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Western Oregon University Division of Teacher Education CSE 624: Internet for Educators Fall Term 2012 Online This syllabus is subject to adjustment and changes at any time. Instructor: Dr. Gregory Zobel Phone: 503-838-8728 Office: ED 238 Email: zobelg@wou.edu Office Hours: Wed 9-11 am, W 1-4 pm, and by arrangement.*
*I make every effort to be available to students. You are welcome to drop by my office if you have questions or need to talk to me. I am also happy to schedule appointments, in-person, via Skype, Google+, or Gmail Chat at mutually convenient times for you and me to meet. Communication between students and faculty is important. Please keep me informed if for some reason you are experiencing difficulties with the class and I will do my best to work with you to overcome them.
Teaching
Philosophy:
Learning is one of the most exciting processes and experiences on the planet. My role is to purposefully and meaningfully guide you through a dizzying array of information, media, resources, tools, experiences, and opinions to abet your developing the skills, insights, theories, and perspectives you need to optimally employ technology to support your educational mission and goals. I also hope to help sustain and grow your passion for learning, teaching, writing, and research.
Course
Description:
ED 624: Internet for Educators (3) Course will relate to a number of topics/issues germane to the use of Internet technologies in schools/classrooms/media centers. Students will become knowledgeable about the practical, theoretical and philosophical implications of using the Internet in education.
Required
Texts
There are no required texts for this course. All materials will be provided to you either via download or hyperlink to other sites.
Learning
Goals
Understand existing internet and technology related standards.
Learning
Objectives
The student will be able to (TSWBAT) understand, recognize, and apply NETS-S standards to resources, activities, and articles during course work; TSWBAT understand, recognize, and apply NETS-T standards to resources, activities, and articles during course work; TSWBAT compare and contrast NETS-S and NETS-T standards; TSWBAT create, maintain, and generate content for a WordPress blog or site; TSWBAT constructively comment on and respond to colleagues blogs; TSWBAT intelligently discuss how the internet impacts communication;
Participate as a public intellectual in the blogosphere. Understand and discuss how the internet has impacted
[ZOBEL/ CSE 624/ FALL 2012] 3 key aspects of education and daily life. TSWBAT intelligently discuss how the internet impacts collaboration; TSWBAT intelligently discuss privacy and security concerns related to the internet; TSWBAT intelligently discuss copyright and Creative Commons concerns related to the internet; TSWBAT intelligently discuss Digital Citizenship and the internet; TSWBAT intelligently discuss the internets impact on accessing primary source materials; TSWBAT intelligently discuss how virtualization is and will continue to impact education; TSWBAT write an evaluation of their own technological skill sets and learning gaps; TSWBAT will identify what learning outcomes they met or did not meet in this course TSWBAT productively evaluate this course to make sure it meets the stated Learning Goals and Learning Objectives.
Demonstrate an understanding of technology trends. Develop a realistic awareness of personal technological abilities.
The
Deliverables
Deliverables in this course fall in to three categories. First, there are writing responses to readings and videos you watched. The goal is to think about and integrate some of the ideas you are exposed to in to your own experience and consider how this information may impact your teaching, reading, writing, personal, and professional lives. The second category is resource sharing. While it is easy to discuss and think about the theory or potentials of collaboration or public domain video, it is more useful to go out and find resources that you or others can use in your classroom(s), work environments, or professional development. A major goal of this course
Course
Management
Class
Assignments
and
Expectations;
No
Late
Work
Accepted
Complete assigned readings and explore relevant resources weekly. It is useful to read, explore, and connect with sites, ideas, thinkers, and activities that are not listed for this coursedoing so builds your personal understanding, develops your grasp of the larger techno-educational contexts, and prepares you to actively write, post, and respond to issues these readings raise. Simply cranking out a single draft or posting thoughts off of the top of your head is not best practice, nor will it earn you the grade that you are capable of earning. Brainstorm, draft, revise, pause, revise, and THEN post. The blog posts and comments in this class are not meant to be final drafts, but they are not meant to be first drafts either. All of your posted, public writing should be thoughtful and decently organized content that addresses the prompt and/or readings and shows respect for the reader and author. All assignments are due on the date listed. NO EXCEPTIONS. Late work is NOT accepted. Why? If you show up late for an interview a day late, if you submit your contracted publication a week late, or if you go to see the World Cup a month late you will face the same result: people will be confused, upset, or unwilling to work with you. Deadlines exist for a reason.
Technology
Problems
Technology is NOT an excuse to miss deadlines. You should always have a backup: hard drive, cloud based, or thumb drive. Have at least two back-up plans in case your computer decides to crash. As an educational technologist in training, it is your responsibility and duty to determine multiple workarounds and solutions for when technology goes wild or weird. Why? Technology does strange things at very inconvenient times. For example, I wrote part of this original syllabus on a borrowed
[ZOBEL/ CSE 624/ FALL 2012] 5 computer, I store files in Gmail and at DropBox, and I know that if the university network goes down (which it did two terms ago) that I can go to Koyotes off campus to get WiFi. Back up plans, data storage, and working devices are all important. If you literally live, like some of our students do, in the Alaskan Bush, or if there is only one hard line for data in/out of your area, let me know at the start of the term. Alerting me to potential problems ahead of time makes it much easier on all of us if an event occurs.
Assessment
Methods
Grading
It is possible to earn 1,000 points in this class. Grades (%) A 930-1,000 A900-920 B+ 880-890 B 830-870 B800-820 C+ 780-790 C 730-770 C700-720 D 600-690 F below 600
Course Grade
Assignment
NETS, Communication, & Collaboration response Writing Response: Privacy/Security Writing Response: Digital Citizenship Writing Response: Copyright/CC Primary Sources Article Review 1, Topic a Article Review 2, Topic a Web Resources for Topic a Article Review 1, Topic b Article Review 2, Topic b Web Resources for Topic b Digital Citizenship/Class Engagement Summary Article Review 1, Topic c Article Review 2, Topic c Web Resources for Topic c Futures of Education Self-evaluation
%
(Points)
5% (50) 5% (50) 5% (50) 5% (50) 5% (50) 5% (50) 5% (50) 5% (50) 5% (50) 5% (50) 5% (50) 15% 5% (50) 5% (50) 5% (50) 5% (50) 10% (100)
Week 8: M, Nov 19, 2012 Week 9: M, Nov 26, 2012 Week 9: M, Nov 26, 2012 Week 10: T, Dec 4, 2012 Finals Week: W, Dec 5, 2012 Assignments may be submitted before the due date, but they must be conducted in order.
For more specific information about each of the deliverables, please refer to the Assignment section at the course website.
Online
Discussions
Students are expected to do scheduled readings, respond to prompts by the posted date and time, and then respond to other students and the instructor. Appropriate responses make a substantial contribution to the discussion. Do not simply reply, I like that, good job. Rather, add new ideas of your own, cite views from readings, comment on why you find a particular idea intriguing, or lead us to related articles.
Plagiarism
Policy
Much of the work we do in this class involves using online electronic texts and images as a resource. If you use material you have found online, you are expected to acknowledge the source and, in the case of text, paraphrase as appropriate. If you use another writers words, you must put those words in quotation marks (or use block quote formatting) and formally cite where they came from. If you cut and paste text or any
[ZOBEL/ CSE 624/ FALL 2012] 7 other material without crediting your source, you are plagiarizing. Plagiarism is unethical. If discovered, intentional plagiarists fail.
Class
Calendar
Weeks run from Tuesdays (9/25) through the next Monday (10/1). Please refer to the above Course Grade section or the course WebSite for due dates.
Week
Topics
1 Course Introduction, Self-introduction; NETS, 9/25-10/1 Communication, and Collaboration; Blog Set-up 2 10/2-10/8 Privacy/Security & Digital Citizenship 3 Copyright & Creative Commons 10/9 10/15 Primary Sources 4 10/16 10/22 Article review on first topic 5 Second article review on first topic 10/23 10/29 Web resources for first topic 6 10/30-11/5 Article review on second topic 7 Second article review on second topic 11/6-11/12 Web resources for first topic 8 Article review on third topic 11/13-11/19 Digital Citizenship/Class engagement summary 9 Second article review on third topic 11/20-11/26 Web resources for first topic 10 11/27-12/4 Futures of Education Finals Self-evaluation 12/3-12/7/2012 Detailed descriptions can be found online at the course website. You will also find a document that has a checklist for all of the course assignments for the term.
Assignments
Digital
Citizenship
An essential part of learning and digital citizenship is interacting with others in an intelligent, productive, and meaningful manner. This means interacting with others ideas and giving feedback that moves the discussion forward. Digital citizenship in this class is scored based on your ongoing participation and interaction with others via the blogs. This means you need to go to other students blogs, read their content, and respond. As you do this, be sure that you document your work on the blog comments rubric that is due on 11/19/2012. This is 15% of your grade. Please see the Digital Citizenship page and handout on the course website
Writing
Key to all the writing assignments is several simple principles. Simple does not mean easy. Simple does not mean stupid. Simple does not mean you should dismiss it. (Hint: A rapid way to improve your writing is to acquire and read Rudolf Fleschs The Art of Readable Writing, Fleschs The Art of Plain Talk, or Kelsch & Kelschs Writing Effectively: A Practical Guide.) 1. Respect your reader. a. Use accessible academic English and clear writing. b. Assume they are intelligent, inquisitive, and critical thinkers like you. c. Be engaging, i.e. do not bore us. 2. Support your claims. a. Respect your reader by showing roughly where the information came from. b. Respect your reader by summarizing the work for themdont make the reader work through the quotes that you should work through. 3. Have something to say. Make a point and connect the dots. a. All of this content is interesting, and it all addresses multiple issues in which most of the public is concerned and invested. This is an easy conversation to join, and it is a conversation to which you can make a valuable contribution. This means thinking and drafting before you writebe very clear about what you want to say. Say it well when you say it. Make a point, and then move on to your next point. Before you close, remember to connect all of the dots. Do not assume your reader will get it just because it seems obvious to you. Instead, your post, your writing, your argument should make the point so obvious that the reader is led to it.
Assignments
Location:
You will find specific assignment descriptions online for each week online at the website. You will also find a document that has a checklist for all of the course assignments for the term. This should enable you to plan for the term.