EDHD
5007:Technology for Teaching and Learning |
| WELCOME! I am so excited to have all of you as instructors for the EdHD 5007 courses for spring, 2008. The 5007 course is definitely my little baby and passion as I have seen it evolve over the last eight years. The preservice teacher education technology program has been nationally recognized and I know you will be a fantastic addition! The key to this course is to make the preservice teachers excited and knowledgeable about utilizing technology within their future classrooms. You need to be excited about teaching the course and let them know that utilizing technology in the classroom is extremely beneficial for them and their students. Below you are able to download the instructors for this spring and I have also CC'd everyone on the emails I am sending to you. Thus, feel free to ask each other for assistance and ideas to make your course a real success. The course you are teaching is a content, cohort-specific technology course. Thus, all students are to be in the same content area and they will benefit by being able to learn content-specific technologies and discussing these technologies and appropriate pedagogy with you and their peers. I have outlined a number of key issues you should be aware of to make your experience and your students' experiences a huge success. PLEASE read through this page carefully and bring questions to our meeting. 1)
NCATE Accreditation College of Education
& Human Development Mission Statement Under the Standards of Effective Practice section you will find the grid that highlights what I am teaching and what activity or performance assessment I feel meets the standards. Make sure that your syllabus includes this within it. Here is also the standards grid from the college so you can understand what they are. If you are teaching the same technologies as I did within the attached syllabus, feel free to use what I have provided . *** Once you have completed
your syllabus, make sure you send me a copy as I need to turn it in to
the department. 2) eFolio Minnesota - www.efoliomn.com eFolio Minnesota (eFolioMN) is an online electronic portfolio tool developed by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. The College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota has made the decision to integrate eFolioMN in all preservice teacher education programs. The two primary goals of the portfolio are for students to showcase how they have met the Minnesota Board of Teaching (BOT) standards and to serve as a multimedia showcase that instructors can refer to throughout the students’ teacher education program. It is the role of the 5007 instructors to teach the students within our section how to use eFolioMN and to illustrate just how important it is as within their eFolio they will be showcasing how they have met the BOT standards, which will be used by their major advisors to illustrate how they met the standards for graduation. Therefore, it is very important! Furthermore, the eFolio will be used by the students to assist them in getting a job. It is an excellent tool and our role as instructors is to get them comfortable in the use of it. To make it more clear and to assist you in teaching eFolioMN, please see the following documents. 1welcome.pdf All of the students in the college received these four documents at the orientation this spring. I spoke to them to let them know the importance of this technology and also went through the planning documents that I have attached above. Please read through them and let me know if you have any questions. Also here is an eFolio rubric which you can utilize as you see necessary. Lastly, I have worked on developing an online tutorial for both teachers and students who are developing an eFolio. This tutorial has been developed in WebCT and to access it, you should follow the following steps. I would encourage you to give this to your students when you are teaching this technology. 1 - Access WebCT by going to http://vista.umn.edu 2 - INSTEAD of using your normal UMN log-in, you should use the following generic log-in to access the eFolio tutorials. Username: olatcehd 3 - You can then access all of the tutorials to help develop the eFolioMN. 3) Teacherweb - www.teacherweb.com Teacherweb is the online web development tool. Unless you have decided not to teach Teacherweb and utilize Macromedia Dreamweaver or Netscape Composer, you will need to have the free access code which is FF44EDUMS. 4) Peik 355 and 325 Please note the following: Keys - Please contact Jerry Larson for keys to either 355 or 325. Jerry's email is jlarson@ umn.edu. Jerry is also in charge of lab hours. Therefore, he will be putting these together and will post them and let you know ASAP. Lab Assistant - The lab assistant for this spring is Yang Lin. The time he available in the lab will be made known on the calendar so you can tell your students that she can help them with technology-related issues. The "other" lab assistants are from anywhere in the college and will have their times also made available on the calendar. Yang's email is yanglin@umn.edu. WebCT Vista - I have asked for my Vista site to be replicated for you. You can use this as you choose. Questions regarding vista can be directed to webct @ umn.edu. To log in to vista:
Software -
Please make sure you test the software before teaching
it. The software is key shared between the 355 and 325 labs, so it
shouldn't matter what lab you are teaching in. I am working on getting
additional software installed as you request it. The person to contact
with software or lab issues is Patrick. You should
email him on the listserv, which goes to everyone related to technology
in the college - CEHDLAB355@LISTS.UMN.EDU. There is also a sheet of
paper hanging by the instructor computer that has names and numbers
you can call in an emergency.
I have decided not to have a textbook for this course for the first time in seven years. There are many reasons for this, but simply stated, I and many of the students felt it was a waste of money. I have decided to identify four seminal articles for this class and then ask you to identify a minimum of two content-specific articles for your class. If you would please email them to me, that would be great so I can simply take a look at them. You can see from the sample syllabi I am providing in the syllabus section that I normally ask them to read one article/chapter per class meeting. You can use this same approach, but feel free to do as you see best. The articles that I have identified at minimum for your course are: Computers as Mindtools for Engaging Learners in Critical Thinking Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A Framework for Teacher Knowledge Levels of teaching: A taxonomy for instructional design Constructivism in the Classroom: If I Teach This Way, Am I Doing My Job?
You are more than welcome to use my syllabi and anything that I have put together over the years. The key to the entire course is to make it content-specific for the course you are teaching. Thus, if you are teaching social studies, you probably want to include a facet on geospatial technologies such as Google Earth. Below are links to download various syllabi. Please feel free to use as necessary. As you will see, I have changed my approach to students handing in their assignments and the rubrics. I used to have the rubrics attached to the syllabi and they handed the rubric into me for grading. Now, the rubric and the entire process of handing in assignments is done via WebCT. You will see this in the WebCT section I have asked to be duplicated for you. Elementary Education Social Studies Education English Education Elementary Education Early Childhood Education Agriculture
As you will see on my syllabus that I have provided for you, I don't have any "new" technologies or Web 2.0 technologies. I would encourage you all to think about how you might incorporate these into your class and supplant some other technologies. Some technologies to consider are: Google Suite of Tools Wikipedia Blogs Wikis Google Earth Flickr Movie Development Think about what you believe is most important and we will also discuss this as a group.
Please contact Agnes Malika with any questions regarding your pay. She can be contacted at mrutu002@umn.edu .
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