Power Point: Online Lesson Planning

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Online Lesson Planning
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Online Lesson Planning

• Patchogue-Medford
• School District
• In-service Course
• One Credit Ten Hours
• Vic Montemurro, Instructor

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• Requirements
• Attendance
• Reflective Learning Logs
• Lesson Project
• Course Evaluation

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Why Bother?
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Essential Question Can Technology Teach?
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Another Essential Question Is Technology Worth
My Professional Time, Resources, and Efforts? .
Borrowed from, Balajthy, E. (2000). Is
Technology Worth My Professional Time, Resources,
and Efforts? In Wepner, B.,Valmont, W.,
Thurlow, R. (Eds.), Linking Literacy and
Technology A Guide for K 8 Classrooms, (pp.
203- 217). Newark, Delaware International
Reading Association
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Teachers and Technology

• Limited by lack of skills and proficiency
• Frustrated by constant changes is technology and
  lack of support
• Love and hate struggle
• Can we possibly use all this new technology?

• Kids are natives we are immigrants
• We sometimes feel lost and confused
• We need time and opportunity to develop skills
  and confidence
• Difficult to find time at home

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Overview of Internet resources

• lesson designing
• standards alignment
• assessment
• technology integration.

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A National Network of Regional Educational
Laboratories
http//www.nwrel.org/national
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NYS Academy of Teaching and Learning
http//www.nysatl.nysed.gov
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And now, before we go any further, a message from
our sponsor
Crashing through Broken Windows
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• What about basic skills?
• Computer skills
• Windows skills
• Network skills
• Internet skills

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• Computer Windows Basic Skills
• Turn the computer on Log on to network.
• Minimize, maximize, and close windows.
• Copy and paste between applications.
• Send pages, links, and files from Internet to
  home or to school,and vice versa.
• Enter a URL in the location box of an Internet
  browser such as NetVista or Internet Explorer.
• Browse and search the Internet.

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• What do teachers need in order to use technology?
• Time, training, and staff development.
• Practice, guidance, and support.
• Lexicon of instructional technology terminology.
• Input and ownership.
• Opportunities for collaborative learning

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Professional Needs Staff Development in
Technology

• Recognize the need interest
• Learn from others
• Skills and confidence will develop more quickly
  than we realize
• We will feel gratified
• Students will benefit
• Increased motivation?

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Avoiding
PowerPointlessness

• Combating MentalSoftness

• Preventing MultiMediocrity

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Technology Skills For Teachers

• Using Search Engines
• Locating and Using Educational Resources on
  Internet
• Using Internet Standards Databases
• Navigating for Quality Search Results
• Exploring the advantages of Web-based e-mail.

• Copy from the Internet, save, and paste.
• Working with two application or more
  simultaneously
• Multi-tasking with several open windows
• Accessing and saving files

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• Last Day Topics and Requirements
• Whats a pdf?
• Brain-based learning, constructivism, and
  technology.
• Filamentality revisited.
• Article to read Teachers Speak Up About Managing
  Technology
• Grade Quick quickly (open and print .pdf
  attachment in latest e-mail).
• Electronic Portfolio completion, printing, and
  saving.
• Final Reflection
• Course Evaluation