Null Winter 2013

Ed 377: Technology in Education for Secondary Educators

Note: Information may be subject to change! 9/7/13 version Instructor: Suzie Null Class Times: MW 10:10-11:05 Classroom: EBH 034 Office Phone: 970-247-7671 Home Phone: 970-403-1189 Office: EBH 258 email: null_s@fortlewis.edu Office Hours: MW 11:10-12:10, MWF 1:20-3:30, and by appointment Please note that office hours might vary somewhat due to meetings and appointments. Preferred Contact Methods: 1) I strongly prefer email. I am pretty good about responding quickly, but it might sometimes take up to 48 hours if I am incredibly busy or not home. 2) Also feel free to call either the office number or home number if you have questions. Please use the home number between 9:00 am and 11:00 pm. Last day to drop the course without a recorded grade: Tuesday, September 11. Students can withdraw with a W through April 1 Required texts: Manning, S. & Johnson, K. E. (2011). The technology toolbelt for teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Other materials will be provided via Edmodo. Other required materials: 1. You MUST have access to a computer AND the internet outside of class. If you dont have a computer and internet access, or if you only have dial-up internet that is very slow, plan time to use the campus computer labs. 2. Bring earphones or headphones to class each day. Some programs require the use of earphones.

3. Have a folder for storing progress reports and feedback on your assignments I anticipate providing hard copies of rubrics to give you feedback for the work you submit on your Weebly site.

Course Description:
This course requires demonstration of proficiency with professional productivity tools including word processing, spreadsheet, database and graphics. Elective workshops on each topic are conducted. This course includes examples of instructional technology and emerging technologies. Students demonstrating required proficiencies are awarded a certificate. Goals for this Course: Students will explore and apply the technologies that many schools currently expect teachers to use. Each student will also become a specialist an additional technologies of her/his choosing and will share their specialty with the class. In the process, students will explore what it means to integrate 21st century literacy skills into their teaching practice, they will become critical thinkers about how to use technology meaningfully when they teach, and they will gain the foundation to become lifelong learners of emerging classroom technologies. Essential Questions: What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century? How can we use technology to share content with students, encourage student interaction, and help students create and share information? What existing technologies can help students reach learning objectives? What you will leave with at the end of the semester: An ability to use several of the technologies that you may need to know when you teach. A plan for using several types of technology to enrich a unit in your content area and/or grade level. Expertise in one or more additional technologies of your choice, which you will be able to both apply in your own teaching and teach to your colleagues.

Grading
Assignment Course attendance, timeliness, and class participation Preparation: Graded postings on the Ed. 377 Edmodo (or other course sites), reading questions, other homework Sharing Content With Students: Weebly website; Edmodo site; lesson using smartboard, powerpoint, & multimedia; apps; gradebook; Camtasia screencast Fostering student interaction: group project on creating a group assignment; Plan for having students create their own content using film techniques, Camtasia/Jing, or Coachs Eye. Final Project choose one new technology and demo it to the class Final response to student projects Percentage of Grade 10% 10% 40%

10% 10% 15% 5%

Grade Scale: 93%-100% = A 90%-92.9% = A87%-89.9% = B+ 83%-86.9% = B 80%-82.9% = B77%-79.9% = C+ 73%-76.9% = C 70%-72.9% = C67%-69.9% = D+ 63%-66.9% = D 60%-62.9% = D0%-59.9% = F

Course Policies:
Attendance You are preparing for a profession in which you MUST be reliable in being at work regularly, on time, and well-prepared. Therefore, 10 participation points for

attendance, timelinesss, reading, and participation will be awarded for each class session. Sometimes other assignments will be done and collected during class periods as well. Due to the hands-on nature of the course, points given for attendance cannot be made up. 8 absences will result in automatic failure of the class. This is because people who are absent more than 20% of the time usually have too much trouble keeping up in the course. I will consider excusing an absence if the student provides documentation that s/he was absent for one of the following reasons: Documented illness Death in the family Severe accident Other major emergency (NOT my car wouldnt start, my dog puked, and I was tired from studying all night for another class). Tardies Class begins at the designated time. Teachers cannot be late to class it is a legal supervision issue. Tardies are defined as not being in class at the time when class starts. Each tardy results in a 70% maximum participation grade for that days class. Also, I usually go over announcements, due dates, and other logistical information at the beginning of the class and people who miss this often have trouble keeping up. Students are generally expected to be able to stay in the class for the duration of the class time. Students who frequently leave may lose participation points. If there is a medical or other reason why you need to miss classes, be late to classes, or frequently leave classes, please bring documentation from a doctor or other source (see Contingency Plans). Advised notebook organization: Keep a notebook with sections on: 1. Assignments in progress 2. Class handouts 3. Returned and graded assignments (this helps when there is an error in record keeping) 4. Progress reports and other course records 5. Field Study activities & field study log 6. Blank paper Advised digital organization: See the How to turn in an assignment on Edmodo that will be given out in class.

Bringing Children to Class: In general, parents will need to arrange for their children to have care outside of class. If there is a child-care emergency, please ask for my permission in advance. I will usually allow a persons child to attend class once or twice as long as the following conditions are met: 1) The child does not have a contagious illness (a doctors note may be required to ensure this if the child is sick). 2) The child is able to sit quietly for the duration of the class and is not a disruption to other students. Getting Missed Work: Copies of powerpoints and course handouts will be available on Moodle or another course management system, and will usually be posted by the next day. A few handouts are only available as hard copies and you will need to see me to get copies of those. You will be responsible for checking your Moodle account and reading the powerpoint and handouts for any day that you missed. You will need to see me for any paper copies you didnt receive. Turning in Work: Most assignments will be due via Edmodo, but some may be due as print copies or on DVDs (for films). The required method for turning in an assignment will be given with the assignment. Being able to post work online, bring printed copies, and use media such as film and DVDs is an expectation for this class, as is being able to access the required texts and bring other necessary materials. This means that you will need to have access to a working printer, paper, and ink cartridges, or it means you need to make sure there is money in your printing account at FLC BEFORE the assignment is due. All assignments submitted via Edmodo must be labeled in the following form: Lastname_assignment title_date. If your attachments arent labeled clearly, I will follow the policies outlined below in Unidentified work. See How to turn in an assignment on Edmodo for more information. Turning in Work When You are Absent: If you miss a deadline because you were not in class, you can still post the assignment on Edmodo, but the email must be time-stamped by the beginning of the class period in order for you to receive credit. All assignments posted to Edmodo must be labeled in the following form: Lastname_assignment title_date. Late Work: Please complete assignments by the day they are due, because we will often be using or discussing what we did during class. For late assignments, everyone will get two Give me a break coupons. Each coupon will allow students to turn in all assignments due that day (not a presentation)

up to a week after the due date. When you submit late work, you must fill out the coupon and attach the coupon to the front of your assignment when you turn it in, so that I know to accept it. Coupons are limited to two per person, which means that you cannot give them to other students in the class. Each coupon is worth five points of extra credit at the end of the term. Give me a break coupons cannot be used for lesson plan presentations or other class verbal presentation assignments. With the exception of up to two assignments with a Give me a break coupon attached, I will not accept late assignments except possibly through prior arrangement, or in order to accommodate a DOCUMENTED illness or problem (see Contingency Plans). Unidentified work (Work with no name) All submitted work must be identified with your name. If you submit your work via Edmodo, email or another digital source, it must be identified BOTH by labeling the emailed attachment with LastName_AssignmentTitle_Date, AND with your name on the actual document. All unidentified hard copies of students work will be kept in a box in my office. If you think you did not receive a grade because you might have forgotten to put your name on your paper, you will need to make an appointment to come to my office and see if your work is in the box. Work that is submitted via Edmodo or email that is not labeled both on the document AND on the attachment will be checked for completion and then bounced back with a request to label the attachment correctly. All work that must be identified and re-submitted will lose 5% credit. Revisions and Extra Credit: For the sake of fairness, I do not allow students who are behind to do extra credit or make-up work to make up assignments after the due date. But keep an eye out for opportunities extended to the whole class! On Gadgets: You are preparing for a profession in which you will need to be fully present when you are in class with your students. Please turn off your cell phone, smartphone, MP3 music player, etc., before you come into class. Please keep it put away when you are in class no texting, surfing, checking messages, games, headphones, etc. If you bring a laptop or tablet, use it at appropriate times for course assignments, but dont surf the internet or multitask by doing other activities/work. It distracts all of us if I have to stop the lesson to ask you to turn phones off or re-focus, and I do not want to be put in the awkward position of asking

chronic gadget users to choose between using the gadget or staying in class. Inappropriate use of phones, laptops, and other gadgets will also result in a loss of participation points. Disability accommodations: Students with disabilities who require accommodations to fully participate in course activities or meet course requirements must register with Disability Services in 280 Noble Hall (970-247-7459). If you qualify for services, please bring your letter of accommodations to Dian Jenkins in Disability Services, and bring the necessary documentation from that department to me. Please see me if you need help with this. Academic Integrity: Candidates of the Teacher Education Program are required to adhere to professional standards and ethics in their academic work and field study experience. Professional behaviors and actions include but are not limited to the following examples: Candidates academic work must reflect integrity and honesty (see Academic Honesty below). Candidates are expected to come to all classes and school placements in a physical and mental state that allows them to participate. Please remember that not all medications are appropriate to take before an academic course or a practicum in a school. Candidates should practice collegial and professional communication during their classes and placements (i.e. using appropriate language, listening to and valuing other points of view, no put-downs, gossiping, etc.) Particularly during field studies, candidates are expected to dress appropriately for the professional roles of the teachers they are becoming. When you are in a school, dress as well or better than the teachers you are working with. The candidates field study logs must be an accurate, valid, and concise representation of the time spent participating in field study experience.

Academic Honesty: Plagiarism is defined as using other peoples words or ideas without citing them as a source. Please remember that among other things, plagiarism includes using fragments from other works, replacing words with their synonyms, calling other teachers lesson plan ideas your own, and using images, drawings, logos, styles, designs, or any other form of intellectual property without citation. Plagiarism can also involve inappropriate collaboration, such as turning in work that uses words, ideas, images, etc. that are taken from classmates without citation when the assignment calls for individual work. At the college level, plagiarism can have serious consequences, including course failure or expulsion from the school. In this course, the first plagiarized student work will receive a failing grade for the assignment. The second will result in failure of the course. Any plagiarized assignment will be reported to the FLC Office of Academic Affairs, which may consider a range of consequences including failure of the class and

disciplinary hearings within FLC. If a students assignment seems to have similarities to another work that most likely go beyond coincidence, I will ask the student to discuss her/his work with me, and all or part of the grade may be based on this oral defense. There are easy ways to avoid plagiarism: 1) For work such as reading questions, do your own work. Do not loan it to other people, let them look at it, or leave it in a public place. 2) When youre writing a paper or a lesson plan, cite your sources! Include footnote or parenthetical and works cited list citations for anything you use from anywhere else, including images, methods, ideas, phrases, and quotations. Teaching is a collaborative profession, and it is common to borrow methods, ideas, and materials from other teachers. But document when you borrowed something and where you borrowed it from. And clearly, a lesson plan that is entirely borrowed from another source wont be acceptable if a lesson plan communicating YOUR ideas was required by the assignment. If you need help learning how to cite sources, please come get help from me. Allergy request: I have a severe allergy to fish. Its a contact allergy, which means the reaction happens if fish is even in the room or nearby! So please do not bring anything with fish in your breakfast/lunch if you want to eat it in class. OK fish: shellfish (shrimp, crab, lobster, scallops, etc) and tuna. Not OK fish: anything else, particularly salmon and trout. This means no sushi (except vegetarian), lox, fish sticks, salmon burgers, salmon chunks in a salad, trout fillets from your fishing trip. . . you get the idea. I know its weird, and sometimes a pain, and I really appreciate your help. Contingency Plans: If you experience or anticipate any emergency during the term that will affect your course work or attendance, please arrange a personal conference with me so that we can determine necessary accommodations. Please bring collaborating documentation, such as a note from your doctor, to provide evidence of your extenuating circumstances. If you are having personal problems with me, the course, other people in the course, or life problems that affect your course work, please dont suffer in silence. Be a proactive communicator and come discuss the issue with me so that we can make the course a positive learning experience for you. If you are unable to discuss the issue with me, you can contact Richard Fulton, the Teacher Education Department Chair, at 970-247- 7150 or fulton_r@fortlewis.edu