UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

DR. ARLYS E. PETERSON - ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE CLASSROOM

Summer: 2008
Class Time: M-TH 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Office Hours: 8-9:00 AM & 3 - 4:00 PM

 

Google Page Creator	Digital Pencil - Podcasting	Digital Pencil - Blogging	Digital Pencil - Vlogging
Digital Pencil - RSS	Digital Pencil - Collaborating	Digital Pencil - Wikis	Digital Pencil Socializing
WIKI Sites	Web 2.0 PowerPoint

South Dakota Schools on the Web	Teacher Applebee Web Page
Principal Jones Web Page	Palos Verdes K-12 Web Pages
School Administrative Web Page	Wekiva Elementary School

Free Midis

Picture Java Effects
 

ABC Giant!	Art Today ClipArt
Aaddzz - Free Counters	Awesome Clipart for Kids
Animation Factory	Awesome Clipart for Educators
Animal Clipart	Animation Jungle
Animations	Absolute Clipart
Brainy Betty Icons	Background and Alphabets
Background Library	Brainy Betty Icons
Backgrounds Giant	**Bell and Whistles
Background Paradise

Classroom Clipart	Clip Art Connection
Clip Art Gallery	Clipart Graphics Images and Sites
Clip Art Links	Creating Thumbnails
ClipArt 101	Clip Art for Your Projects
Curriculum Specific Clip Art	Clipart for Teachers
**CoolArchive	**Clipart for Busy Teachers

Ditto	Educational Clip Art
Free Graphics for Teachers	Free Clipart Island
Free Education Graphics	FreeFoto
FreeGraphics	Graphics by 4YEO
Graphic Resources

Multimedia	Mega Web Tools
Microsoft Design Gallery	Music Images
Pics4Learning	Patriotic Backgrounds
Picture Collection Online	Places to Find Graphics on the Web

ReallyBig	Resources for Web Development
School Related Backgrounds and ClipArt	School Clip Art
School Image Gallery	Sound America
School-Clip-Art	School Icon Club

Too Cool Animations	Top 100 Audio Sites
Teddy Bear Clock	Teacher Files Educational Clipart
Textured Backgrounds

U-Haul SuperGraphics	UWEC WebDev Tool
Web Calendar Software	Web page Construction Links
Web Resources	Web Site Management Tools
Web Site Multimedia Goodies	Web Site Tools
Yahoo Web Design Sites	Visual Resources Photos & Clip Art
Web Graphics	Web Resources

SMARTBOARD TECHNOLOGY

SMART Board Tutorial Videos

Smart Technologies

Educator Resources

SmartBoard Tips

ACTIVboard video

Smart Products Tours

Senteo - view demo

SmartBoard 600i - view demo

Airline Wireless Slate

Level of User

SMART Board Sites - Peterson Web Site

Active Learning on the World Wide Web	North Central Regional Ed Lab (NCREL)
All About the Internet	North Central Regional Tech Ed (NCRTEC)
Education & Technology Publications	Teacher Magazines
edutopia - George Lucas Foundation	**Working the Web for Education
Electronic School	Technology Articles
FNO, Educational Technology Journal	Technology in Education - 180 Ideas
**Innovating in Education	Tech•Learning Articles
Internet Literacy	T.H.E Journal
Search Engines - Article	What's on the Web?
Meridian: A Middle School Technologies Journal

CLICKABLE WORKSHEETS

Simple Machines	Clickable Worksheets
Geometry Clickable Worksheet	Algebra Clickable Worksheet

Course Description

This course will give students experience in exploring and evaluating education sites on the Internet. Students will learn to create their own educational web page using Microsoft FrontPage.

Prerequisites: None

Recommended FrontPage manual: Teach Yourself Visually FrontPage by Ruth Maran. IDG Books Worldwide
(Not required)

Instructional Methods: Lecture, Discussions, Hands-on Projects

Knowledge Base:

Within the model of the teacher as developing professional, this class will fulfill the requirements of specialty knowledge and professional knowledge in the area of integrating technology into school curriculums. The teacher as a cognitive mediator, communicator, researcher, and evaluator will be considered in the content of this course. As cognitive mediator, the developing professional will be able to help students become independent learners who construct meaning by combining new information with their own background knowledge. As communicator, the developing professional is skilled in modes of communication that will enable effective communication and collaboration with other educators, parents, and families. As researcher, the developing professional will be able to improve educational practices within the school setting, using an inquiry approach to serve students more effectively. As evaluator, the developing professional will be able to maximize students' learning by using a full range of formal and informal information-gathering processes in order to respond appropriately to student individual differences.

Professional Education Requirements

This class was designed to show alignment with the USF School of Education's "Teacher as Developing Professional" Curriculum Model and the South Dakota Professional Education Requirements -SDPER24:16:08:36 - K-12 Educational Technology which includes:

1) Demonstrating knowledge of basic computer technologies and networking concepts, terminology tools and applications;

2) Developing skills with current productivity and multimedia tools for education; and

3) Demonstrating competencies with integrating educational technology to support teaching and learning.

Course Objectives:

Cognitive Mediator:

• Students will be able to create their own personal educational web page.

• Students will be able to use their web page with the Internet sites as an aid in showing teachers how to use it as a source of materials for professional development, student sites, and teacher sites in their area of teaching.

Communicator:

• Students will develop a web page with information and activities for the classes they teach and for educational leadership issues.

Researcher:

• Students will use the Internet to identify and select education sites for their web page.

• Students will use the Internet to find research on using the Internet in the classroom and will write a critique on their findings.

• Students will use the Internet to find research on using WebQuests in the classroom and will write a critique on their findings.

• Students will use the Internet to research topics on educational leadership issues in technology and complete a scavenger hunt for teachers.

• Students will use the Internet to research topics in their area of teaching and complete a nine-frame clickable worksheet for students.

Evaluator:

•Students will locate and evaluate student sites, teacher sites, professional development sites, and other educational sites on the Internet.

Assessment:

Cognitive Mediator

•Objective 1 will be assessed with a checklist of required items on the student's web page.

•Objective 2 will be assessed with completion of a web page for school leadership.

Communicator

•Objective 1 will be assessed with a checklist of required items on the student's web page.

Researcher

•Objective 1 will be assessed through classroom discussions and a checklist of required items.

•Objectives 2 - 3 will be assessed through classroom discussions, written critiques, and printouts of research found on the Internet.

•Objectives 4 &endash; 5 will be assess by a checklist of requirements.

Evaluator:

•Objective 1 will be assessed through completion of a website evaluation checklist.

Arlys Peterson's Web Site
Created 8/1/99 by AEP
Updated 5/31/05
Comments to Arlys Peterson email at
arlys.peterson@usiouxfalls.edu