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Click on a Benchmark to see assignments, handouts , links, and exemplary lesson
plans to help you get tech savvy. If you still have questions about the portfolio, then click here.
Assessment Rubrics
ED 210 Intro to Teaching
Benchmark1- Word Processing |
ED 210 Intro to Teaching
Benchmark2-Internet |
ED 330 Classroom Methods
Benchmark3-Communication: Email, Chatting,
List-serves |
ED 301a Language Arts Benchmark
4-Desktop Publishing |
ED 301a Language Arts
Benchmark 5-PowerPoint |
ED 303 Math Methods Benchmark
6-Excel Spreadsheets and Database-Math & Science |
ED 304 Science Methods Benchmark
7-Evaluating Content Based CD-ROMs and Tutorial Software |
ED 302 Social Studies Methods
Benchmark 8-Using Simulation Software in the
Classroom |
| ED 301 b Reading Methods Benchmark
9-WebPage Creation using FrontPage |
ED 392 Practicum & Seminar Benchmark
10-Multimedia using HyperStudio |
Teaching Practicum (4th year) Benchmark
11-Demonstration of Technology |
Lab Maintenance-see Sylvia
Henry to sign up for class. |
 | Benchmark #1 -ED 210 Intro to
Teaching
Technology Skill-Using Word Processing in the Classroom
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| Student Directions:
 | 1. Your task is to read the article below about why teachers might use word
processing in teaching. Word-processing
in Teaching- this is a short article by Georgia State University's College of
Education and Division of Continuing Education. |
| 2. Check out the website by Claire Bradin Siskin below. Look over the different ways
that you can use word processing and the reasons why you would create a website for your
students.What you can do with Word Processing
in any classroom-by Claire Bradin Siskin |
| 3. If you don't know how to do word processing or you want to improve your word
processing skills, then click on the Step by Step links here. |
| 4. Do Exercises 1 and 2. Turn them in to Sylvia Henry
or your Technology Mentor. Exercise
1 Using Microsoft Word Exercise
2 Using Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer |
| 5. Look over the Additional Resources just below for more ideas on how to integrate Word
Processing skills into classroom assignments.
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| 6. Portfolio Assignment: Do Assignments 1 and 2 listed below. If you have questions,
please see Carol, Sylvia, or your Technology Mentor.
 | Assignment #1- Write up an activity sheet, which
includes title, header or footer, page numbers, a table, a drawing, and consistent
margins. Use spell checking and save in different formats such as Rich Text Format (RTF)
or ASCII (TXT).Turn it in on a disk or send it to Sylvia
or Carol by email. |
| Assignment #2-Submit an electronic word processor
document containing features typical in complex materials for students or complex products
by students, specifically, an automatically generated table of contents, outline
formatting, and no spelling errors that a spell-checking program can detect. |
| OR Submit electronic files containing two document templates
(sometimes called "stationery"), with styles (sometimes called "font
styles" or "paragraph styles"), that the candidate might use to prepare
materials for K-12 pupils, or that K-12 pupils might use in a writing assignment. |
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| Benchmark #2 -ED 210 Intro to Teaching
Technology Skill-Integrating the Internet into Classroom Activities
| Student Directions:
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| Benchmark #4- ED 301 a
Bilingual Language Arts Methods
Technology Skill-Using Desktop Publications in the Classroom
| Student Directions:
| 1. Read this article- Bringing the
Author To Life- by Bob Chesney on his experience using Desktop Publishing with
students. |
| 2.What
is Desktop Publishing |
| 3. Check out this website About Desktop
Publishing COM -Anything and Everything about Desktop Publishing in Education |
| 4. Examine this lesson plan on Titanic- Great
Example of integrating content information and using Publisher/PowerPoint/Webpage
making. |
| 5. Read about How to deal
with Plagiarism |
| 6. Do Microsoft's
Tutorial on Using Publisher |
| 7. Look over some of these resources to improve your Desktop Publishing skills:
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| 7. Do Assignments 8 and 9:
| Assignment #8-present a document such as a newsletter or
flyer with graphics, columns, correct margins, and spell checked. Use Publisher (or Adobe
PageMaker) to make a simple flyer |
| Assignment #9-write a well thought out and creative
lesson plan that includes the use of desktop publishing as an essential component.Follow
the criteria from Assignment 7.
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| Benchmark #5-ED 301 a Bilingual Language Arts
Methods
Technology Skill-Using PowerPoint in Teaching
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| Benchmark #6 -ED 303 Math
Methods
Technology Skill-Using Spreadsheets and Databases in Math class
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| Student Directions:
| 1. Read the article Math and
Science Connections using EasyExcel |
| 2. Read the article The
Great International Pennies Toss by Paul Reese & Mona
Monroe (using Spreadsheets) |
| 3. Read
the Article on Teaching the First Database Skills to Students by
Diana Charles Stevenson |
| 4. Read the Intro- Excel (This is a pdf file, so
if you don't have Adobe Acrobat on your computer, you won't be able to read it. You can
also check out a copy of the handout from the Language and Literature Lab.) |
| 5. Do
the Online Excel 97 Tutorial or Excel 2000
Tutorial |
| 6.Build the M & M Database using the Mighty M & M Lesson Plan (
Pretend you have M & Ms or borrow the "imitation bag of M and Ms" from the
lab.) |
| 7.Now go on to learn about using Graphs and Charts with your students. |
| 8. Read over some of the lesson plans here:
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| 9. Look over some of these other great resources for using Spreadsheets or Databases
with your students.
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| 10. Do Assignments 12, 13, and 14.
| Assignment#12- write a well thought out and creative
instructional plan that includes the use of a spreadsheet or database as an essential
component integrating Science content. Send it in RTF format to cwduffy@comfsm.fm |
| Assignment #13- present printouts of a data set two columns wide and 20
rows long, that uses formulas in the third column or twenty first row to compute new
variables or summaries, and that represents the data in tables or graphs. |
| OR present printouts of a database that contains at least 10 records and at
least4 fields per record, that uses the find/sort functions to select a sub-set of cases,
and print out lists of the whole data set and the sub-set. |
| Assignment #14- submit to their instructor or trainer
electronic spreadsheet files containing a numeric data set pertinent to a K-12 subject,
along with statistical and graphical analyses that bring out patterns in the data that
should be revealed to K-12 students, or that K-12 students should discover in Math or
Science data. |
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| Benchmark #7- ED 304 Science
Methods
Technology Skill- Evaluating Content Based CD-ROMs and Tutorial Software
| Student Directions
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| Benchmark #8- ED 302 Social
Studies Methods
Technology Skill-Using Simulation Software in the Classroom
| Student Directions:
| 1. Read over the Description of Simulation Software and some of the Examples: SimCity, Choices, Choices,
Decisions,
Decisions, |
| 2. Read article 1 and article 2 about two teachers' experiences using Simulation
Software.
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| 3. Look over some of the Additional Resources for Social Studies:
4. Watch this PowerPoint Presentation on Simulation Software
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| 5. Check out Choices, Choices from the LRC and review it. (Assignment #16)
| Assignment # 16-Submit a review, from the point of view
of a K-12 teacher, of one piece of simulation software. The review includes an examination
of the potential instructional uses of the software, and an evaluation of the artistic,
technical and pedagogical qualities of the software. |
| OR write a well thought out and creative instructional plan that
includes the use of a piece of educational software as an essential component and write
a short description of your lesson plan and post it to our discussion board.
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| Benchmark #9- ED 301 b
Bilingual Reading Methods
Technology Skill- Using Webpages and Webquest Activities
| Student Directions
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| Benchmark # 10 ED 392 Practicum
and Seminar (3rd year program)
Technology Skill- Using Multimedia Projects in the Classroom
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| Benchmark #11- Teaching Practicum
(4 th year program)
Technology Skill- Demonstrating Technology in the Classroom
| Student Directions:
| Create your lesson integrating technology |
| Meet with the mentor to discuss the lesson plan |
| Teach the lesson |
| Afterwards write a short journal about the teaching experience. Reflect
on what went well and on what you feel you need to do to improve the lesson. |
| Meet with your mentor and discuss the lesson. |
| Revise your lesson based on your discussion with your mentor.
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| Assignment# 22
| write a thoughtful and creative lesson plan that includes any component
of technology that you have learned so far; execute the lesson plan with your students
while being observed by your mentor. |
| Portfolio: organize all of your portfolio items and turn them in at the
end of your Practicum.
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| Lab Maintenance Requirement -Computer Maintenance
Summer
Fun-Article on Basic Computer Upkeep by Bill Bateman on
Assignment #23-Take the lab maintenance quiz.
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| Extra info: Distance Education Resources
What
is Distance Ed?
Glossary
of Terms for Distance Ed
Developing
Video Tapes for Education |
Portfolio:
Each Education student should have a technology teaching portfolio
when they graduate. This portfolio could then be used to demonstrate your technical skills
and understanding of the teaching methodology involved in using computers and technology
in the classroom. A completed portfolio will include the following:
| 3-Lesson plans |
| Journals that include mentoring and self-reflection information |
| Classroom observations |
| Supervisor observations |
| Samples of participation in List-Serve, E-Mail, and ICQ Chat sessions |
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