EDU 314 Teaching With Computers in 
Elementary and Secondary Schools

Fall, 2005    

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Week 1 08/29 Introduction

Week 2 09/05 (No class) Resume

Week 3 09/12  Basis of Web Design and Publishing

Week 4 09/19 (Raquette Lake Field Trip) Web Design - Sharpening your Web Design Skills

Week 5 09/26  Web Design - Aesthetics and Tables

Week 6 10/03  Web Design - Trouble-shooting

Week 7 10/10 Midterm Evaluation

Week 8 10/17  ePortfolio Peer Review

  • Computer skills sharing: you can share a cool website, a small trick (like a right click), 
    or a big trick (like screen shots/print screen), or anything you discovered.  

  • Basics of Windows Operating System: a revisit. 

  • ePortfolio Peer Review. Instructions here

  • HW: Publish ePortfolio Peer Review page

Week 9 10/24 PowerPoint

  • Understanding the educational applications of PowerPoint; rationale and ideas for use. Click here.

  • Your PowerPoint Project. Instructions

  • PowerPoint Pointers: step-by-step manual for preview and review. In PDF 

  • HW: Work on your PowerPoint Project.

Week 10 10/31 WebQuest - Concepts

  • WebQuest - definitions and rationale. Click here

  • Teamwork: Design a WebQuest that you can use in your own classroom teaching. Here are the Guidelines for your WebQuest Project.
    Phase I:
    Set up the frame of your WebQuest website; have a preliminary plan for your WebQuest project-decide your project title and the content.

  • HW: Work on your WebQuest project.

  • Due: Link/Publish your PowerPoint project.

Week 11 11/07 Web Quest - Develop a Project

  • WebQuest - Develop your WebQuest project

  • Sharpening your web design techniques: 1) Using tables for design; 2) Using anchors. How to Make Anchors.
    Phase II
    : Develop your WebQuest website: work both on content and on the technical part - the web design. Refer to the Guidelines for your WebQuest Project 

  • HW: Work on your ePortfolio and your WebQuest project

  • Due: Link/Publish Educational Links Page

Week 12 11/14 Web Quest - Sharing

  • WebQuest - Wrap up and and publish your WebQuest Project. 

  • Phase III: Linking, Publishing and Sharing. Three steps: 
    1) Link your WebQuest Project to your ePortfolio;
    2) Publish the the project; and 
    3) S
    hare with the whole class your WebQuest Project.  Sharing Pointers.

  • HW: Setting up the Skeleton of Your Other Course Projects. Instructions here.

  • Due: Link/Publish whole WebQuest Project (Publication to individual's website is extended to Nov.23).

 Week 13 11/21 Reflections on the on the Learning Process of the EDU314 Course 

  • HW: Work on Your Course Reflections Project. 

  • Due: Link/Publish Other Course Projects.

Week 14  11/28 Wrap up and Trouble-shooting

Week 15 12/05 Spice it up!

  • Make sure you have a brief introduction of summary to each of your EDU314 Technology Projects - it can be one or a couple of sentences or a paragraph. See some samples (go to their professional pages-and then technology pages) from your peers of previous technology classes. 

  • Revisit the Basic Requirements for Your ePortfolio (updated). Download

Week 16 & 17 12/12; 12/19 Sharing - Final Presentation 


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Dr. Shufang Shi