Syllabus

EDEL 11 C FALL 2000

Joyce L. Morris, Ed.D.
The University of Vermont, College of Education and Social Services
Objectives
Syllabus
Requirements
Reading
Date Topic Description
8/28 Introduction Introductions Objectives, syllabus, course requirements, computer hardware, software and network use. E-mail accounts. The Nets Project: Teacher Standards  and Performance profiles-what new teachers need to know about technology.
8/30 Desktop management How to format disks, locate applications, use the control panel, print, and access the university network. Taking digital pictures. Locating your folder and placing your digital picture inside. Resizing your picture in Photoshop. 
9/6 E-mail and word processing Learn all about electronic mail. Use of PINE as a university and universal electronic mail vehicle.Use of address book, distribution lists, messages, personalized signatures. Finding e-mail addresses. Joining a List Serv. Liszt and Tilenet. Basic wordprocessing. Eudora vs. Telnet. An e-mail discussion: the benefits, the problems of e-mail discussions.. 
9/11 Word Processing Plus Word processing: margins, tabs, columns, spellchecker, editing, printing, saving & retrieving files, adding clip art and using draw-on tools to create a variety of documents. 
AppleWorks Tips for Educators, Using ClarisWorks in the Classroom.
9/13 Desktop Publishing Using columns and sections to publish a newsletter. Students use AppleWorks, insert digitized pictures and clip art to produce a newsletter about themselves. See School Newspaper Unit 
The Norfolk Academy Middle School NewsLetter
South Cumberland Elementary School Newspaper
9/18 Design your dream school Using the drawing and painting programs of AppleWorks to create original art depicting your "dream" school. Saving drawn documents and importing them into word processing and other documents. KidPix in the Elementary Classroom
ClarisWorks Tutorial-Paint Program
9/20 Surfing the Net Accessing the Internet, creating and saving bookmarks, understanding URL's, evaluating sites, and exploring the world wide web to locate information.  Using Search Engines effectively to isolate relevant information. Evaluating a search engine.
9/25 Resources on the Net Scavenger hunts, Webquests, and types of telecommunciation projects. Education Resources for future educators.
9/27 Electronic Portfolios What constitutes a portfolio? Looking at some online Portfolios.  What will our sites contain? Storyboarding site. Read article by Helen Barrett: Create Your Own Electronic Portfolio. 
10/2 Designing Web Pages How HTML enables us to publish on the WWW. Designing Web pages: Elements of good design. Form and function. Using Netscape Composer. 
10/4 Publishing on the Net Changing backgrounds, colors, adding pictures and links. Adding scanned and digitized pictures. Using TablesDesign resources.
10/9 Publishing on the Net working with graphics in Photoshop. Photoshop Tips.
10/11 Publishing on the Net working with text in Photoshop
10/16 Debugging Editing pages, problem solving mistakes, preparing for uploading, working on Portfolios 
10/18 Going Public Uploading files and granting permission. Sharing our sites.
10/23 Creating & Searching Databases Developing, sorting and searching databases to arrange and isolate specific data. Databases
10/25 Spreadsheets/ 

Graphs

 Using a spreadsheet program to maintain a gradebook and budget, students take data from a spreadsheet and convert it into line, pie or bar graphs and include these in a wordprocessed document. 
10/30 Riding the Oregon Trail Examination of a simulation program used to stimulate instruction. Working in cooperative groups students will "ride the trail." 
PBS In Search of the Oregon Trail,  Oregon Territory,  Oregon Trail History Library,  Oregon Trail Internet Scavenger Hunt
11/1 Software Examination Students learn to install software and examine a number of programs that have applications in the K-12 classroom. They select one program to review and critique. 
11/6 Software Examination & discussion Continued examination and analysis of educational software. Integration into classroom experiences. 
11/8 Adding to our portfolios Uploading of Software review and other selected class products. Editing our sites. 
11/13 Multimedia in the Classrooms HyperStudio, a multimedia program, will be examined. Student produced stacks will be highlighted. See some student products made in HyperStudio.
11/15 HyperStudio In this first lesson, students will learn how to create text fields, import text documents, and copy and paste text from other documents. How to create backgrounds, import clip art, place a graphic, scan in pictures, and use the drawing tools of Hyperstudio. A quick tutorial to HyperStudio.
11/20 HyperStudio  Students will learn how to place buttons to link cards and stacks together. Students learn how to control the size of HyperStudio stacks. 
11/27 HyperStudio Students learn to put sound, animation, video and New Button Actions into HyperStudio stacks. 
11/29 HyperStudio Group Work Time
12/4 HyperStudio Group Work Time
12/6 Presentations Presentation and sharing of projects, course evaluation. 
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