Bill Robertson, Ph.D. - Classes
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EDT 5373 - Advanced Productivity Technology Classroom

Student Products - Midterm | Final

Midterm - Due March 6, 2006

Task

You are tasked with developing, implementing and providing a MS PowerPoint (PPT) presentation of 8-10 slides in class. This product and its presentation will be your Mid-term assignment.

You will prepare a presentation that addresses the following statement:

Demonstrate the impact of technology in advancing student and/or teacher productivity in your content area.

The purpose is to have you demonstrate an understanding of the advanced productivity in the integration of MS Word and MS PowerPoint that would be appropriate for you to use in your current classroom. Each student will have 5-7 minutes to present their demonstration and to field questions from classmates.

Product – MS PowerPoint Integrated with MS Word

You will develop a MS PowerPoint presentation that is integrated with MS Word. You must have the following slides along with your content information: title slide, purpose, summary and references. You should have between 8-10 total slides. For each PPT slide, use a bulleted approach with a good layout that is clear and understandable and that provides purposeful content from which to present. For each slide (excluding the title slide), you will need to supply a researched position that will be the background supporting information for your slides. You should prepare these support statements as researched positions in MS Word and paste the information into the Notes area within the appropriate slide. For the reference slides, you will create a list of references by author and tile (or Web site), and put a complete bibliography in APA style in the Notes area of this slide. All presentation slides could be created in MS PowerPoint and all supporting information should be created in MS Word and put into the Notes area of the appropriate slide. You will upload one PPT File into the assignments area for grading.

Presentation

Each student will have time to present their position and to field questions from classmates. This will be done to simulate a conference presentation setting as an opportunity to share information. Be sure to bring the appropriate materials you will need in order to facilitate your classroom presentation.

Evaluation

The evaluation for your Mid-term grade will be a combination of the product (the activity) that you develop and your presentation of this product in the classroom. There will be a rubric that will be used for the evaluation of the product and the presentation. The final score that you receive will be out of a total of 100 possible points.

Submit in Assignments Area as MS PPT file.

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Final - Due May 1, 2006

Task

Each student will identify a classroom or school wide issue that explores the use of technology to enhance the teaching and learning process. This should be a topic uniquely different from the Midterm and should integrate a central theme throughout the final product.

These central themes of a given final project should fit into a category in one of the following areas: technology integration, technology impacts, technology challenges, technology and the curriculum, technology for the future, and technology and software applications.

The Student should identify there own central theme and focus area, and should develop a series of final materials that will be organized within an electronic CD for class dissemination and personal use. You will need to supply 2 CDs, one for the instructor to keep for grading and one for the class to use for providing feedback.

Product – Electronic Portfolio CD

Each student will create an electronic portfolio which will consist of examples of work accomplished throughout the semester in the areas of Word processing, Presentations, Spreadsheet development and Databases. The purpose is to have the student demonstrate an advanced understanding of desktop software applications in MS Office and showcase these skills and abilities within a format of an electronic portfolio. The electronic portfolio CD will consist of materials that will include the following:

Final Research Paper using Word (30%)

This research assignment should be approximately 3-5 typed pages in which each student will respond to the series of guiding question questions. Each paper will be graded on content, style, demonstrated understanding of the topic and supporting information to justify individual positions. The paper will be turned in to the instructor through the assignments module in WebCT on the due date in order to receive full credit. Papers should be done in Times New Roman 12 point font and be 1 1/2 spaced. Each paper must include the student name, page numbers and appropriate references in APA style.

Final Presentation using PowerPoint (30%)

You must have the following slides along with your content information: title slide, purpose, summary and references. You should have between 8-10 total slides. For each PPT slide, use a bulleted approach with a good layout that is clear and understandable and that provides purposeful content from which to present. You may integrate pictures, graphics, charts and other materials as you deem appropriate.

Final Spreadsheet using Excel and/or database using Access (30%)

For spreadsheets, you should utilize data sets that support the central thesis of your research and used to highlight the impact of your main points and conclusions. For a given workbook done in Excel, there should be a minimum of three worksheets within a given workbook, and the data that you choose to catalogue should fit within the overall outlined theme of your paper and presentation and be used as supporting information in these areas as appropriate. For a data base done in Access, it should consist of information or reference material with a minimum of 6 fields and a minimum of ten overall entries. You are required to do either a spreadsheet workbook or a database, and if you decide to do both, you can receive extra credit for your final project at the discretion and evaluation of the instructor.

Overall organization of electronic portfolio (10%)

Each student will assemble an electronic portfolio that will be organized in a series of folders with corresponding materials organized within the directory structure. More credit will be given to projects that reflect an organization in folders and file naming that reflects an all lowercase, no spaces schema. Each folder and file name should effectively and implicitly identify the topic within the directory structure (see sample concept map).

Presentation

Each student will review at least have 4 CDs from classmates and provide feedback on strengths and areas to improve for the project developer. A feedback form will be provided as a blank template, and the student will create feedback forms for the four classmates and email them to them via WebCT. This will be done to simulate a technology development setting as an opportunity to share information in a technology enhanced method.

Evaluation

The overall project is worth 150 total points and the breakdown is defined in the below bulleted area. Each aspect of the electronic portfolio will have a specific parameter for grading that will consist as follows:

Final Research Paper using Word (30% or 45 points)

Final Presentation using PowerPoint (30% or 45 points)
Final Spreadsheet using Excel and/or database using Access (30% or 45 points)
Overall organization of electronic portfolio (10% or 15 points)

Extra credit will be provided for including extra materials and examples within your electronic portfolio, such as your original midterm presentation, newsletter, and other assignments that you have deemed as excellent examples of your best work in the class. In order to receive full credit, these example assignments should also reflect a nomenclature that follows the overall electronic portfolio organizational structure. (Up to 15 points).