EDU_33692

=Childhood Education Practicum II: =
 * Teaching Methods Through Technology Educational Workshops (EDU 33692)**

To Current Class

The topics we will cover are as follows:


 * Class #1 – Open Web Reading**
 * What are examples of good edublogs?
 * How can we use "folksonomy" to find teaching materials online?
 * How can we save social bookmarks to a class?


 * Class #2 – Online Education Research**
 * How can we use ERIC to help us create lesson plans?
 * What online citation machines can help us create APA citations?


 * Class #3 – Online Writing**
 * How can Wikis be an effective collaboration tool?

Class #4 – Data Management & Video Ripping


 * How can we align Regents standards with assessment questions?
 * What formatting techniques can we use to reproduce Regents test questions?
 * What additional online test bank materials can we use in designing assessments?


 * How can we use RSS syndication to find current events that can help develop a lesson?
 * How can we use mashups to keep current with best practices?
 * How can I use online videos in the classroom?


 * Class #5 – Special Topics**

These topics will be applied across curriculum. Groups of 2-3 students will choose a subject area (Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, Science, Art, Physical Ed.) as well as an Aim for a lesson in that area. As we explore the above topics, each group will apply what they learn to developing a Unit Plan organized around their chosen Aim. Each group's final product will be memorialized on our class wiki, freely accessible for any teacher with Internet access. This process will help us all experience writing as an organic, evolutionary process: easily uploaded and downloaded, constantly upgraded, hopefully valuable to other educators.

Student Portfolios will include:

Homework #1

 * 1) //Students// will form groups of no less than two and no more than three students. Each //group// will decide which content area (math, science, social science, art, or language arts) they will research for their lesson plans, etc., and post a comment to the blog, listing the names of every student in the group, and the content area. **Only one group** may choose a given content area.
 * 2) Each //student// will post a bookmark in the Diigo class webpage identifying primary materials that can help facilitate learning in a lesson in the group's content area.
 * 3) Each //group// will choose an Aim for a lesson plan appropriate to the chosen content area.

Homework #2

 * 1) Each //group// will use the [|ERIC search engine] to locate 2-3 articles that pertain instruction and delivery of the lesson.
 * 2) Each //group// will write up APA citations for each of the ERIC articles they found.

Homework #3

 * 1) Each //group// will find 5 lesson plan Webpages that offer a lesson plan that pertains to the group's Aim, **and** are **not** already on the lesson plan wiki . Each lesson plan reference will include a hyperlink, **and** a few sentences describing //why// this is a good lesson plan for your Aim.
 * 2) Each //group// will upload their research to their wiki page.

Homework #4

 * 1) Each //group// will identify the National, New York State and New York City standards that align to the Aim, using the Educational Standards listed on the class wiki.
 * 2) Each //group// will upload their aligned Standards to their group's wiki page.
 * 3) Each //group// will find one [|Regents question] aligned with their standards. Each //group// will copy, paste and format the Regents question in the test item template, as a Word document.
 * 4) Each //group// will identify one [|NAEP] question aligned with their standards. Each //group// will identify one other state assessment question, from the wiki page, that is aligned with the lesson plan standards.


 * 1) Each //student// identify a current event that could be relevant to their group's lesson plan.
 * 2) Each //group// will find a video on the Internet that they are comfortable using in their lesson.
 * 3) Each //group// download the video either as a Flash file, or embedded in a PowerPoint slide.

Homework #5

 * 1) Each //student// will use either the newspaper or edublog mashup to find three postings about a professional development topic. Each //student// will post the URLs for each of the posting to the group wikipage.

Wiki Resources


 * Education Standards
 * Research
 * Lesson Plans

Student Work
 * Lesson Plans
 * Students

To Current Class