CSCI 1303: Essential Computing Skills - Spring 2008
Technology in Education

 

Mrs. Ruth Jungman

rjungman@trinity.edu
ruthj@ahisd.net

Office hours: Wednesdays, 3:45-5:00 pm
Halsell 201N (see Halsell)

Teaching Assistant: Miriam Sitz

msitz@trinity.edu
phone: 210-635-3119

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Topics 
Assignments & References

1/16

1

Course overview, expectations, materials, syllabus

Using TLEARN Moodle

Computer Ethics / Acceptable Use Policies

Creating your CS1303 Blog

Computer Security

Class Wiki

ITS Frequently Asked Questions

Readings:

Time's Person of the Year: You
ITS-Student Resources
Computer Security
Lab Profile Information
Identity Theft (all links)
Phishing, email scams
Spyware Basics
Code of Ethics for Computing (entire page)
How Computer Viruses Work
Understanding the Differences from ITS

Setup your network drives and download the appropriate version of MS Office for your computer

Take the Texas Teacher Technology Competencies Checklist

Blog assignment | Ethics assignment

1/23

2

Tour of ITS server room
Networks and networking

Ethics/AUP

Using Word 2007 - creating tutorials; adding to Wiki

Word 2007 Tutorial
Drawing Shapes in Word 2007

Readings: Network from Webopedia - follow the links
How Fiberoptics Work - intro. through advantages
see TLEARN for assignments
How to Bring our Schools out of the 20th Century

1/30

3

Copyright and Fair Use

Copyright information from the Trinity Library

A Fair(y) Use Tale

Continue working with Word 2007: formatting; tables; columns/sections; graphics

Web 2.0

Citing Sources:

An Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use - take the quiz and save the chart

Tips for Teaching Kids to Respect Copyrights

2/6

4

No class meeting; online activities  

2/13

5

Copyright review
Acquiring information and graphics

Benjamin Harris, Reference Librarian:
research and evaluating information

Meaningful projects for today's students/accuracy

bibme - web2.0 bibliography maker
Evaluating webpages from UC-Berkeley
Evaluating electronic information fromTrinity

See TLEARN for all assignments

2/20

6

Webpage eval review
Bits, bytes, memory

Graphics: bits, bytes, memory, pixels, resolution
RAM vs. hard disk
Scanning tips: Pixels
Graphic file types

PowerPoint: the good, the bad, the ugly; meaningful presentations
"Scoring Powerpoints"
Download GIMP for Windows | Mac OS X
Acquiring and managing graphics:
Stock xchange
Flickr | Slideshare
Google’s Picasa | Picnik
Resizing Pictures in MS Word 2007
New Picture Features in Word 2007
Setting Tab Stops in Word 2007
Creating Tables | Formatting Tables
Embedding a YouTube Video in PPT
2/27
7
PPT presentations
Manipulating graphics with GIMP: cropping, resizing, removing red eye, using the clone tool, creating a collage
GIMP Introduction
Creating audio files for podcasts
Scanning images
Excel introduction
Download Wavepad or Audacity
Upload files to the CS server

3/5

8

Podcasting in Education | Education Podcast Network
Podcasting News - K-12 Education | Podcasts from Mabry Middle School | Radio Willoweb
Carrollton-Farmers Branch podcasts

Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
Revised Taxonomy - summarized pdf version
Excel 2007 Tutorial
More Excel Tutorials
Entering formulas in Excel 2007
Creating Charts in Excel 2007


3/12

9
Presentation of Excel teaching activities
Advanced Excel skillls
Midterm activity
Have a safe, happy spring break!

3/19

  Spring Break  

3/26

10

Introduction of course project

Introduction to Web Authoring / HTML

Slideshow "movies" - PhotoStory / iPhoto

HTML Tutorial
HTML Cheat Sheet

Good and Bad Web Design Features

PhotoStory 3 for Windows - download | PhotoStory Tutorial

Download and install MS Expression Web for PC from \\tucc-tiger\software

4/2

11

Web authoring using MS Expression Web

Rubrics and rubric generators:
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html

Download and install MS Expression Web for PC from \\tucc-tiger\software
Expression Web Tutorials
Learn Expression

Webpage assignment

4/9 12

Review student websites

Advanced ExpressionWeb

Video production

PSA example from Apple exchange
Storyboards for video production
Moviemaker tutorials | iMovie '06 Tutorial | iMovie '08 Tutorials

4/16

13

Review PSA videos

Introduction to databases - MS Access 2007

Access 2007 in Pictures

MS Access2007 Help and How-To

Databases in the classroom

Hot Potatoes software

 

Course project discussions

An embedded database. 

Zoho creator databases

4/23 14 Databases cont'd
Uses of databases in education

Webpage techniques con'td: linking documents, using image maps

Other useful applications: Google Earth, Google SketchUp

Course Project rubric on TLEARN

Databases in the classroom

Google Earth and SketchUp ideas - Earth Day

Google LitTrips

 

4/30 15 Course Project presentations