All assignments are to be submitted as text-only email or posted on
the web and submitted by email
containing the URL of the
assignment to:
with absolutely no attachments. No assignments will
be accepted late.
No assignments will be accepted on paper. No assignments will be
accepted on diskettes.
An
assignment is late if the email is sent after the start of the class at
which it is due.
The grade for the assignment will be sent back to the email address from
which the
assignment email was sent. In the case of group assignments in which
multiple students
are involved, one student should be the sender of the email and the other
students should
be listed both in the email "CC:" list and in the body of the
message.
Students should check this page frequently for updates.
Assignments with an assignment date one week or more in the
future are subject to change.
Assignment #1, assigned Wednesday, 7 September 2005, due Wednesday,
14 September 2005.
In class you should have created a small web page in
your arcib.dowling.edu account in public_html/index.html that says "Web
site of <your_name>
under construction", where <your_name> is replaced by your
first name. Using a text editor (not Word or DreamWeaver, just an
ordinary text editor), change
the text on that page to include more lines of information (your choice, but at least
six lines). Experiment with separating the lines with
"<BR>" or with "<P>",
and experiment with putting "<b>" before some text and
"</b>" after that
text, until you have something reasonably pleasing and presentable. Have
that short page ready no later than for class on Wednesday, 14 September 2005.
Send an email when your page is ready to be viewed.
Write notes on what you figured out in the first part of this
assignment in your notebook and bring it with you on Wednesday, 14 September
2005.
Record clear instructions in your notebook on how to connect to
arcib.dowling.edu, how to edit a file and how to terminate the connection.
Read Chapters 1 and 2 of the Reed text. Prepare notes in your notebook
on how to handle the exercises in Chapter 2. (Hint: you may be asked
about this material).
Prepare detailed notes in your notebook on where you believe
technology can be applied for research and/or instruction in your
discipline and be prepared to discuss in class.
Assignment #2, assigned Wednesday, 14 September 2005, due Wednesday,
21 September 2005.
Finish the work on your web page..
The quizzes you have to do in these assignments are multiple choice
quizzes.
The quizzes given in class are fill-in-the-blanks and essay quizzes.
Write a short, well researched essay comparing the relative pedagogical
value of these two approaches within the context of the use of
technology. Remember that an essay must begin with a thesis.
Post your essay on your web site. Email the URL to
with absolutely no attachments.
Update your web page to include notes on where you believe
technology can be applied for research and/or instruction in your
discipline as a bulleted list.
Read Chapter 3 in the Reed text. Prepare notes in your notebook
on how to handle the review questions in Chapter 3. (Hint: you may be asked
about this material).
Read Chapter 3 in Roblyer and take the multiple choice quiz at
http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/roblyer/chapter3/deluxe.html
repeatedly until you can answer all the questions correctly. (Hint:
you may encounter some similar questions on your next quiz).
If you did not do the quiz for Chapter 2, go
back and do it, too.
Assignment #3, assigned Wednesday, 21 September 2005, due Wednesday,
28 September 2005.
You will have started a discussion about choosing a technology topic
in class. Update your web page with a discussion of your preliminary choice of
a technology topic. You must include in the discussion at least one
content sub-topic and one pedagogical sub-topic. If you have chosen
a research topic, rather than an instructional topic, you should have
at least one content sub-topic and one data management/presentation
sub-topic. Make creative use of what you have read in the Roblyer text. You
must be prepared to make a brief (4-5 minute) presentation of your topic in
class. Make sure your notebook and your web page contain everything you need
to make your presentation. Those are the only things to which you may refer.
Read Chapter 4 in Roblyer and take the multiple choice quiz at
http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/roblyer/chapter4/deluxe.html
repeatedly until you can answer all the questions correctly. (Hint:
you may encounter some similar questions on your next quiz).
If you did not do the quiz for Chapters 2 or 3, go
back and do it, too.
There are no classes at Dowling on Monday 3 October 2005, Tuesday
4 October 2005 and until 5 PM on Wednesday, 5 October 2005. This
class will meet on Wednesday 5 October at the usual time, 6:10 pm.
Assignment #4, assigned Wednesday, 28 September 2005, due Wednesday,
5 October 2005.
In class today, we will have discussed the use of technology
in research. Pick a research topic of interest to you, do
a web search for technological tools that would be useful in
pursuing that area of research, and prepare notes in your notebook
on the results of your search. Make sure you clearly state the
research topic and that your notes are detailed and relevant to
the topic. I will borrow your note book for grading during the
quiz next week.
Read Chapter 5 in Roblyer and take the multiple choice quiz at
http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/roblyer/chapter5/deluxe.html
repeatedly until you can answer all the questions correctly. (Hint:
you may encounter some similar questions on your next quiz).
If you did not do the quiz for Chapters 2 or 3 or 4, go
back and do it, too.
There are no classes at Dowling after 5 pm on Wednesday, 12 October
2005 nor on Thursday 13 October 2005. This class will not meet on
Wednesday 12 October and there will be no office hours by the instructor
that day.
Assignment #5, assigned Wednesday, 5 October 2005, due Wednesday,
19 October 2005.
In class today, we will have discussed the use of Word Processors,
Spreadsheets and other common office software in instruction and research.
Write notes in your notebook about the advantages and disadvantages
of using a spreadsheet as a gradebook in comparison to the use
of an ordinary paper gradebook.
Read Chapter 6 in Roblyer and take the multiple choice quiz at
http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/roblyer/chapter6/deluxe.html
repeatedly until you can answer all the questions correctly. (Hint:
you may encounter some similar questions on your next quiz).
If you did not do the quiz for Chapters 2 or 3 or 4 or 5, go
back and do it, too.
Assignment #6, assigned Wednesday, 19 October 2005, due Wednesday,
26 October 2005.
In class today, we will have discussed the use of
hardware and software tools not normally found in office software suites.
One such tool is the graphing calculator. Do some research
on the web about the use of graphing calculators (or
graphing-calculator-like software) in mathematics
instruction. Write notes in your notebook about the positive
and negative aspects of such use and be prepared to discuss
this issue next time.
Read Chapter 7 in Roblyer and take the multiple choice quiz at
http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/roblyer/chapter7/deluxe.html
repeatedly until you can answer all the questions correctly. (Hint:
you may encounter some similar questions on your next quiz).
If you did not do the quiz for Chapters 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6, go
back and do it, too.
Assignment #7, assigned Wednesday, 26 October 2005, due Wednesday,
2 November 2005.
In class today, we will have discussed the use of
multimedia and hypermedia. In class next time we will be
discussing the use of the web. As you do the reading for the
rest of this assignment, put notes in your notebook about the
advantages and disadvantages of using multimedia and hypermedia
in instruction versus the use of the web. Be prepared to
discuss.
Read Chapter 8 in Roblyer and take the multiple choice quiz at
http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/roblyer/chapter8/deluxe.html
repeatedly until you can answer all the questions correctly. (Hint:
you may encounter some similar questions on your next quiz).
If you did not do the quiz for Chapters 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7, go
back and do it, too.
Read Chapters 4 and 5 in Reed. Next time we will do examples from
these chapters in class. Put notes in your notebook that will help
you be prepared to work on exercise 5.6 in class.
Assignment #8, assigned Wednesday, 2 November 2005, due Wednesday,
9 November 2005.
In class today, we will have started on making web pages
active, by using prompt boxes. Next time we will look at
making web pages active by filling in forms. As you
do the reading for the rest of this assignment, put
notes in your notebook about the advantages and
disadvantages of using prompt boxes versus using forms.
Be prepared to discuss.
Read Chapters 8 and 9 in Reed. Next time we will do examples from
these chapters in class. Put notes in your notebook that will help
you be prepared to work on a form-based web page in class.
Assignment #9, assigned Wednesday, 9 November 2005, due Wednesday,
16 November 2005.
In class today, we used forms in active web pages,
and the time before we used prompts. As you read the next
assignment, put notes in your notebook about what
conditional execution could do to make active web pages
more interesting.
Read Chapter 11 Reed. Next time we will do examples related
to this chapter in class. Put notes in your notebook that will help
you be prepared to work on conditional execution in class.
Assignment #10, assigned Wednesday, 16 November 2005, due Wednesday,
30 November 2005.
Read Chapter 11 in Roblyer and take the multiple choice quiz at
http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/roblyer/chapter11/deluxe.html
repeatedly until you can answer all the questions correctly. (Hint:
you may encounter some similar questions on your next quiz).
If you did not do the quiz for Chapters 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8, go
back and do it, too.
Prepare an 2-4 page single-spaced paper drawing on all you have learned
explaining how best to make use of technology in instruction and research for
for one particular area of research or instruction. Be sure to show how
technology can contribute value in one content topic and one pedagogical (or
presentation) topic related to your overall topic. It is OK for this
paper to make use of the material you have pulled together for your
semester project and for this paper to contribute to your semester project,
but, if you wish, you may write on a different topic instead.
There is no class on Wednesday 23 November. Please note that you
will be doing your final in class presentation of your semester projects
shortly after the Thanksgiving holiday, so it would be a good idea
to get your projects in shape over the holiday. You will each be talking
for 10-15 minutes and the presentations will take a significant portion of the
last two lecture periods. Details to follow.
Assignment #11, assigned Wednesday, 30 November 2005, due Wednesday,
7 December 2005.
Prepare a final presentation of your semester project. You will
both do an in-class presentation and provide a handout to the instructor
on the subject.
Make sure your notebook and your web page contain everything you need
to make your presentation. Those are the only things to which you may refer
for the in-class presentation. You must speak for 10-15 minutes and
present at least one solid content subject and one solid pedagogical
subject. You must display an understanding of the issues in the
use of technology that you have studied and be prepared to discuss
and jusify the choices you have made. Your handout must include appropriate
bibliography and references. The presentations may spill over to
the class on Wednesday, 14 December. If time is left we will do
a review for the final, but you are responsible for all material
related to any and all assigned readings and for all topics
covered in classes or quizzes.
Assignment #12, assigned Wednesday, 7 December 2005, due Wednesday,
14 December 2005.
This is the last assignment before the final. Be sure to catch
up on all prior assignments to get ready for the final.