1 - INTRODUCTION



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|(1) Focus of your portfolio: The goal of SED 514 is to equip teachers with technical and pedagogical skills to enhance teaching and|

|learning. You will prepare a 514-portfolio (electronic or paper) of your work, illustrating how computer technologies can be used |

|to improve the teaching and learning of a particular unit within your discipline. By the time you are done with this class, you |

|will have collected and developed resources that will benefit you and your students. Please note that many of the activities in |

|this portfolio may be also used as artifacts for your professional teaching portfolio (PDP) . |

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|Complete the title page of the portfolio that includes you’re a photograph of you, your name, school, subject taught, and topic for|

|portfolio. |

|Identify the subject and topic for which your 514-portfolio will be developed. Briefly describe the significance of this topic with|

|respect to your curriculum. |

|Name |Subject taught |topic(s) for portfolio |

|Fatema Baldiwala |English Language and Literature |Writing: |

| |Fall 2007 Semester I am expected to teach: |Narrative Writing, Expository writing, |

|Currently Student Teaching at Nobel Middle |Narrative writing and Expository Writing |essays, summaries, research reports and |

|School, 8Th Grade. |Research reports and research papers |research papers |

| |Essays |Grammar |

|[pic] |Summaries |Nouns, Sentence structures, punctuation |

| |Roll of Thunder Hear my cry By Mildred |Literature |

| |Taylor |Poetry, short stories |

| |An introduction to poetry |Speech |

| | |Debates and oral presentations |

|(2) Documenting your work with screen capture: Screen capture programs allow the user to take pictures of anything on their screen |

|and save them as graphics files. Download a screen capture program for your home computer and use it to take pictures of items |

|required in this portfolio. |

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|Demonstrate competency with a screen-capture utility by inserting a .jpg file of keyboard shortcuts, contextual help menu, of the |

|operating system you are using. Note that virtually all programs and operating systems have help menus and keyboard shorcuts. |

|Consult these electronic help menus when you need to know how to perform a particular operation. |

|(3) Backing-up and transporting your files: Always backup your files!!! You can: (a) save them on USB drive or portable hard drive,|

|(b) upload (ftp) them to your CSUN account (uDrive), (c) move them to an Internet hard drive, or (d) send them as attached files |

|accompanying email messages. Do one of the following: |

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|Save your work to your uDrive. The uDrive is an extra storage area that provides additional disk space for campus users who wish to|

|store their desktop files and folders on a remote server. Include a screen capture. |

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|Develop an Internet hard drive using the Yahoo briefcase or similar resource. You can send your files to your Internet hard drive |

|and then retrieve them at home or school. Include a screen capture. |

|(4) Learning about your students. Most secondary school teachers must learn the names of 150-200 students at the beginning of each |

|academic year. This formidable task is made much easier using a photographic seating chart. *TPE-tip Teachers may use photographic |

|seating charts, combined with student information surveys to learn about their students early in the semester (TPE 8). Make certain|

|to check with your school regarding policies for photographing students. |

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|Use a digital camera to make a seating chart for one of the classes you teach or for this class at CSUN. |

My master teacher did not let me photograph the students without permission form the parents. Therefore I made a seating chart of comprised of my two sons and two of their friends.

Seating Chart SED 514

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|UMAIMA |ZAINAB | |UMAIMA |ZAINAB | |

|(5) Searching / Identifying Plagiarism. The ease of information access can accelerate the learning process, but it can also be |

|counter-productive by facilitating plagiarism. Discuss the importance of intellectual honesty with your students and illustrate how|

|you can easily identify work plaigiarized from sites on the Internet. |

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|Using an advanced search engine with Boolean search features (such as Altavista), find text from one of your students or from a |

|website related to your field that appears to be plagiarized. Copy and paste the text and the URLs of both pieces in question. |

|Alternatively, you may wish to use an online plagiarism detection service such as |

We know we are beautiful. And ugly too... If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves."

Plagiarized from:

1. from a Google search

2. From a Altavista search:

|(6) History of computers / graphic search engines. Answer the following questions using information from technology education |

|websites or other online resources. Make certain that all information is in your own words. No credit can be given for information |

|that is identical to that of another student or a web page. |

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|Contributors to the development of the computer: Select five individuals who have made significant contributions to the development|

|of the computer. List the contribution(s) of each individual and briefly describe its importance. See technology education |

|websites. Use a graphic search engine to find pictures of each. |

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|Computer Generations: Computer historians have classified computers into "generations" in an effort to identify the major |

|technological advances upon which the computers are built. Briefly identify the major features of each of the first five |

|generations of computers. See technology education websites. Use a graphic search engine to find pictures of each. |

|Photo |Contributions to the development of computer |

|David Packard (1913-2001) |They first set up in their garage and the fist HP 200A Audio Oscillator was made by hand. They bought|

|[pic] |the cabinets but used aluminum sheets for the panels drilling holes in them, and finally spray |

| |painted and baked it in the oven. Due to growth and needing more space and also because of marriage |

| |they moved to more special premises to an office space near the corner of Page Mill Road and El |

|Bill Hewlett (1912-1996) |Camino Real - two of the better known arteries in Silicon Valley. |

|[pic] |From Oscillators they moved onto the microwave field and the better known HP5100A frequency |

| |synthesizer, which is used in deep space vehicles. Then in the late 1960’s it introduces the first |

| |desktop scientific calculator that is touted as the first personal computer, In the early 70’s it |

| |produces the first laser interferometer. It is then only a short step to introducing the mini |

| |computer which uses 4k dynamic access random memory chips (dram) rather than magnetic cores. Then in |

| |the following years: 1980’s, handheld computers, e-mail, touchscreen pc’s and inkjet printing that |

| |revolutionizes the laser printing industry are some of the new inventions. Finally in the 1990’s and |

| |2000, the personal digital assistant (pda) and the superdome are it’s latest inventions. |

| |Beginning from and oscillator to personal computers, e-mails and servers, pdas, printers, HP has come|

| |a long way and has revolutionized our life style. |

|Jack Kilby |Jack Kilby (1924-2005) |

|[pic] |Invented the integrated circuit in 1958. For this, he won the Nobel physics prize. He changed the |

| |bulky previous model that used glass tubes to making an integrated circuit the size of a paper clip. |

| |The new integrated circuit paved the way for the microchip to be invented. Today every electronic |

| |gadget uses Jack Kilby’s invention from simple vacuums, microwaves to supercomputer. His invention |

| |further paved the way for the cell phone, the hand held music players, the video games, any and all |

| |digital devices. |

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|[pic] |Steve Jobs (1955) |

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| |Founder of Apple computers and the NeXT Corporation, we have to thank him for the making the computer|

| |people friendly. After several failed attempts at finding a computer that was both cheap and user |

| |friendly, he invented the Macintosh, a very user-friendly computer, with its mouse, icons, and pop-up|

| |menus. He is also the founder of Pixar Corporation, which revolutionized television animation |

| |programming. |

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| |Robert Metcalfe (1946) |

| |While working at Xerox, PARC, he invented Ethernet in 1973. Ethernet is a method with which to |

| |network over computers over short distances. We have to thank him for our ability to network over |

| |computers. |

|[pic] |Tim Berners-Lee |

| |He expanded the simple networking form: Ethernet, the system that Rober Metclafe had made He invented|

| |the html (HyperText Markup Language), where a person with other people by combining their knowledge |

| |in a global web of hypertext documents. He also invented the URL (Uniform Resource Locator). . The |

| |URL allows a person to view a site by sending a query or following a link form a browser. He expanded|

| |simple networking into what we know today as the World Wide Web, connecting people all over the world|

| |and turning us into a global village. |

|gen-eration |Photo of key component |Features |

|First |[pic] |These were so huge they would take entire rooms. They used magnetic drums. These |

|1940-1946: | |computers could solve only one problem at a time and used a machine language to operate. |

|Vacuum Tubes | |This computer used punched cards and paper tape as input and made printouts as output. |

| | |These computers were not really for commercial use. |

|Second | |Similar to the above in the sense they still used punched cards and paper tapes as input |

|1956- 1963 | |and printouts as output. The major difference is that they were smaller and did not take |

|Transisters | |up as much room. From the previous magnetic drums they now used magnetic core |

| | |technology. However like their predecessor they too would get over heated and were prone |

| | |to mechanical breakdowns. |

| | |However they were more sophisticated in the language they used and moved from a binary, |

| | |machine language to a more high level symbolic language like COBOL and FORTRAN. |

| | |Programmers could now specify instructions in words. These computers were mostly |

| | |developed for the atomic energy industry. They also stored their instructions in their |

| | |memory. |

|Third |[pic] |The Integrated Circuit revolutionizes these generations of computers. Transistors were |

|1964-1971: | |placed on silicon chips and semiconductors. Speed and efficiency were the keywords. |

|Integrated | |Instead of the old punched card output, keyboards and monitors were used. Now an user |

|Circuit | |could work on different applications at once, with a central program that monitored the |

| | |memory. These computers were for mass use and the computer became a tool for the ordinary|

| | |man. |

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|Fourth | |Computers could now fit into your palm. Thousands of integrated circuits could be now |

|1971-present: | |fitted onto a single silicon chip and could do all the functions of a traditional |

|Microprocessor| |computer; like a central processing unit, memory, input and output. IBM, Apple and Intel |

|s | |used the microprocessor to make home computers. Also, in this generation the |

| | |microprocessors moved away from being used solely in home computers to other electronic |

| | |devises. As these computers became more sophisticated, they could be linked together to |

| | |form networks, which eventually led to the development of the Internet. |

|Fifth | |These computers are based on artificial intelligence. They are still in the process of |

|Present and | |being developed. An example of this generation of computing is voice recognition. What |

|Beyond: | |these generation of computers hope to do is use quantum computation, molecular and |

|Artificial | |nanotechnology to develop devices that are capable of learning an d self organization. |

|Intelligence | | |

|(7) Making computers accessible to students: Given the importance of computers in business and society, it is important that we |

|provide students who have special needs access via specialized software and hardware. Describe three data input or output devices, |

|or three OS or software options that may be used to make computers more accessible to students with specific physical handicaps. |

|*TPE-tip If you have students with special needs in your class, you may wish to develop lesson plans illustrating how you have made|

|your curriculum accessible to them using adaptive hardware and/or software. (TPE4) |

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|Experiment with the universal access features associated with your computer's operating system and research third-party hardware |

|and software solutions for those with special needs. Describe three hardware or software solutions and explain how they may help |

|students with specific special needs. |

1. Voice Over

This is a system by which a visually handicapped person can learn to use a computer. Voice over reads aloud the contents of your documents, with a different one for each function, and gives a description of your workspace. It also recognizes your commands and works accordingly. With this technology one will be able to create and edit documents, send e-mail, browse over the net and even play games.

I also believe it is also the perfect tool for the elderly who have not taken keyboarding classes and who would like to use the computer and the net.

2. Zoom.

Below is a poem by Langston Hughes on normal Times Roman 12. When I have a class of 40 students and if I have students with visual handicaps I can use the zmm feature to enlarge it. I have enlarged it 400% using the zoom feature.

Before zooming it:

Dreams

by Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

After enlarging it 400% times using the zoom feature:

3. Foreign language recognition software:

If I have students who do not speak English I could have software that recognizes their mother tongue and converts their sentences into grammatically correct English. Thus teaching them the English language.

|(8) Computer knowledge. Teachers should be conversant with computer terminology and concepts that pertain to the use of technology |

|in their classrooms. |

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|Review the list of computer terms and concepts for educators and then take this online quiz. Retake the quiz until you understand |

|the terms and concepts and score 90% or better. Include a screen shot of your first and final test results. *TPE-tip If you have |

|access to an online test-generation system such as WebCT, Blackboard, or Quizmaker, you may wish to develop online self-quizes for |

|your students. (TPE2, TPE3) |

First attempt at Quiz: Total score of 13 correct

Final Score 25/30

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