General Intro
Class name: Educational Media and Classroom Computing
Taught at: University of Northern Iowa, IA US
Location: Division of Educational Technology, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, UNI, Cedar Falls, IA, USA
Year: 1999.
Course designed for undergraduate major students in the field of Educational Technology, as an insight to using educational media in teacher's practice, i.e. how much the teacher can make use of the computer as a tool for:
- organizing the teaching/learning process;
- preparing/developing teaching aids/materials;
- collecting, storing and processing data for administrative, organizational and educational needs.
Excerpts from 1999 syllabus (full syllabus may be published if the project reopens)
The course is divided into 3 main parts (modules) devoted to the three selected issues of classroom computing and educational media: (i) educational text-based materials, (ii) databases for educational or administrative needs and (iii) web-design computing for educational purposes. The length of each module depends on students' experience in using the computer, i.e. how much time is necessary for the group to get acquainted with an application's basic functions.
The fourth, final module is devoted to the integration of different activities performed since the beginning of the course. Students have already practiced three kinds of educational output: formatted text, database and web-page, respectively. Integrating Activities is a stage at which certain elements of one document can be implemented in another. Different ways of implementation are possible here.
Students are graded according to: their attendance, participation in class debates, and practical output: educational documents (products) developed in each module throughout the course.
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