K-12 Application Software Online

Course Description

This course highlights application software used in the K-12 curriculum. An emphasis is placed on student use and teacher productivity. Teachers will work with integrated application programs and their components, graphics programs, and desktop publishing software to integrate the applications into various curriculum areas.

Objectives

Educators will develop the ability to integrate application software into the curriculum.

• Compare and contrast the ADDIE and ASSURE Models
• Create a lesson plan integrating instructional hardware and software
• Design instructional activities for teachers and K-12 students
• Produce a professional development session based on adult learning theory
• Evaluate various communication tools and instructional design models, evaluate them, and relate them to classroom learning situations
• Incorporate the appropriate skills to conduct a successful mentor activity
• Assess the relevance of various professional journals and organizations, then join the most appropriate
• Revise and implement software, hardware, and website evaluation forms
• Locate and evaluate software appropriate to curriculum area
• Review and critique emerging technologies
• Incorporate emerging technologies into K-12 activities
• Compare and contrast various types of multimedia software
• Generate a digital media piece to promote a specific subject area topic
• Produce and revise multimedia presentations for education settings
• Evaluate the importance of implementing assistive technology to meet the needs of all learners
• Incorporate technology into the curriculum to promote inclusion
• Design activities that incorporate adaptive hardware and software for students and teachers with special needs
• Design online tutorials for students and teachers to use as a lesson or review at least 3 software skills
• Generate activities that will develop K-12 students' abilities to use application software as a tool
• Design activities to assist students in developing the skill to select appropriate application(s) for a given task or problem
• Identify and critique productivity software resources
• Compose educational resources using application programs for professional productivity, word processing, spreadsheets, database, HTML, desktop publishing, Web editors, and others

Curriculum Design & Time Requirements

This course will emphasize integrating application software into the K-12 curriculum and teacher productivity. Students will work with integrated application programs and their components, graphics programs, and desktop publishing software. Modules will be completed one per week. This is an online sixty-hour, three credit graduate level course that is completed over a thirteen-week period.

Hardware & Computer Skill Requirements

Students may use either a Macintosh computer or a PC with Windows 2000 or higher. Students should possess basic word processing skills and have internet access with an active e-mail account. Students also are expected to have a basic knowledge of how to use a Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, Mozilla Firefox etc.

Course Materials

The required text for this course is Teacher Centered Professional Development by Gabriel Diaz-Maggioli (2004). The textbook and an extensive Recommended Reading List will be provided for all students. In addition, online readings and website reviews (including journal articles and best practices from the body of educational research) will be assigned during the course to enhance learning. These readings will be presented as annotated websites within the course content.

Session Outline

Module 1: Instructional Design
Objective: Students will incorporate instructional design models when designing professional development activities.
Contents:

1. Compare and contrast the ADDIE and ASSURE Models.
2. Design and facilitate a professional development session based on either the ADDIE or ASSURE model.

Module 2: Conducting Professional Development
Objective: Students will demonstrate ability to design and facilitate a professional development session based on best practices.
Contents:

1. Plan a professional development session based on adult learning theory.
2. Compare and contrast delivery modes.
3. Design professional developments to develop a community of learning.

Module 3: Mentoring
Objective: Students will plan, model, and critique a mentoring program.
Contents:

1. Outline characteristics of essential mentoring skills, stages, and models.
2. Facilitate a mentoring partnership

Module 4: Importance of Professional Growth
Objective: Students will critique various methods of professional development.
Contents:

1. Review the relevance of various professional journals.
2. Compare and contrast professional organizations and join the most appropriate.

Module 5: Evaluating Technology
Objective: Students will compare and contrast various types of educational technology
Contents:

1. Revise and implement software, hardware, and website evaluation forms.
2. Locate and evaluate software appropriate to curriculum area.

Module 6: Emerging Technologies
Objective: Students will formulate methods to integrate emerging technologies into the K-12 curriculum.
Contents:

1. Review and critique emerging technologies.
2. Incorporate emerging technologies into K-2 activities.

Module 7: Using Digital Media to Make Curriculum Relevant
Objective: Students will design a digital media piece to promote a specific subject area topic.
Contents:

1. Compare and contrast various types of multimedia software including presentation software, Web design, and graphics programs.
2. Generate a digital media piece to promote a specific subject area topic.

Module 8: Inclusion and Technology
Objective: Students will describe the role technology plays in classroom inclusion.
Contents:

1. Recognize importance of implementing assistive technology to meet the needs of all learners.
2. Generate ideas for incorporating technology into the curriculum to promote inclusion.

Module 9: Online Tutorials
Objective: Demonstrate ability to design and create online software tutorials for both students and teachers.
Contents:

1. Critique online tutorials.
2. Design online tutorials for students and teachers to use as a lesson or review at least 3 software skills.

Module 10: Productivity Resources
Objective: Integrate various online and student created materials to create a productivity software resource for teachers.
Contents:

1. Identify and critique productivity software resources.
2. Decide on quality appropriate resources to create a productivity resource for teachers.

Grading

		Assignment	Points			Grading Scale
		Reflections	30			100 - 93	A
		Professional Development Session	100			92 - 85	B
		Mentor/Mentee Partnership	50			84 - 77	C
		Software Evaluations	50
		Digital Media Piece	100
		Online Tutorials & Productivity Resources	100
		Total Points	430

Student Academic Integrity

Participants guarantee that all academic class work is original. Any academic dishonesty or plagiarism (to take ideas, writings, etc. from another and offer them as one's own), is a violation of student academic behavior standards as outlined by our partnering colleges and universities and is subject to academic disciplinary action.

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