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Through coursework in the ITEC program, I
was able to learn to use a variety of programs. Each of these projects
represent an educational application of technology.
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In the
Selection and Utilization of Educational Media
course, assignments did not just involve students creating media to use in
the classroom, but also instructed the class on how to evaluate
instructional media. Two examples of media analysis are the
textbook visual
design critique, the
website visual
design critique, and the
video appraisal.
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Another assignment involved creating an
ASSURE lesson
plan. ASSURE stands for Analyze learners, State
objectives, Select methods, media, and materials, Utilize
media and materials, Require learner participation, and Evaluate
and revise. Essentially this assignment involved how to create a
lesson to effectively integrate the use of educational media into a lesson
with active learner involvement.
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For this course, I also needed to design
a newsletter home page for an organization, school club, or sports team.
I made a page for the
Mentor High
Science Club's Disney field trip. This site shows the use of Front
Page and incorporates an online
gallery of photos and other photographic elements throughout the
site.
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Inspiration software is a
graphic organizer program. It works well for creating charts and
organizing content. In the final exam, I needed to explain the roles
of the school media specialist. Inspiration allowed me to arrange the
information graphically online:
available here.
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For
Current
Issues in Instructional Technology,
I also used Inspiration to create a
chart. This
diagram
about the use of computers in the school compares and contrasts placing
computers in classrooms versus creating a computer lab for an entire
school's classes to use.
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In the
Computer Applications in Education
course, Microsoft Excel was used to create a series of charts, showing data
from State of Ohio's
School Report
Card. In my charts, I needed to compare various data from 14
different districts in 5 charts:
available
here. For another assignment for this course, I needed to use the
same data again to create a
database query.
This was created using Microsoft Access.
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Another assignment involved using screen
shots, Adobe Photoshop, and Front Page to create a web site that instructs
students on
How to
use Power Point to present school project.
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Finally, in many courses, I needed to
prepare Power Point presentations. One of these was used in three
teacher in-service sessions that I taught at Mentor High last fall:
presentation available here.
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