

• Introduction to PowerPoint 2007
• Don't Hate PowerPoint; Hate the PowerPointers
• Presentation Tips - Garr Reynolds
• The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
• How to Make Good Presentations
• Quick PowerPoint Tips
• 8 Mistakes When Creating PowerPoint Presentations
• Scoring PowerPoints

Teaching a Science Concept using PowerPoint - due Apr 22

Share Instructional Resources with the Class

Instructional Technologies Purchase Order assignment

Virginia 1st state to require Internet safety lessons

Digital Memories, Piling Up, May Prove Fleeting

The Digital Dark Age

The Digital Ice Age

Instructional Technologies Purchase Order - due May 1

Google Documents

Google Docs for Educators

Google Docs in Plain English
YouTube video that explains the concept behind Google docs.

Finish sharing PowerPoint Presentations with class

Finishing PowerPoints

Color Wheel

Due: CBL/MBL Lab Experiment

Creating a Curriculum Web site

Due: Professional Digital Portfolio - Email your site URL to Mr. Spurr when it is ready to be scored.

Final Exam due before the end of the day