EDUC791C Course Info

Times & Locations: every other Thursday, 7-9.30pm, ACIV, Room 207
Instructor:Dr. Sandra Shattuck
Email: shattuck@umbc.edu
Office Hours: Mondays, 7-9pm & Tuesdays, 9-10pm, on OldPuebloMOO
Course Website - http://research.umbc.edu/~shattuck/educ791c.html

Recommended Books - available at UMBC Bookstore

Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age. AAUW Educational Foundation Commission on Technology, Gender, and Teacher Education (NY: AAUW Foundation, 2000) ISBN: 1879922231
MOOniversity: A Student's Guide to Online Learning Environments. Jan Rune Holmevik & Cynthia Haynes (Needham Heights MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2000) ISBN: 0205271146
Web Wisdom: How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web. Janet E. Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate (Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.,1999) ISBN: 0-8058-3123-1
additional readings - most additional reading will come from online sources and will be linked from the Daily Plan. ***Be sure to print out readings well in advance of the due date.***

Description & Goals

This course is a 1-credit course designed to complement your current or future teaching experience. We will focus on ways to incorporate instructional technology in the classroom while also analyzing the pedagogical efficacy of such technology. We also will work towards incorporating your accomplishments into an e-portfolio.

More specifically, this course aims to

• introduce participants to a range of instructional technology practices geared towards both students and teachers in the K-12 area
• provide participants with the tools to analyze the pedagogical efficacy of such systems
• facilitate participants' ability to produce and revise their own methods of incoporating instructional technologies
• foster participants' activity in larger instructional technology communities (through email discussion lists and educational MOOs)

Assignments & Grading Policies - or How We Study, What We Produce, and How We Evaluate

We will decide as a group what kinds of intellectual product would be most beneficial. Some of my ideas include the following:

• critical responses to the reading
• individual presentation of some class material
• weekly participation in broader online communities (discussion lists and MOOs) and written reflection on that participation
• development of an e-portfolio, which would include work in this course

These ideas are open for discussion. We will decide collectively how to evaluate intellectual production.

first published: 31 january 2002
last revised: 31 january 2002
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