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TECH145 Teaching with WebQuests- 30 hr. Discover Internet resources that promote inquiry-oriented activities among your students, helping them to understand how and why the Web can be useful in the classroom. Explore using WebQuests and learn how to incorporate the Internet into your curriculum effectively. This course enables you to design a WebQuest to enhance a classroom unit or a particular curriculum area to engage your students in meaningful research. List Price Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon! TECH150 Enhancing Multicultural Education with Technology- 30 hr. Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon! TECH155 Collaborating on the Internet: Keypal Projects that Promote Cultural Awareness- 30 hr. Explore how keypal projects help students gain cultural awareness, knowledge of geography, and language skills through online exchanges with students in other locations. Design a collaborative keypal project for your own classroom. Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon! TECH160 Putting Technology to Use in the Classroom: Where to Start- 30 hr. Gain a better understanding of key issues surrounding technology integration, meeting technology standards, and choosing the most suitable technology for specific purposes. Identify lessons or concepts in your classroom that may benefit from technological enhancement. Learn to devise a strategy for integrating technology into your lesson plans. List Price Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon! TECH190 Contemporary Issues: Using Technology for Discussion, Debate, and Problem Solving in the Middle School Curriculum- 30 hr. Learn how to use technology to help students develop discussion, debate, and problem-solving skills. Discover new strategies for incorporating current events, controversial issues, and pop culture into the curriculum. As a final task, create your own current events lesson plan that uses technology to foster understanding, discussion, and debate. An ideal course for learners who want to bring contemporary issues into their social studies, humanities, or science classrooms. List Price Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon! TECH195 Teaching and Learning with Graphic Organizers: Featuring Inspiration- 30 hr. Learn to use electronic graphic organizers to help organize ideas, convey complex concepts, ease students through the steps of the writing process, and develop their mathematical and scientific thinking skills. Help students understand concepts better by presenting information in a visual format that shows the connections among ideas. Learn to apply such electronic graphic organizers as Inspiration© across the curriculum, throughout all grade levels, at learning stations, and in labs. Expand and enhance student thinking and learning for presentations and personal productivity. List Price Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon! TECH300 The Computer for Personal Productivity- 30 hr. Become skilled at utilizing your time more efficiently by examining how technology can help you to create teaching materials and assessments; communicate with colleagues, parents, and students; improve lesson planning; and manage information. Explore areas where the computer can increase personal productivity. Then develop and implement a personal productivity plan that makes the best use of your time and available resources. List Price Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon! TECH305 Using Multimedia to Develop Understanding- 30 hr. Help students in all grades develop their use of multimedia tools in ways that demonstrate their understanding of a subject, not just of the tools. Explore how Bloom’s Taxonomy can help guide your assessment of a project’s promotion of higher-level thinking skills. Learn to instill a strong understanding of content while promoting their critical-thinking skills. Develop a project and create a plan that integrates the use of multimedia in class assignments. List Price Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon! TECH310 The Classroom Computer as a Learning Station- 30 hr. Discover how to guide computer use to improve student learning, productivity, and research. Practice designing learning station activities and providing peer review support throughout the course. As your final task, implement and revise one activity, reflect on the learning experience, and then develop a detailed plan for your new classroom learning station. List Price Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon! TECH315 Using the Computer for Cooperative Experiences- 30 hr. Turn technology into a tool for expanding your cooperativelearning strategies. Explore three types of online cooperative experiences: tele-collaboration, WebQuests, and project-based learning. Examine the basic elements of each model and consider how to apply them to a project. As a final task, develop a teaching unit that employs one of the three models and that includes both an assessment rubric and an implementation plan. List Price Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon! TECH316 El Uso de la Computadora en las Experiencias Cooperativas- 30 hr. Course content is identical to TECH315. Reconocerán cómo mediante la integración de tecnología, se pueden diseñar actividades de aprendizaje cooperativo que motivan a los estudiantes a trabajar juntos y a compartir retos en su proceso de aprendizaje mientras desarrollan habilidades de pensamiento crítico. Discutirán tres tipos de experiencias cooperativas y su aplicación en el salón de clases: tele-colaboración, WebQuests y aprendizaje basado en proyectos. List Price Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon! TECH320 Introduction to a One-Computer Classroom- 30 hr. Discover how to use the computer as a presentation tool, a personal productivity assistant, a catalyst for creating interactive group experiences, and a student learning center. For your final assignment, choose one of these applications, then create and implement a lesson plan that can be applied in your classroom. List Price Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon! TECH325 Searching and Researching on the Internet- 30 hr. Discover the tools and background needed to use the Internet successfully as a research tool in the classroom. Explore methods of Internet research and learn to apply them effectively and efficiently. Review the ethical and legal issues that may arise when using these new tools in the classroom. Use your new skills and knowledge to search the Internet for appropriate lesson materials to help you build a resource library. List Price Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon! TECH330 Communicate and Collaborate Online- 30 hr. Develop powerful, basic skills for researching and evaluating the application of online educational communication tools. Explore e-mail, chat, discussion boards, newsgroups, listservs, videoconferencing, and more. Research a variety of collaborative projects for the classroom that use these tools. Readings and weekly discussions provide a forum for developing the knowledge and skills needed to differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate uses of classroom technology. As a final activity, use electronic resources to design a dynamic lesson plan that infuses a classroom project with Internet-based collaboration. List Price Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon! TECH335 Publishing on the Web- 30 hr. Explore the basic knowledge and skills needed for publishing on the Web. Examine school-based Web sites and other Web publishing projects to evaluate examples of both effective and ineffective presentations. Address key issues to help you understand basic requirements before embarking on Web-publishing activities in the classroom. An easy-to-use Web page template and basic HTML prompts are provided to help you complete your final task: creating an effective Web page. List Price Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon! TECH340 Evaluating and Organizing Internet Resources and Content- 30 hr. List Price Virginia Standards of Learning Alignment- Coming Soon!
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