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Consult the course calendar for information about readings and projects due This is my eighth year as a faculty member here at Eastern Michigan University. We've got outstanding students, a wonderful group of faculty and a nice facility--I'm enjoying my time here. Before coming to Eastern, I worked as a student teacher supervisor and grad student at the University of Michigan (go Blue). Prior to that I was a high school teacher in Santa Maria California and a middle school teacher in Claremont, New Hampshire. I've got seven years of experience as a K-12 teacher. My mom was a teacher, as was my grandmother; my cousin is currently a teacher, as am I. You may have a similar story: Teaching can run in families.
My college degrees are in Educational Technology (Ph.D. and M.A., University of Michigan), Curriculum and Instruction (M.A., California Polytechnic SLO), and Music Education (B.M., University of Wisconsin, Madison). I'm also a graduate of the United States Navy School of Music and an honorably discharged veteran of the United States Army (Fourth Infantry Division, Mechanized).
When I have time, I like to play the saxophone, train for and run marathons, and play with new gadgets. Most of all, I like to be with my wife and daughter.
Most people call me Jon. If you're not comfortable with that, please call me Mr. Margerum-Leys. I'd prefer not to be called Dr. Margerum-Leys and I especially dislike being called 'Prof" or 'Doctor Jon'.
If you'd like more information than that, please see my Web page at http://people.emich.edu/jmargerum/
EDMT 330 will help you to critically and creatively apply the concepts, principles, hardware and software associated with the infusion of technology in solving educational problems and meeting challenges in your role as a classroom teacher.
This course is about the use of technology in teaching and learning. Topics covered in the course include practical examples of ways to use technology in your work with students, as well as discussions of the pedagogical and ethical issues involved in technology-infused education. This is not a course which necessarily seeks to improve your individual technological skills; it's a course about teaching and learning. While assigned activities are not technologically complex, if you have difficulty using computers it will take you longer to complete the assignments.
We'll meet Mondays and Wednesdays in room 205D of the Porter Building. Each week, you should bring your USB Drive and something with which to take notes. For the first few weeks, please also bring your name tag to help others learn your name.
Since we will only meet about two dozen times, it's very important that you attend every course meeting. Barring exceptional circumstances, more than three absences will result in a failing grade for the course.
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Note: More readings will be added to this list as the semester progresses. Jon will point out new readings as they are added.
Due dates for assignments are listed on the course calendar. Assignments are due at the beginning of the class period unless otherwise noted.
Products (3-10 points per item)
Throughout the semester, you will create a series of products. Each of these will be an example either of the kind of thing you might create as a teacher or what you might ask students to create. All make use of technologies which are widely available in schools. The products you create will include:
- Information form (3 points)
- Web Activity Design (10 points)
- Concept map (4 points)
- Grading system for a class (3 points)
- Rubric created with an online rubric generator (3 points)
- Digital video (3 points)
- KidPix or other graphics illustration (4 points)
- Spreadsheet (2 points)
- Writing Assignment (2 points for creation, 2 points for giving feedback on another student's writing)
- Newsletter (5 points)
- Presentation (3 points)
- Web page (3 points)
- Think.com page (3 points)
- Blog (3 points)
- Portfolio (20 points)
As the semester progress, you will assemble a portfolio of materials created as part of the course work. At the end of the semester, you will turn in your collection of work as well as a narrative describing how the work fulfills the Intenational Society for Technology in Education stadard for new teachers.
LiveText: Please note that the portfolio must be turned in via LiveText. Teacher Education department policy requires this: If you fail to turn in a completed, passing portfolio via LiveText, you will not pass the course.
Distribution of points for portfolio:
Your assignments are designed to be completed in sequence, on time. In many cases, you will be unprepared for class if you have not completed the week's assignment. Therefore, late work is unacceptable. Late work will be docked two points for each day it is past due, with the exception of the portfolio. Because the portfolio is due at the end of the semester and I need to turn in grades very quickly after it is due, I cannot accept late portfolios.
You'll need to keep all of your files for your portfolio. It's important that you develop a reliable system for keeping these files and making backup copies as needed. If your files get lost during the semester, you'll have to recreate them at the end and that will be very unpleasant. Files stored on our classroom computers will not survive from week to week.
Several of the projects we create this semester won't fit on a floppy disk. Also, floppy disks are notoriously unreliable. I would urge you not to rely on floppy disks to keep your work. Past students' experiences with floppy disks have been extremely negative. Having a USB Drive on which to store your files is a course requirement, in lieu of a required text.
Copyright 2008, Jon Margerum-Leys and the Regents of Eastern Michigan University.