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 your 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 Matt Rosen Subject taught 7th grade World History topic s for portfolio Computer Instruction 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 1 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 shortcuts Consult these electronic help menus when you need to know how to perform a particular operation 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 2 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 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 3 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 4 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 Photo Contributions to the development of computer Gottfried Leibniz Leibniz was the first person to develop a logic using the binary system With Boolean algebra these two early mathematicians were able to develop an early computational model to be mathematically modeled 5 Alan Turing This man was known as the Father of Computer Science because he invented the Turing Machine This early computer was based on logical use of digital information and was not bound to physical analog type characteristics Claude Elwood Shannon He recognized as an electrical engineer that electric circuits could be used to arrange electromechanical relays to solve logic problems His graduate thesis was the beginning of practical circuit design Arthur Scherbius A German electrical engineer who patented a mechanical cipher machine Enigma based on rotating wired wheels rotor machine The German Navy adopted a model of this machine in 1926 Jack St Clair Kilby Invented the interated circuit or microchip around 1965 The first uses of the microchip were in embedded systems notably for NASA and the Minuteman ICBM generation First Second Photo of key component Features This first generation computer was designed to store programs The programs and working data were stored in a single unified location It used acoustic delay lines to provide temporary working storage Transistors mark the beginning of the second generation Invented in 1947 they replaced the vacuum tubes and allowed computers to be smaller and reduce both initial and operating costs 6 Third The third generation began with the invention of the microchip and integrated circuitry These were solid state devices that interconnected on a substrate with discrete wires Fourth The fourth generation is defined by the microprocessor Originally developed for Japanese calculators the microprocessor allowed computers to decrease in size but increase in capacity Fifth Invented initially in Japan the supercomputer is designed to