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Ed 377: Technology in Education for Secondary Educators

CRN 30538 2 credits Seminar format with some blended components Note: Information may be subject to change! 1/13/14 Instructor: Suzie Null Class Times: MW 11:15-12:10 Classroom: EBH 034 on some days we will meet in EBH 213. Those days will be announced on Canvas and posted on the door of EBH 034 on the day of class. Office Phone: 970-247-7671 Cell Phone: 970-799-5032 Office: EBH 258 email: null_s@fortlewis.edu Office Hours: See the office hours schedule posted on Canvas and on the door of Suzies office. Preferred Contact Methods: 1) I strongly prefer email. I am pretty good about responding quickly, but it might sometimes take 48 hours or longer if I am incredibly busy or not home. 2) Also feel free to call either the office number or cell number if you have questions. Please use the cell number between 8 am and 11 pm. Im not a big texter, so I prefer voicemail to a text. Required texts: Materials will be provided via Canvas and online. Other required materials: 1. You MUST have access to a computer AND internet access outside of class. If you dont have a computer and internet access, or if you only have dial-up internet that is very slow, plan time to use the campus computer labs. Some programs and resources we will be using will only be available on campus in specific labs or classrooms. If you miss class or need time out of class to complete assignments, you will need to plan time to come to campus to complete those assignments.

2. Assignments will be posted and submitted primarily on Canvas (with a few later exceptions for Google Plus). You will need to access and learn to use these programs. 3. Bring earphones or headphones to class each day. Some programs require the use of earphones.

Course Description from FLC:

This course requires demonstration of proficiency with technological literacy, particularly the tools necessary for course management and instruction in schools. Students will learn to use software and hardware independently, learn instructional applications in their content area in secondary school settings, and will analyze how and when various technologies are useful in helping students master content objectives. Goals for this Course: Students will explore and apply the technologies that many schools currently expect teachers to use. Each student will also become a specialist an additional technology of her/his choosing and will share their specialty with the class. In the process, students will explore what it means to integrate 21st century literacy skills into their teaching practice, they will become critical thinkers about how to use technology meaningfully when they teach, and they will gain the foundation to become lifelong learners of emerging classroom technologies. Essential Questions: What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century? How can we use technology to share content with students, encourage student interaction, and help students create and share information? What technologies can best help students reach learning objectives? What you will leave with at the end of the semester: An ability to use several of the technologies that you may need to know when you teach. A plan for using several types of technology to enrich a unit in your content area and/or grade level. Expertise in one or more additional technologies of your choice, which you will be able to both apply in your own teaching and teach to your colleagues.

Grading
Module or Category Attendance and Participation Sharing Content Fostering Interaction Having Students Create Final Project Response to Final Projects Percentage of Grade 10% 35% 20% 15% 15% 15%

Grade Scale: 93%-100% = A 90%-92.9% = A87%-89.9% = B+ 83%-86.9% = B 80%-82.9% = B77%-79.9% = C+ 73%-76.9% = C 70%-72.9% = C67%-69.9% = D+ 63%-66.9% = D 60%-62.9% = D0%-59.9% = F

Course Policies:
Attendance You are preparing for a profession in which you MUST be reliable in being at work regularly, on time, and well-prepared. Therefore, 10 participation points for attendance, timelinesss, reading, and participation will be awarded for each class session. Sometimes other assignments will be done and collected during class periods as well. Due to the hands-on nature of the course, points given for attendance cannot be made up. 5 absences will result in automatic failure of the class. This is because people who are absent more than 20% of the time usually have too much trouble keeping up in the course. In addition, the vast majority of work is done during class, and it is not always possible to get a review of what was covered at other times, or to get access to materials in other locations.

I will consider excusing an absence if the student provides documentation that s/he was absent for one of the following reasons: Documented illness Death in the family Severe accident Other major emergency (NOT my car wouldnt start, my dog puked, and I was tired from studying all night for another class). Please note that even excused absences often adversely affect your grade. Tardies: Class begins at the designated time. Teachers cannot be late to class it is a legal supervision issue. Tardies are defined as not being in class at the time when class starts. Each tardy results in a 70% maximum participation grade for that days class. Coming more than 10 minutes late will count as an absence. Also, I usually go over announcements, due dates, and other logistical information at the beginning of the class and people who miss this often have trouble keeping up. Leaving Class: You are preparing for a profession in which you will need to be able to wait for 1-4 hours before you use the bathroom or take care of personal business. Leaving class counts as a tardy. See the tardy policy above. If you have a medical or other reason why you will need to leave class constantly, either throughout the course or on a particular day, please communicate that to the professor. Students are generally expected to be able to stay in the class for the duration of the class time. Students who frequently leave will lose participation points. Leaving more than 15 minutes early when content is being presented or missing more than 20 minutes during the class will count as an absence. If there is a medical or other reason why you need to miss classes, be late to classes, or frequently leave classes, please bring documentation from a doctor or other source (see Contingency Plans). On Gadgets: You are preparing for a profession in which you will need to be fully present when you are in class with your students. Please turn off your cell phone, smartphone, MP3 music player, etc., before you come into class. Please keep it put away when you are in class no texting, surfing, checking messages, games, headphones, etc. during instruction or group interaction times. Use computers and phones at appropriate times for course assignments (such as to access Canvas or the Common Core Standards App), but dont surf the internet or multitask by doing other activities/work. If you are using a cellphone, MP3 player, or inappropriately using the computer, I will warn you once. If you continue,

I will ask you to leave class. If I have already warned you in one or more previous classes, I will ask you to leave with no warning on that day. Cellphone use is allowed if you are using it at designated times to conduct research. If you have a compelling reason to use your phone, please communicate this need with me in advance. Please leave class to take your call. Compelling reasons would include: Being a caregiver to small child or elderly person and needing to be available for contact from the daycare, school, etc. Having a medical need, such as anaphylaxis, which requires immediate access to a phone.

Bringing Children to Class: In general, parents will need to arrange for their children to have care outside of class. If there is a child-care emergency, please ask for my permission in advance. I will usually allow a persons child to attend class a few times as long as the following conditions are met: 1) The child does not have a contagious illness (a doctors note may be required to ensure this if the child is sick). 2) The child is able to sit quietly for the duration of the class and is not a disruption to other students. Getting Missed Work: Copies of powerpoints, assignments, and course handouts will be available on Canvas and will usually be posted before class. You will be responsible for checking your Canvas account and reading the powerpoint, assignments, and handouts for any day that you missed. You will need to see me for any or other information that you didnt receive. Accessing Course Materials on Canvas: Being able to access and navigate school sites, and being able to post work and communicate with others online, are essential skills for 21st Century teachers. Assignments will be due via Canvas (or other sites where noted). Most course readings, assignments, and other course information (except where otherwise noted) will only be available through Canvas. This means that you will also need to have access to a computer and a reliable internet connection. If you do not have access to a reliable computer or internet connection at home, you will need to plan time to use computers and/or the internet at FLC, at a library, or at other public locations. Turning in Work: All assignments submitted via Canvas must be posted under the assignment, and not as a message or in another assignment or discussion. Work that is not posted correctly will not be graded until the student makes an appointment to show me where they posted their work and gets a lesson on how to post it

correctly. It will be subject to the same policies as unidentified work, which is outlined below. Turning in Work When You are Absent: If you miss a deadline because you were not in class, you should still post the assignment on Canvas. The submission must be time-stamped by the beginning of the class period in order for you to receive credit. Late Work: Please complete assignments by the day they are due, because we will often be using or discussing what we did during class. For late assignments, everyone will get two Give me a break coupons. Each coupon will allow students to turn in all assignments due that day up to a week after the due date. When you submit late work, you must fill out the coupon and paste the coupon to the top of your assignment when you turn it in, so that I know to accept it. Coupons are limited to two per person. Each unused coupon is worth five points of extra credit at the end of the term. Coupons cannot be used for in-class presentations or other verbal or in-class assignments. With the exception of up to two assignments with a Give me a break coupon attached, I will not accept late assignments except possibly through prior arrangement, or in order to accommodate a DOCUMENTED illness or problem (see Contingency Plans). Unidentified work (Work with no name, that is not clearly labeled, or that is turned in incorrectly) All submitted work must be identified with your name. If you submit your work via email (by prior arrangement), or another digital source, it must be identified BOTH with both your LastName_AssignmentTitle_Date as the document title, AND with your name on the actual document. All unidentifiable work will not be graded. Unidentifiable hard copies of students work will be kept in a box in my office. Unidentifiable digital copies (such as those sent through email) will remain ungraded until they are resubmitted in an identifiable form. Work that needs to be graded late because it was unidentifiable will receive a 10% deduction. If you think you did not receive a grade because you might have forgotten to put your name on your paper, you will need to make an appointment to come to my office and see if your work is in the box. Saving Work in the Digital Age: You are responsible for keeping backup copies of all work you submit via Canvas or via any other method in class. Back up your work in at least 3 places: 1) On your own computer if you have one

2) On a hard drive of flash drive 3) In the cloud in a program such as Google Drive, Dropbox, etc., OR on your FLC M Drive. I do not have my work because my laptop died/ I lost my flash drive/ I couldnt access my files/the computer ate my homework is NOT a valid reason for not having your work. Work which is late for these reasons will be subject to the late work policy outlined above. Computer issues is also not a valid reason for missing class or for coming late. People who are late or absent for technology reasons will be subject to the late and absent policies outlined above. Revisions and Extra Credit: For the sake of fairness, I do not allow students who are behind to do extra credit or make-up work to make up assignments after the due date. But keep an eye out for opportunities extended to the whole class! Disabilities: Fort Lewis College is committed to providing all students a liberal arts education through a personalized learning environment. If you think you have or you do have a documented disability which will need reasonable academic accommodations, please call, Dian Jenkins, the Coordinator of Disability Service, 280 Noble Hall, 247-7459, for an appointment as soon as possible. Please see me if you need help contacting Disability Services. Academic Integrity: Candidates of the Teacher Education Program are required to adhere to professional standards and ethics in their academic work and field study experience. Professional behaviors and actions include but are not limited to the following examples: Candidates academic work must reflect integrity and honesty (see Academic Honesty below). Candidates are expected to come to all classes and school placements in a physical and mental state that allows them to participate. Please remember that not all medications (legal or otherwise) are appropriate to take before an academic course or a field study in a school. Candidates should practice collegial and professional communication during their classes and placements (i.e. using appropriate language, listening to and valuing other points of view, no put-downs, gossiping, etc.) Particularly during field studies, candidates are expected to dress appropriately for the professional roles of the teachers they are becoming. When you are in a school, dress as well or better than the teachers you are working with. The candidates field study logs must be an accurate, valid, and concise representation of the time spent participating in field study experience.

Academic Honesty: Plagiarism is defined as using other peoples words or ideas without citing them as a source. Please remember that among other things, plagiarism includes using fragments from other works, replacing words with their synonyms, calling other teachers lesson plan ideas your own, and using images, drawings, logos, styles, designs, or any other form of intellectual property without citation. Plagiarism can also involve inappropriate collaboration, such as turning in work that uses words, ideas, images, etc. that are taken from classmates without citation when the assignment calls for individual work. At the college level, plagiarism can have serious consequences, including course failure or expulsion from the school. In this course, the first plagiarized student work will receive a failing grade for the assignment. The second will result in failure of the course. Any plagiarized assignment will be reported to the FLC Office of Academic Affairs, which may consider a range of consequences including failure of the class and disciplinary hearings within FLC. If a students assignment seems to have similarities to another work that most likely go beyond coincidence, I will ask the student to discuss her/his work with me, and all or part of the grade may be based on this oral defense. There are easy ways to avoid plagiarism: 1) For work such as reading questions, do your own work. Do not loan it to other people, let them look at it, or leave it in a public place. 2) When youre writing a paper or a lesson plan, cite your sources! Include parenthetical or footnote and works cited list citations for anything you use from anywhere else, including images, methods, ideas, phrases, and quotations. Teaching is a collaborative profession, and it is common to borrow methods, ideas, and materials from other teachers. But document when you borrowed something and where you borrowed it from. And clearly, a lesson plan that is entirely borrowed from another source wont be acceptable if a lesson plan communicating YOUR ideas was required by the assignment. If you need help learning how to cite sources, please come get help from me. Allergy request: I have a severe allergy to fish. Its a contact allergy, which means the reaction happens if fish is even in the room or nearby! So please do not bring anything with fish in your breakfast/lunch if you want to eat it in class. OK fish: shellfish (shrimp, crab, lobster, scallops, etc) and tuna. Not OK fish: anything else, particularly salmon and trout. Even calamari. This means no sushi (except vegetarian), lox, fish sticks, salmon burgers, salmon chunks in a salad, trout fillets from your fishing trip. . . you get the idea. I know its weird, and sometimes a pain, and I really appreciate your help. Contingency Plans:

If you experience or anticipate any emergency during the term that will affect your course work or attendance, please arrange a personal conference with me so that we can determine necessary accommodations. Please bring collaborating documentation, such as a note from your doctor, to provide evidence of your extenuating circumstances. If you are having personal problems with me, the course, other people in the course, or life problems that affect your course work, please dont suffer in silence. Be a proactive communicator and come discuss the issue with me so that we can make the course a positive learning experience for you. If you are unable to discuss the issue with me, you can contact Richard Fulton, the Teacher Education Department Chair, at 970-247- 7150 or fulton_r@fortlewis.edu