Week 5

Advanced Organizer:   

1.  Two-minute write-  "Explain one idea from Chapter 5 that the authors gave on using the word processor as a tool to enhance student writing/communication."  If you did not read the chapter, write "I did not come prepared for class today" and leave it at that.

2.  Home Team Discussion-  Team member leads discussion. Word Processing as a communication tool.



3.  Take the Copyright Quiz at the following site, then check your answers. 
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/p/peachj/edte230/copyright/quiz.htm



4.  Nick Lux provides these sites to illustrate current uses and issues of Creative Commons in the music domain.

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/03/nine-inch-nails.html

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8476


Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org    Click on About        Click on license



5.  Antiplagiarism Tactics:  http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm
Write About:
Strategies of Awareness    Strategies of Prevention     Strategies of Detection



6.  Unit Topic:    Individually discuss your unit plan topic and content ideas with your instructor while others work on the edtech and resources pages.

7.  To get into your Z drive: 
Finder:   GO menu,  Connect to server,   Opal  connect   Type in your username and password.
Find the first letter of your username  Open
Find your name
Open the Web folder
Find resources.html - hold RIGHT mouse button down- OPEN WITH NETSCAPE   
FILE >  EDIT PAGE.


To your resources.html
Word Processing and Communication
•    add a specific idea for using a word processor and writing in your unit plan.
•    add any ideas you have from last week's reading and discussion on using technology in the classroom.
•    add your idea for Indian Education project to your xxideas.html page.
SAVE > REPLACE

To your edtech.html page:
In your Z drive web folder, find edtech.html, hold RIGHT mouse-button down- OPEN WITH NETSCAPE   
FILE >  EDIT PAGE.

1.    Copyright and FairUse Resources (week 5)
 2.    Antiplagiarism (week 5)
 SAVE > REPLACE
Student Publications--
A different way to have students report their learning is through use of a publication that students create.  To enhance student learning you must design the lesson to ensure that students are collecting, manipulating, researching, and analyzing appropriate information and not focussing on the "bells and whistles" of the technology.
  See Intel CD  has many samples.

Intel CD-  Sample Portfolios >  Unit Plan

Intel CD-  Click on Index. Go down a short bit to in brochures--Publications.  You will see a chart with samples.  Examine a few with brochures-- these are created by the students.


Do This!   Assignment #5b- 15 points  Double-sided brochure  Due next week Publication tool for learning: learn to use a brochure template.  The content of your own publication-- Legal and Ethical Issues. The audience to write for is your students and their parents.
•    Information about the major legal, ethical, and social issues of internet use in education.
•    Antiplagiarism strategies and web resources.
•    Useful information on Copyright and Creative Commons
•    What students need to know about Fairuse
•    Add an image
•    Anything else you want to make the complete brochure- double-sided.

Home-teams help each other individually create a brochure using the templates in Word.
1. Open a brochure template in MSWord, work with text blocks, move images and text blocks, download an image from the internet, etc.
2. Print your publication as a double-sided document--- Discuss with your team how this can be done by the classroom teacher!
3.  Individuals bring two double-sided copies of your brochure to class next week.