Moravian College

Technology in the Classroom (Ed 240.2)
Section Z

 

Ronald J. Szabo
Instructor

 

Class Schedule  (Subject to revision)

October 21

Lesson 1

 

Introduction to Mac Operating Systems and Network Environments

Blackboard -

Fundamentals of MS Word on a Mac

Formatting Text in a word processor, Clip Art, Spelling Check , Find /Replace

HOMEWORK: FORMATTING TEXT,  On-line survey

October 26

Lesson 2

Fonts, Text Frames - Creating Graphics using MS Word (Basic, auto-shapes), Tables

Internet: Common internet Terminology

HOMEWORK : Setting up a document using Text Frames

October 28

Lesson 3

Classroom Response Systems

Project Planning – Technologies for Classroom Usage

Digital Photography - Taking Pictures, uploading images into the computer

Editing Photographs

HOMEWORK : Digital Magic

November 2

Lesson 4

Classroom Response Systems -

Design Fundamentals - Proximity, Alignment, Repetition, and Contrast

Word Graphics (Setting attributes of fill and line, Shadow, 3-D),

Other sources of Graphics (Internet, Clip Art Libraries)

HOMEWORK - Creating an Effective Flyer

November 4

Lesson 5

Warm-up activity

Creating a Fact Sheet - Columns, Linking Text Frames, Word Art

Internet - Searching the Internet -Directory Searches

HOMEWORK: Specialized Search Engines (Due: Lesson 7)

HOMEWORK: Create a Banner for Fact Sheet

HOMEWORK: Fact Sheet (Due Lesson 8)

November 9

Lesson 6

Internet - Searching the Internet -Search Engines Meta Searches

Creating Audio Clips

Importing Audio into documents
HOMEWORK:

November 11

Lesson 7

Creating Effective Presentations

PowerPoint Fundamentals (Screen Snapshot)

Layout View – Word for Mac

Internet - Specialized Search Engines

HOMEWORK: Presentation - (Due Lesson 11)

November 16

Lesson 8

Video, Screen Recording – Basic video editing

Advanced Features of PowerPoint, Importing Audio, and Video

Introduction to Moravian's Network

Configuring Adobe GoLive

Fact Sheet Due

November 18

Lesson 9

Advanced Features of PowerPoint – Animations and Transitions

Planning your Web Site

Adobe Go Live - Handling Text in HTML

HOMEWORK:  Scoring a Powerpoint Presentation (Submitted on the Network)

November 23

Lesson 10

PowerPoint- Action Buttons

Internet - Creating a Web page - (Graphics/ Backgrounds / Photographs/Custom Layouts and Layout Grids)

HOMEWORK:  Research Curriculum Links

November 30

Lesson 11

PowerPoint Printing and Saving Options

Web Site Rubric

Internet – Creating a New Page, Tables, Layout Grids

Presentation Due (Submitted on the network)

December 2

Lesson 12

Internet- Internal, external, email Hyper-linking

Inserting Word Documents in Web Pages, Text Wrap in HTML

Web Workshop

December 7

Lesson 13

Design Checklist

New Technologies e-beam, digital microscopes

Web Workshop

December 9

Lesson 14

 

Web Workshop

Presentations

Evaluations

 

 

There will be no class, Wednesday November 25,2009

There WILL be class Monday, November 30

ALL assignments should be handed in electronically through Blackboard  1 hour before class, if possible.

 

 

Email:
merjs02@moravian.edu

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