Project 1: |
Design your index.html file. This page should introduce you as a teacher-to-be to the online visitor. Quotes and graphics that reflect your professional and personal style are appropriate. Create email and course links in a table on your index page. Post your index page using WinSCP file transfer. Assure that your images are not copyrighted or that you have obtained permission to use them. |
Project 2: |
Create your resume according to the Joy Maril educator's model resume from EIU Career Services which is linked in your calendar. Save the MSWord file as a .pdf file, using the Adobe software. Name your file resume.pdf, and post it to the server. Link your resume to this projects page and also directly to your index page. |
Project 3: |
Post a Linkslog/ resources page, a closet file of your most frequently used professional, academic, and personal Web resources. For each site you save on this page, display the title, URL, and a few words(caption) about what you found there.Tag your sites with categories meaningful to you. Examples of your categories might be Free_Graphics, Free_Music, Math, Standards, World_Hunger, Personal, etc.This project may be completed by using a delicious account. |
Project 4: |
Explore several school sites. Consider the ways technology is supporting learning at these schools. Write a reflective paragraph with links to examples of how technology supports learning at a selected school and at a grade level and subject area of your choice. Begin your essay by giving reasons for choosing this school, grade level, and subject area. Incorporate several links into your short essay. Show children's work from an on-line school in one or more of your linked examples. Also link this project to a classroom podcast and a classroom blog. Name this file techinschools.html |
| Project
5: |
Create
a personal page. Place your own photos
or scanned images there. Create a
Photostory or an MS Moviemaker file to enhance this page. |
Project 6: |
Select a curriculum theme, according the the categories listed in the course calendar link. Frame your theme as an essential question. Refer to Essential Questions links. Carefully research your theme. Anticipate using these strategies when developing an inegrated teaching unit for your future class. Provide a bulleted list of rationale statements explaining the reasons for and potential benefits of studying this theme. Use evaluation categories to review an excellent Web site as a teacher and/or student resource for this curriculum theme. Use the essential question as the title of your page, followed by the bulleted rationale, and site evaluation. The site evaluation consists of narrative paragraphs for each evaluation category: Accuracy and Authority, Content Relevance, Currency, and Coverage, Design and Navigation, Additional Resources. Be sure to prominently display the site title and as a link to the reviewed site centered at the head of your review. Give specific examples from the selected site in each of your narrative paragraphs to justify your evaluation. Use your own words in your review. Carefully use quotation marks if you use words from the site. Name this file currtheme.html Design, link, and post the curriculum theme and site evaluation page. |
Project 7: |
Use Inspiration software to develop avenues for exploration of the curriculum theme. Export (use the File drop-down menu to find the export command) the Inspiration concept map as a .gif file and import it onto a Composer page. Post this page (conceptmap.html) and the .gif file to the Web. |
Project 8: |
Use Excel and the GraphingWizard for a mathematical analysis related to your curriculum investigation. Display your data and post your graph to the Web according to the tutorial in the Fewell/Gibbs text. Name this file graph.html. |
Project 9: |
Find
or create a SmartBoard Activity in support of your curriculum
theme. Link the activity to Project 6. |
Project 10: |
Evaluate a WebQuest or Web Inquiry Project closely related to your curriculum theme. Apply Illinois content standards for technology and ISTE standards which are met in your WQ/WIP. Use categories provided in the evaluation form linked here and provided in hardcopy in your course packet. Turn in ahard copy page of the applied standards and a hard copy of the WQ or WIP evaluation with your margin notes explaining your rating. Link the URL of the related WebQuest to your curriculum theme page AND here as Project 10. |
Project 11: |
Using Audacity software, create a podcast explaining the importance and extent of your chosen curriculum theme. Add music and sound effects as appropriate. Insert the link to your podcast at the beginning of your curriculum theme page, under the essential question title. |
Project 12: |
Using PowerPoint software, create a presentation on a Computer Ethics topic. Your presentation should include explanation of the issue, your personal experience of the issue, and your current position on the issue. Appropriate links should be imbedded in the presentation. Save the presentation as a .mht file and link to Project 12, this page, with the disclaimer that the presentation as linked on the Web, cannot be read in Netscape. (Use Explorer, Mozilla, etc.) |