Subject Specific Knowledge: Tutorials

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Vian Public Schools
 Online Technology Competencies

What technologies are available now
The internet, the WWW, educational software, and electronic classrooms are examples of modern technology being used in many of today's schools. Many examples of quality material are available on the Internet.

Technology in the discipline/subject for learning
Software applications that are available for downloading on the Internet may be examples of technology in specific discplines.

To find shareware on the internet that is specific to a discpline, follow these steps.

1. Connect to the Internet with Netscape or Internet Explorer
2. Open the URL: http://www.yahoo.com or go to Search and select Yahoo.
3. Type in math lessons curriculum (three words in the search text field, seperated by spaces)
4. Read through several of the resulting search result annotations.
5. Link to one or more of the resulting sites to search for lesson plans available online or available for download. The Technology Resources section of this site has specific sites selected for subject specific knowledge.
6. Use a word processor to track the sites you have visited by copying and pasting the titles of pages, the http links, and some descriptive information about the site. You may print this out for your students, or,
7. Use and save a bookmark list of the sites you find with your internet browser. Bring this bookmark list on line and let the students explore the site.

Schools are now able to use the Internet to connect and communicate with each other as well as set up Intranets to communicate within their own school. Students in different classes can collaborate on projects, share homework assignments, review the teacher's comments, or pick up teacher notes using electonic mail, class web pages, and an Internet browser like Netscape/MS Explore.

Add to your curriculum design by including a statement on how you would use the following technologies to enhance the classroom.

• Electronic mail (e-mail)
• Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs)
• The Internet
• Telephone-based audioconferencing
• Videoconferencing with 1- or 2- way video and 2- way audio via broadcast, cable, telephone, fiber-optics, satellite, microwave, closed-circuit or low power television

Issues to consider when using media and technology:

• Learner characteristics and needs
• The influence of media upon the instructional process
• Equity of access to interactive delivery systems
• New roles of the teacher and other participants - learner support
• The site facilitator, operational issues, management issues
• The student in the distance learning process
• Strategies to increase interactivity and active learning
• Technology selection and adoption
• Cost and benefit of the trade off from tradtional education

• Word Processors produce English and foreign language assignments.
• Spreadsheets produce charts and graphs of related items like species and species attributes, timelines of historical data, and charts of environmental information.
• Databases store, sort, and retrieve collections of information.
• The internet and student web pages allow for quick editing, multidimensional project designs, peer review, quick access to subject specific material.

Search the internet for subject specific material and keep track of your reviews.

1. Use any of these words and other descriptives to search on the internet for related sites containing supplemental information.
2. Open an HTML editor and create a web page of sites you find, for example:

• Mathematics sites with background information
• Historical mathematical figures
• Geometry sites
• Algebra exercises
• Mathematical Images

1. Include a title for the web page, in-page links using the <A Name=#linktohere> tag and creating the anchor by the link with the word 'linktohere'.
2. Save your work as tut11.htm and use it in the classroom to review the sites with the students.

• Word Processors produce memos, letters, homework assignments, and other textual information.
• Spreadsheets produce charts and graphs of related items like students and students scores, months and monthly budgets, sales by region and names of regions.
• Databases store, sort, and retrieve collections of information.
• The internet and student web pages allow for quick editing, multidimensional project designs, peer review, quick access to information.

Using your curriculum design from tutorial 10.3, create several homework assignments using the applications above and have the students use the same applications to complete the assignments. For example,

1. Provide them with a word document about the homework assignment - and have them turn in a word document about their plans for their project.
2. Use a spreadsheet to graph their names and project target dates - Have them open this spreadhseet and enter the information into it.
3. Create a database of student names, project names, target dates, project summary information, and media used in the student project - show the students this database and how it is used to sort and track information. Let the students create a database for the class where every record is their project that includes their project media.
4. Use a web page to announce updatae to the assignments, special progress tasks, and to provide quick informative links you have found to supplement the exercise - let the students read the assignment information through an internet browser. Have the students search a few sites and report on them using a choice of a word processor or a HTML editor. Have the students compare and contrast sites using spreadsheets. Use the class database to download files and images to be used in their projects.

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This list is derived from the Technology Advisory Committee

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