Education 235-Week 5

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Week 5 - Weekly To Do List - Half way through!!!

	Discussion
	Textbook Reading Guide
	Activities
	Web Resources

Discussion

Here are Week Five's discussion questions.

When and how would it be appropriate to use drill-and-practice software? What would be the relative advantage?

Would you allow game software in your classroom? How? Why?

Give us your ideas and observations in the conference in Week 5 discussion.

TRG = Textbook Reading Guide

See TRG, your Textbook Reading Guide, who will tell you what pages to read in your textbook. Also he will give you MacDonald's insights on the chapter. Just follow the sneakers.

Activities

There are two activities this week: one short and one long! Which do you want first? OK. I 'll give the short one first.

1. Survey of Instructional Software Click here to take our Online Survey. What software do you know about that is currently being used in the K-12 schools.

2. Create a Rubric. Your text talks about creating a rubric on pages 115 and 116. However, I want you to both have the opportunity to create a rubric, using technology tools to do this, and the chance to apply the rubric to your learning in this course.

Task: Create a rubric with a minimum of a 4 by 4 matrix on one of the tool topics below (You choose ONE.) You may try out one of the rubric maker tools or simply make a table in Word, if you prefer.

Topic Choices:

Create a rubric for assessing comprehension and application of one of the chapters in your textbook. You get to choose which chapter you would like to work with.OR
Create a rubric for Education majors (pre-service teachers) to demonstrate their proficiency in the use of a word processor in teaching and learning. What do you think are the minimum standards for teachers to know and be able to do in word processing.

Tools:

My favorite tool is RubiStar, because I can see what other teachers have done and adapt some of their ideas and get some help from what they have done. Then the tool, itself provides a format to just fill in the boxes, which makes it easy to do.
Rubric Builder lets you build a 9 x 9 matrix, if you need more boxes.
General Rubric Generator (the free one) lets you build 5 boxes with a graphic.

Be sure to save the access information, so we can see these rubrics, if they are stored online.

Weekly updates of Portfolio Competencies and Annotated Bibliography

Go to your Portfolio update conference and let me know what you learned in week 5 and how it applies to your NETS checklist. You may attach a file, if you wish or just copy and paste into the message area. Use of color is just fine. Please label it week 5, since I am beginning to lose count!

Annotated Bibliography

You can put this in your private folder and just add to it each week. So what sites or books or magazines did you find this week that you want to add to your bibliography.

Some of you may want to put your bibliography on a web page. We are going to use http://www.scholastic.com FREE Classroom HomePage Builder. Or you may want to keep the list of links in a folder called Bibliography on PortaPortal.

Web Resources

FREE OFFICE - if you do not have Microsoft Office or maybe you are just missing PowerPoint, here is a FREE OFFICE - so it's NOT by Microsoft but reads Word, PowerPoint and Excel files and its files can be read by Word, PowerPoint and Excel. . You can download it for FREE or send for it on CD for $6.00

It's called OPEN OFFICE and it is at

http://www.openoffice.org

Chemeketa is selling a cdrom of resources for your use at the college. It is available in the bookstore for $3.00. It's called the IT disk.

If you don't have Excel, you may want to have this for next week's assignment.

The Online Space for Teachers Integrating Technology into the Classroom!
Sounds like a good resource for this class and it is! Some of the tools are available in both English and Spanish. Includes quizStar, Casa Notes, NoteStar and, of course, RubiStar.

http://4teachers.org/

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