1 - INTRODUCTION



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|(1) Record Keeping: Teachers have a professional responsibility to monitor, record and communicate student progress. Many schools |

|and districts have adopted networked grading systems, and some publish grades on secure websites. |

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|Use a your school's gradebook program to develop a report for a real or hypothetical class of ten or more students who are assessed|

|on five or more assignments. Submit a printout of your gradebook and the detailed report card (progress report) for an individual |

|student. If you do not have access to such a program, you may use Gradekeeper or download a sample shareware "gradebook" program. |

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|(2) Assessment: Teachers must regularly assess student progress. Many textbook publishers make test construction easier by |

|providing test generators, software which allows the teacher to quickly compose tests and keys from question databases. Test |

|generators allow the teacher to input questions, and often provide databases of questions the teacher can select from. *TPE-tip A |

|well-structured exam may be used as an artifact for TPE3, Interpretation and Use of Assessments. |

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|Use a test generator to construct an exam composed of questions you have selected from existing question banks. |

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|Software such as Examview allows teachers to develop tests and post them on the Internet. Take this short physics quiz generated |

|with the Examview, or this geology quiz made with Quizmaker. Include a screen capture of your score (actual score is |

|inconsequential) and discuss the benefits and problems associated with online testing. |

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It is a quick way to take a multiple choice test. And you can add open ended problems to be graded by yourself later.

|(3) Communication: Students benefit when teachers clearly state their expectations in written form. When these expectations are |

|availalbe on the Internet, all students and parents can benefit, particularly students who have been absent. A variety of |

|commercial resources exist with which teachers can post calendars, homework assignments, and other important documents. |

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|Put your class assignments on the web at Yourhomework , SchoolNotes or similar service. Include a screen capture of your published |

|assignment schedule. |



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*I was having problems taking a picture off of the website so I included the link and a copy of the text.

|(4) Presentations: Presentation software provides teachers the opportunity to display text and graphics in a slide show fashion. |

|PowerPoint and Keynote are two of the most popular presentation tools. Teachers and professors make extensive use of presentations,|

|but many are concerned about the potentially negative effects such presentations can have on instruction. *TPE-tip A well developed|

|educational presentation can serve as an artifact for TPE 4, Making Content Accessible, or TPE 10, Instructional Time, if used with|

|presenter tools. |

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|After reading the articles on the educational use and abuse of presentation software, summarize how presentations should be |

|constructed and delivered to maximize learning and minimize abuse. |

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|Locate and download one or more PowerPoint presentations relevant to your teaching needs. Include the URL of the location from |

|which you obtained them and summarize the PowerPoint and where in your curriculum you will use it. |

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|Make a PowerPoint presentation to teach a lesson in your subject area, keeping in mind the principles you have outlined above and |

|the guidelines provided (see tutorial). Your presentation should include numerous graphics and be at least 10 slides in length. (a)|

|Provide an electronic copy of your presentation (ppt format) on your website. (b) Embed screen captures of your presentation in |

|the template. Make sure the content is easy to read. |

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|Using iPhoto (Mac), Picasa (Windows), or similar slide viewer software, create a photo library for your discipline. You should |

|include photos you have taken plus ones retreived from a graphic search engine. Create two or three slide shows from the library. |

|Include a screen shot of the slide sorter window for one of your shows. Create a photopage for your website. |

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• A PowerPoint presentation should follow logically with the lesson or presentation. It should be easy to follow, have supporting graphics, movies an/or audio (if available), links, and also a link to word so you can take notes while presenting. A large problem with PowerPoint is that people usually add too much information to the PowerPoint presentation. So instead of just adding key points, they put their lesson down word for word making the students copy exactly what the teacher is saying.

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This powerpoint was on cellular respiration. What I found in this presentation was that there was too much information on each slide. They could have spred out some of the information onto more than one slide so that it did’t seem so cluttered. Another problem was the title of the slide was not in a logical location, for most of the slides the title was found on the bottom and not the top. I have encluded a screen shot of one of the slides

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Complete Presentation

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Hawaiian Underwater Sea Life

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Physic of waves Presentation

|(5) Other resources: Complete three of the following, using content related to your curriculum whenever possible. |

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|Use Timeliner to create a timeline relevant to the curriculum you teach. |

|Develop an educational digital video. |

|Construct a professional resume using Word. |

|Develop a concept map with graphics and text. |

|Create a crossword puzzle or other puzzle relevant to your class. |

|Create and conduct an on-line survey form for one of your classes. |

|(a) Find the lowest cost of a specific piece of equipment (projector, computer, digital camera, etc.) for your classroom, (b) |

|identify the next national conference for your discipline, AND (c) determine the best airfare to attend the conference. |

• Construct a professional resume using Word.

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• Create a crossword puzzle or other puzzle relevant to your class

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• Create and conduct an on-line survey form for one of your classes.

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(6) DVD: Develop a lesson using a computer-based DVD-player that includes bookmarks and video clips to access speficic scenes.

Itentify the DVD and explain why you chose this for a lesson.

Include a screen capture showing your catalog of bookmarks and video clips.

Describe how the scan fast, scan slow, step, mute, bookmark, video clip, and screen size features can be used to enhance your lesson.

• Quiksilver’s Young Guns II – I chose this DVD because if I was teaching a lesson on physics and the topic of waves was being taught, then this would be a great fun movie for the kids to watch and there are a lot of examples of waves

• I was not able to take a screen shot because my screen capture program is disabled while the DVD program is running for copywriter protection

• It is nice to be able to bookmark sections of the DVD so that you don’t have to fast forward through parts that don’t go with the lecture. Also you can mute, which is nice if you are using a video like the one I used, to get rid of unnecessary music in the background that might catch the students’ attention over your lecture.

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