Name Susan M Smith June 16 200512 21 PM Page 1 of 11 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 PTP Complete the title page of the portfolio that includes 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 Susan M Smith Subject taught Science 6 7 topic s for portfolio Geology The earth is a dynamic planet Many of Earth s processes that we experience today changed the surface of the Earth throughout its history Understanding the processes that shape the earth by mountain building and erosion can make students better informed when making decisions about safe housing and buildings The dynamic processes of Earth can also allow scientists to infer what life could be like on other planets and understand the forces behind the creation of the universe 2 Documenting your work with screen captures 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 shortcuts Consult these electronic help menus when you need to know how to perform a particular operation 1 Name Susan M Smith June 16 200512 21 PM Page 2 of 11 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 2 Name Susan M Smith June 16 200512 21 PM Page 3 of 11 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 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 Seating Chart SED 514 Justin Miller Leslie SimmelKestin Laura Galloway 3 Seta Amirian Name Susan M Smith June 16 200512 21 PM Page 4 of 11 Printer Scott Cooper Bob James Rozsa Julie Steyer Printer Kevin Kelley Jim Mauch Susan Smith J D Romanowski Jim Schawgle Sheryl Recinos Jessica Levine Jeff Raigoza Jacqueline Mata Amy Smith Duygu Kangal Tom Alfera Felicia Yang Jon Malmed Valerie Cannon Nancy Alejo Jung Chang Tiffany Owens 5 Searching Identifying Plagiarism The ease of information access can accelerate the learning process but it can also be counter productive by facilitating plagiarism 4 Name Susan M Smith June 16 200512 21 PM Page 5 of 11 Discuss the importance of intellectual honesty with your students and illustrate how you can easily identify work plagiarized 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 Analysis of paper at http www csun edu science courses 514 docs plaigirism htm Excerpt The explosion in the use of computers began with Third Generation computers These relied Jack St Claire Kilby s invention the integrated circuit or microchip the first integrated circuit was produced in September 1958 but computers using them didn t begin to appear until 1963 While large mainframes such as the I B M 360 increased storage and processing capabilities further the integrated circuit allowed the development of Minicomputers that began to bring computing into many smaller businesses Large scale intergration of circuits led to the development of very small processing units an early example of this is the processor used for analyising flight data in the US Navy s F14A TomCat fighter jet This processor was developed by Steve Geller Ray Holt and a team from AiResearch and American Microsystems Found this article also at http www talkroot com library History of computing II shtml htm The explosion in the use of computers began with Third Generation computers These relied on Jack St Claire Kilby s invention of the integrated circuit or microchip The first integrated circuit was produced in September 1958 but computers using them didn t begin to appear until 1963 While large mainframes such as the IBM System 360 increased storage and processing capabilities further the integrated circuit allowed the development of much smaller computers that began to bring computing into many smaller businesses They were eventually called minicomputers 5 Name Susan M Smith June 16 200512 21 PM Page 6 of 11 Large scale integration of circuits led to the development of very small processing units an early example of this is the processor used for analysing flight data in the US Navy s F14A TomCat fighter jet This processor was developed by Steve Geller Ray