Weekly Lessons

Date	Topic	Description
9/4	Introduction:   Do computers belong in classrooms?     Desktop management	Objectives, course requirements, computer hardware, software and network use will be discussed. Desktop design and protocols will be demonstrated and explored. Discussion of issues surrounding the use of computers in education. Distribution of reading and e-talk discussion. How to use computers to format disks, locate applications,use the control panel, print and access the university network. Getting an E-mail account.
9/11	E-mail   Word Processing     Word Processing Plus	Use of PINE as a university and universal electronic mail vehicle.Use of address book, distribution lists, compose messages, forward mail, delete messages, find e-mail addresses. Word processing techniques on ClarisWorks 4.0. This includes the use of margins, tabs, columns, spellchecker, cut & paste, printing, saving & retrieving files. Adding clip art and use of the draw-on features of ClarisWorks to produce charts, diagrams, worksheets, maps, and reports.
9/18	Working with Grapics Design your dream classroom	How to use the drawing and painting programs of Clarisworks to create original art and import these into word processing and other documents. Use of a digital camera and scanner.
9/25	DeskTop Publishing	Using the word processing program of ClarisWorks, students will learn how to work with columns, insert text and pictures to create a newsletter.
10/2	Telecommunications	Telecommunications projects and procedures will be introduced that provide an opportunity to extend classroom boundaries. Students will learn how to access LUIS., the library research system. How to use the Internet to locate resources and communicate with others: Needle in a Cyberstack
10/9	Surfing the Net	Accessing the Internet, performing searches, saving bookmarks and exploring the world wide web to locate information and evaluating resources.
10/16	Creating & Searching Databases   Spreadsheets & Graphs	Developing, sorting and searching databases to arrange and isolate specific data. Using the spreadsheet program of Clarisworks to maintain a gradebook and budget. Learn how to take data from a spreadsheet and convert it into line, pie, or bar graphs and how to include these in a wordprocessed document.
10/23	Software examination	Students will have a chance to look at a number of programs that have applications in the K-12 classroom. They will select one program to review and critique.
10/30	Software Examination, Integration in curriculum and sharing	Continued examination and analysis of educational software. Software feedback and use of software with students in a classroom environment.
11/13	Publishing on the Internet	The basics of HTML: text and paragraph formatting, lists, adding pictures and links.
11/20	Publishing	Use of tables, formatting colors and backgrounds. Use of Claris Homepage
12/4	Publishing	Uploading files to the WWW
12/11	Publishing	Students will edit and make final corrections on sites
12/18	Publishing	Presentation of project