| Instructor: | Josh Charles, M.Ed., Technology Learning Lab |
| Email: | charlesj@umkc.edu |
| Instructor: | Josh Charles, M.Ed., Technology Learning Lab |
| Email: | charlesj@umkc.edu |
| Office Hours: | By appointment, Education 129C |
| Phone: | (816) 235-2385 |
| Class Location: | Room 34, School of Education |
| Meeting Dates and Times: | Wednesday, 12:00pm - 2:45pm |
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Required Texts: | O'Bannon, Blanche and Puckett, Kathleen. Preparing to Use
Technology. Pearson Education, Inc. 2007 Assigned readings (Please refer to the Calendar) |
Please review the School of Education's Mission and Values.
This course provides an introduction to computer components (both Macintosh and PCs) and common peripherals, such as printers, scanners, and digital cameras and camcorders. Discussions will include both stand alone and networked computers. The course will survey the most commonly used educational applications including Outlook, Word, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint, Inspiration, iMovie, Quicktime and web-based learning tools such as Blackboard, WebQuests and Filamentality. A variety of Student Information Systems will be demonstrated. Aspects of the Internet that will be covered include an overview of the Internet, methods for connecting, popular browsers, the World Wide Web, search engines, and effective researching techniques. Brief discussions of File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), tools for web page construction, security, and privacy will also be included. There will be an overview of the many ethical and moral considerations associated with teaching in the digital age including plagiarism, intellectual property rights, copyright infringement, and fair use.
There are five main activities associated with the course and each is equally important:
Attending class regularly and actively participating. These sessions will be devoted to discussion of readings or assignments, and working on projects with educational programs. You should notify your instructor before class if you know you will not be able to attend and as soon as possible if something unexpected arises. Since much of this course is hands-on, missing more than ten percent of class hours will negatively impact your grade.
Participation in Online Discussions.
Completing required readings and research before class. Individual research will offer further opportunities for growth and understanding. A quiz will be given at the beginning of each class covering the required course materials for that class period. A worksheet will be linked from the course calendar and should be completed before coming to class.
The quiz worksheet will be available as soon as it's made. You may take the quiz worksheet before coming to class if you wish.
The quiz worksheet will remain available after class, but any quizzes worksheets submitted after class time will not be counted for a grade.
Your two lowest quiz worksheet grades will be dropped, including zeros.
Completing and submitting four projects on time.
More information about the projects in the class can be found under "Projects."
| A ≥ 93% | B+ ≥ 87% | C+ ≥ 77% | D+ ≥ 67% | F < 60% |
| A- ≥ 90% | B ≥ 83% | C ≥ 73% | D ≥ 63% | |
| B- ≥ 80% | C- ≥ 70% | D- ≥ 60% |
You must score a 73% or greater in order to pass the course. Grades for the course are based on a weighted system:
Assignments submitted late will be graded at a 5% loss for every late day. There will be a date posted on the Class Agenda for each class session to inform the student when the assignment should be submitted for grading.
Should class need to be canceled for any reason, an email will be sent to each of you and an announcement will be placed on the home page for this website.
Please be aware that academic dishonesty is a serious breach. If you attempt to pass off someone else's work (such as something you have found on the web) as your own, you will automatically receive a zero for that project. While there are millions of pages on the web, the chances of being caught are still very high thanks to specialized software and meta- searches. You are encouraged to get inspiration from elsewhere, but you must give others credit where it is due.
PLEASE TURN OFF OR SILENCE YOUR CELLULAR PHONES AND PAGERS. IF YOU FEEL YOU MUST ANSWER YOUR PHONE CALLS DURING CLASS, PLEASE LEAVE THE ROOM AS QUIETLY AND AS UNOBTRUSIVELY AS POSSIBLE.
Students with Disabilities-To obtain disability related accommodations and/or auxiliary aids, students with disabilities must contact the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (OSSD) as son as possible. To contact OSSD, call (816) 235-5696. Once verified, OSSD will notify the course instructor and outline the accommodation(s) and/or auxiliary aids to be provided.
At the School of Education, our highest priority is in the health and wellbeing of all of our students, staff, and faculty. As conversations about the state of the H1N1 virus continue at national, state, and local levels, we are implementing the following guidelines to assure the continued integrity of our academic programs in the case of student or faculty illness due to H1H1, or other causes.
Everyone should be knowledgeable about the symptoms for novel H1N1 virus (swine flu). They are fever of 100.4 or over, body aches, cough and sore throat. If you experience these symptoms, particularly the first two, we encourage you to make your health a priority. Stay at home and avoid contact with other people until your fever subsides for at least 24 hours (without the aid of medication). The only exception to the 'stay at home rule' would be to seek any needed medical assistance. Following this primary prevention rule will protect your health and the health of others, particularly any students or clients you may be serving in practica or student teaching settings. For more information about H1N1, please visit the Center for Disease Control's website (http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1flu/qa.htm). For information about UMKC's Recommendations and Communication Plan regarding H1N1, please visit www.umkc.edu/umkcalert/umkcalert_h1n1.asp.
What to do if students become ill?