Technology Education Program Area

Math, Science and Technology Education

School of Educational Teaching and Learning

Spring Quarter, 2006

Wednesdays 4:30 - 7:18 P.M.

Dr. Paul E. Post

1100 Kinnear Road, Suite 100

292-7471 office - 799-0086 home

E-mail Address: Post.1@osu.edu

Web Address: http://www.teched.coe.ohio-state.edu/

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Course Description/Rationale:
The purpose of this course will be to provide preservice and inservice teachers with information and skills relative to teaching about and using communication systems. The course will introduce a wide variety of multimedia tools and allow teachers to select several skills to purse in more depth. The tools are constantly changing but some of the areas included are text, graphics, animation, presentation, audio, video, and multimedia authoring.

Relationship to Other Courses:
This course differs from similar courses in that this course will deal specifically with multimedia tools and their usage in mathematics, science and technology education. Understanding the underlying technology is an important component. The curriculum of this course focuses on the goals set forth by the Council of Technology Teacher Educators through NCATE, the Standards for Technological Literacy adopted by the International Technology Education Association, and the Ohio Technology Academic Content Standards.

Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions

Each student should be able to:

1. Describe media available to educators and the pros and cons of each media type in educational settings.
2. Evaluate a multimedia program.
3. Convert messages from analog media to digital media and vice versa.
4. Produce messages in the following media; audio, video, animation, graphics, and text.
5. Choose and combine appropriate media to convey messages teaching about technology.
6. Produce an interactive message using a combination of media.
7. Store messages produced on audio and video tape, a web server, DVD, and a CD.
8. Effectively locate resources on the WWW.
9. Participate in Internet based discussions.

Off Campus Field Experiences:
Although this course will not have specific off-campus field experience as an assignment, it is expected that teachers will share how they are using multimedia in their work.

Diversity:
Inherent in the content of the course is the need to address instruction for all students. Assignments will focus on communicating messages to all students and their diverse needs.

Technology:
As a part of their experiences in this class, students will be required to use a variety of multimedia technologies.

Student's Goals:
You should have in mind applications of multimedia that you would like to pursue from either the perspective of teaching the application to your students or using the application to improve your instruction, or both.

Required Texts

• American Association of School Librarians and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. (1998). Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning:  Standards and Indicators. Chicago:  American Library Association. Available at http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/informationpower/InformationLiteracyStandards_final.pdf
• International Society for Technology in Education. (2000). National Educational Technology Standards for Students:  Connecting Curriculum and Technology.  Eugene, OR: Author. Available at http://cnets.iste.org/students/s_book.html
• International Society for Technology in Education. (2000). National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers:  Preparing Teachers to Use Technology.  Eugene, OR: Author. Available at http://cnets.iste.org/students/s_book.html
• Technology for All Americans Project. (2000). Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology. Reston, VA: International Technology Education Association. Available at http://www.iteaconnect.org/TAA/Publications/STL/STLMainPage.htm.
• Technology for All Americans Project. (2003). Advancing Excellence in Technological Literacy: Student Assessment, professional development, and program standards. Reston, VA: International Technology Education Association. Available at http://www.iteaconnect.org/TAA/Publications/AETL/AETLMainPage.htm.
• Ohio Technology Academic Content Standards - Available at http://www.ode.state.oh.us/academic_content_standards/acstechnology.asp

Calendar and Topical Outline

Course Requirements/Evaluation:

This course may be repeated so the assignments can be tailored to suit the learners needs. Below are two possible ways of completing the course. Each learner should complete a learning contract detailing the expectations for their desired grade.

Materials Available in Another Formats

Any student who feels s/he may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately to discuss your specific needs. Please contact the Office for Disability Services at 614-292-3307 in room 150 Pomerene Hall to coordinate reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. Their web site is http://www.ods.ohio-state.edu.

Academic Misconduct

• Faculty Rule 3335-5-54, which states, "Each instructor shall report to the Committee on Academic Misconduct all instances of what they believe may be academic misconduct" will be followed.
• Academic misconduct includes substituting another person's work as your own, either in written or product form.

Selected References

• Multimedia Educational Materials - http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Faculty/bsmith/mmsyl.htm
• Indext to Multimedia Information Sources - http://viswiz.gmd.de/MultimediaInfo/
• Multimedia Developers Handbook - http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/handbook/
• Multimedia Development Tools - http://mime1.marc.gatech.edu/MM_Tools/
• EVALUATION OF INTERNET SEARCHING AND SEARCH ENGINES - http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/engineering/evaluate.shtml

Choosing a Digital Camera - http://www.shortcourses.com/choosing/contents.htm