Name Jordan Saxon Page 1 7 15 06 1 Focus of your portfolio The goal of SED 514 is to equip teachers with technical and pedagogical skills to enhance teaching and learning You will prepare a 514 portfolio electronic or paper of your work illustrating how computer technologies can be used to improve the teaching and learning of a particular unit within your discipline By the time you are done with this class you will have collected and developed resources that will benefit you and your students Please note that many of the activities in this portfolio may be also used as artifacts for your professional teaching portfolio PDP Complete the title page of the portfolio that includes you re a photograph of you your name school subject taught and topic for portfolio Identify the subject and topic for which your 514 portfolio will be developed Briefly describe the significance of this topic with respect to your curriculum Name Subject taught topic s for portfolio Jordan Saxon English 10 and 11 Authors The following website project is dedicated to a few of the authors I love to teach Fitzgerald Poe Twain and Shakespeare They constitute much of my teaching in English 10 and 11 The Great Gatsby in my opinion is the most perfect and brilliant novel to date Poe allows us to get the darker side of our emotions Twain plays the sarcasm card perfectly and Shakespeare can do it all with his hands tied behind his back So it is with homage to these great authors that this project is presented 2 Documenting your work with screen capture Screen capture programs allow the user to take pictures of anything on their screen and save them as graphics files Download a screen capture program for your home computer and use it to take pictures of items required in this portfolio Demonstrate competency with a screen capture utility by inserting a jpg file of keyboard shortcuts contextual help menu of the operating system you are using Note that virtually all programs and operating systems have help menus and keyboard shorcuts Consult these electronic help menus when you need to know how to perform a particular operation 1 Name Jordan Saxon Page 2 7 15 06 3 Backing up and transporting your files Always backup your files You can a save them on USB drive or portable hard drive b upload ftp them to your CSUN account uDrive c move them to an Internet hard drive or d send them as attached files accompanying email messages Do one of the following Save your work to your uDrive The uDrive is an extra storage area that provides additional disk space for campus users who wish to store their desktop files and folders on a remote server Include a screen capture Develop an Internet hard drive using the Yahoo briefcase or similar resource You can send your files to your Internet hard drive and then retrieve them at home or school Include a screen capture 2 Name Jordan Saxon Page 3 3 7 15 06 Name Jordan Saxon Page 4 7 15 06 4 Learning about your students Most secondary school teachers must learn the names of 150 200 students at the beginning of each academic year This formidable task is made much easier using a photographic seating chart TPE tip Teachers may use photographic seating charts combined with student information surveys to learn about their students early in the semester TPE 8 Make certain to check with your school regarding policies for photographing students Use a digital camera to make a seating chart for one of the classes you teach or for this class at CSUN 4 Name Jordan Saxon Page 5 7 15 06 Arthur Miller Richard Wright Kate Chopin Tim O Brien F Scott Fitzgerald Will Shakespeare Bernarn Malamud Edgar Poe JD Salinger Amy Tan Lorraine Hansberry Harriet Beecher Stowe John Steinbeck Mark Twain Sandra Cisneros 5 Searching Identifying Plagiarism The ease of information access can accelerate the learning process but it can also be counter productive by facilitating plagiarism Discuss the importance of intellectual honesty with your students and illustrate how you can easily identify work plaigiarized from sites on the Internet Using an advanced search engine with Boolean search features such as Altavista find text from one of your students or from a website related to your field that appears to be plagiarized Copy and paste the text and the URLs of both pieces in question Alternatively you may wish to use an online plagiarism detection service such as tunitin com 5 Name Jordan Saxon Page 6 7 15 06 http www waldorf edu services library Exhibition 20Hall WilliamShakespeare htm 6 Name Jordan Saxon Page 7 7 15 06 http en wikipedia org wiki Shakespeare original site 6 History of computers graphic search engines Answer the following questions using information from technology education websites or other online resources Make certain that all information is in your own words No credit can be given for information that is identical to that of another student or a web page Contributors to the development of the computer Select five individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of the computer List the contribution s of each individual and briefly describe its importance See technology education websites Use a graphic search engine to find pictures of each Computer Generations Computer historians have classified computers into generations in an effort to identify the major technological advances upon which the computers are built Briefly identify the major features of each of the first five generations of computers See technology education websites Use a graphic search engine to find pictures of each 7 Name Jordan Saxon Photo Page 8 7 15 06 Contributions to the development of computer Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft Corporation His company has been the major player in bringing computers to mainstream society While he has not developed all of the major ideas in computers today DOS he is responsible to figuring out how those ideas should work with our technology Contributions Steve Wozniak co founded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976 He created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 70 s which became the first major personal computer Along with his student John Berry Professor Atanasoff built the world s first personal computer at Iowa State University between the years 1939 and 1942 It had a few important features that are vital to today s computers a binary system processing and memory The AtanasoffBerry computer could calculate one operation every fifteen seconds Douglas Englebart invented and