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Department:	Name of Course:	Catalog Number:
Education	Curriculum Theory & Development	ED500

Pre-requisite:

Admission to the Post-baccalaureate Teacher Certification Program.

Course Objectives:

1. Develop an Understanding of the uses of Microsoft Office in Education

2. Integrating the Internet in Curriculum

3. Understanding and Review of Educational Software

Methods of Student Evaluation:

15 Points Develop a 12 slide PowerPoint Presentation

25 Points Develop a "Top 20" Internet site listings in your discipline

25 Points Class Participation

20 Points Sending and receiving e-mail

15 Points Software Review

Explanation of Assignments:

E-mail Exercise - Demonstrate your competency of e-mail by sending an e-mail with a Microsoft Word attachment. In the Word attachment provide a short introduction to yourself (where you work, what you do, what your educational goal is, what your career goal is, and your computer experience). This assignment is due June 9.

Top 20 Internet Sites - Develop a listing of the BEST Internet sites for curriculum in the discipline you will be teaching (art, language arts, science, math, social studies, etc.) The assignment should be typed in Microsoft Word and sent electronically as an attachment to Ldibi@caldwell.edu. A hard copy should also be handed in on June 30. Visit this site to help you create a rubric to differentiate good websites http://edtech.sandi.net/rubric/

Example of Style for Internet Assignment

Site Address Name of Site Explanation of Site

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org ArtsEdge

A cooperative agreement between the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performaing Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. It combines an online magazine, a collection of What's New in Arts Education, resources for developing curricular activities that link national and state standards, and a Cafe for sharing information, ideas, and problem solving with colleagues.

PowerPoint Presentation - Develop 12 Powerpoint slides utilizing animation, clipart, sounds, and other features of the program. This exercise should be used as a vehicle for the presentation of your curriculum developed in the other segments of the course. The assignment should be printed out so three slides appear on each page. Due July 21.

Software Evaluation - Preview five pieces of educational software and complete the evaluation distributed in class. Due July 21.

Course Outline:

Saturday, June 2 Intro to Microsoft Word & Intro to e-mail Chapters 2, 3, & 11

Saturday, June 9 Internet & Microsoft Excel (spreadsheets) Chapters 6 & 12

Saturday, June 16 Integrating the Internet into the Curriculum Chapter 8

Saturday, June 30 Educational Software Evaluation Multimedia Chapters 7 & 8

Saturday, July 14 Microsoft PowerPoint (Presentation Software) Chapter 9

Saturday, July 21 Powerpoint Presentation & Software Reviews due.

Required Texts and Supplementary Readings:

Bring One Zip disc to class to store all information.

1. Computer Education for Teachers, Third Edition. Sharp, McGraw Hill.

2. The Best Web Sites for Teachers, Fourth Edition, 2001. Sharp, Sharp, & Levine.