Here are your assignments for this class.
If you would like to do something else for any of these assignment, please talk to me about it. I am very flexible and want you to be doing assignments that will be beneficial to you and your students.
All written assignments should include (1) a professionally designed cover sheet and (2) an introductory explanation/write-up explaining the assignment, what you did, and how you went about doing it, and the value to you of doing the assignment.
Word Processing (2)
1. Resume (Find a number of sample resumes on the Internet. Create your own resume using one of them as a model.) (If you already have a resume, rework it and make it better.)
2. Cover Letter for a specific job. Find a job
announcement in the paper or from the UGA placement office for a job that
might interest you. Write a cover letter that will go with your application
for that specific job.
Turn in (1) a hard copy of your resume, (2) your cover
letter, (3) an explanation/write-up and (4) a professionally designed
cover sheet.
Data Base (1)
(Use ClarisWorks (Macintosh) (If you know Access for
Windows use it)
1. Create a data base that you can use in the subject
area you will be teaching. (For instance, if you are teaching science,
you might create a data base of the "trees of Georgia" This data
base might have fields such as: Common name, scientific name, tree
type, location in state, picture of tree, etc.)
Your data base should have a minimum
of 10 fields in each record, with at least 8 records in the data
base. (NOTE: Changes in this
assignment in database area. Page 59E of your notebook)
Turn in a hard copy of (1) a complete record
showing all of the fields of your data base and (2) a layout showing
all of your records (but only two or three fields) in a column, sorted
in alphabetical order, (3) an appropriate explanation/write-up, and (4)
a professionally designed cover sheet.
Spread Sheet (1) (Use Excel - It is on both Macintosh and Windows)
1. I will give you your spread sheet assignment in
class.
You will turn in (1) a hard copy of your spread
sheet (1 page), (2) a graph created from your spread sheet (1 page),
(3) your professionally designed cover sheet, and (4) an explanation/write-up
of the assignment.
Draw Programs (1) (ClarisWorks on Macintosh)
1. Using the draw program, and create a real or fake announcement for an upcoming family reunion on the 4th of July, 2000. Be creative. Print out a hard copy of this assignment and turn it in. (NOTE: No cover sheet or explanation page required.)
Paint Programs (1) (ClarisWorks on Macintosh)
1. Using the paint program create a "postcard" of you. Use as many of the paint tools as you can. Draw a picture of yourself as part of the postcard. Creatively show things that are of interest and importance to you. (Once done, copy your file to my "Inbox.")
Web Search (4) (Either Platform)
(Hard copy with appropriate explanation/write-up and cover sheet for the entire assignment. In other words, turn in all Web Search assignments in the same "package." )
1.Find three articles in the ERIC data base that were
written by professors you know in the College of Education (COE).
If you do not know any professors in the COE find articles by folks from
this list: (A) The Dean of the COE (You will have to find his
name on your own.), (B) The Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs in
the COE (You will have to find her name on our own.), (C) Any of
the former Deans of the COE. (You will have to find their names on your
own.)
ïCopy and Paste the information available in ERIC
on each article to a new word processing file. You may lose some
of the formatting when you do this, so clean up the file, deleting unwanted
spaces, etc. You may also want to add titles and headings that better
indicate what you have found.
2. Thoroughly evaluate this site. http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/
.
Use the evaluation form I provide you as a guide to
gather your information. Now write a review of this site.
(Your review should be 1 page, double spaced, 12 point Times, with no more
than a 1 inch border.)
3. Complete the EDIT Maymester 2000 Internet scavenger hunt.
4. Select three search engines that you have not used before. Search these engines for "lessons plans you might use in your subject area. Write a one page paper explaining (1) how you went about searching these engines, (2) the results of your search (I don't want URLs and sites. I want to know how successful you felt the search was in each engine and why, and (3) what you liked and disliked about each engine.
Classroom Presentations (PowerPoint - either platform) (1)
1. Within the next few years you will get your first
teaching job. Create a HyperStudio stack that you can use to introduce
yourself to the rest of the faculty at your first faculty meeting.
Be sure to have a personal component and a professional component to your
stack. Your stack should have a minimum of ten cards. It should
have a link to an Internet site. It should contain a variety of graphics.
Other NBAs should be used when appropriate.
(You will turn this in electronically by copying your
file into my "Inbox." More on this later.)
Web Page Development (NetScape Composer - either platform) (1)
A. Create your own Internet
site. Good examples can be seen at
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~alnaples/
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~er18vt/
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~candi14/
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~arsplash/
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~merlin98/
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~dinkid/
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~maryles/
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~jbright/
1.
Have a section that links to three good sites that deal with your hobbies
and interests.
2.
Have another section that links to five good sites that relate to your
program of study at UGA. (One of these five sites should be lesson
plans in your field.)
3.
Have another section that links to three good sites that deal with places
where you have lived.
OR (NOTE: This is an "or," -- you don't do both)
B. Create an Internet site that would help supplement a specific lesson you might teach. A good example may be seen at http://www.arches.uga.edu/~abbarker/barker.html
Evaluate all the sites you plan to use ("link") on your homepage carefully to make sure they are good before using them.
1. Required email assignments are included in the class
syllabus.
2. Dialogue with the instructor on a regular basis
Readings
1. Throughout the semester you will react, in writing,
to readings that deal with technology:
A. Michael Covington - "Ethics on the Internet"
B. "Benefits of Technology in Education" (From
"New Technologies for Education" by Ann Barron and Gary Orwig)
C. "Six Stages for Learning to Use Technology"
(From the Proceedings of Selected Research and Development
Presentations at the 1996 Association for Educational Communications
and Technology Convention.)
D. "Graphic Design Principles and Technique"
(From "Technology and Media -Instructional Applications," by
Teague, Rogers, and Tippling)
E. Spreadsheets - "Using Spreadsheet Software
in Teaching and Learning" , (From Integrating Educational Technology
into Teaching by M.D. Roblyer and Jack Edwards)and "Spreadsheets
in the Math Class" (From the National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics)
F. "The Internet," by Guillermo Pedroni, Southern
Illinois University
G. "Lo and behold, the Net was born--sometime"
by Bruce Haring, USA Today
Notebook
1. You will maintain a notebook of all handouts, assignments and correspondence carried out in this class. These notebooks will be collected and graded at the end of the semester and will be returned to you. (NOTE: This assignment may be waived depending on how handouts are distributed.)
Final Project
1. A five page double-spaced paper that incorporates all of the delivery methods and applications you will learn in this class into the teaching of a lesson on a very specific topic. (I will give you more information on this project later in the semester.)