EDTE 631

1. Course Number and Title: EDTE 631, Technology to Support Instruction
2. Catalog Description: Introduction to computers, educational technology, and selected applications for instructional management.
3. Credit: 3 hours (graduate)
4. Prerequisite: none
5. Intended Audience: professional educators without previous credit for CSCI 101 or a comparable course
6. Instructor: Edwin Dickey

1. Goals:
   1. To develop teachers' skills in using a computers and other electronic technology.
   2. To introduce teachers to various types of educational technology useful in instructional management.
2. Objectives:
   1. The student will be able to operate a computer system similar to those found in school settings.
   2. The student will be able to use a full-featured word processing system to create documents related education (letters, tests, worksheets, etc.).
   3. The student will be able to use a data base manager to create, maintain, and manipulate educational data (addresses, student records, etc.).
   4. The student will be able to use an electronic spreadsheet maintain and report numerical data (grades, test scores, class ranks, etc.).
   5. The student will be familiar with interrelation of word processing, data base management, and electronic spreadsheets.
   6. The student will be familiar with electronic technology such as audio and video devices useful for support instructional objectives.
   7. The student will be able to use electronic mail and Internet resources related to instructional management.

Recommended: Reference manuals for the various software packages will be used along with handouts prepared by the instructor.

1. Class Attendance
2. Graduate Student Only: Four projects consisting of an educational application of each major utility software package covered in the course (word processor, data base manager, electronic spreadsheet, and electronic mail).
3. Graduate Student Only: Student Presentation of Projects
4. Final Examination (includes computer, laserdisc, video, and audio equipment competencies)

Class participation is an important aspect of this course; students are strongly encouraged to attend each class. Each project should be completed and submitted within the two weeks following the topic's coverage in class. No projects will be accepted after the last class which precedes the final exam.

Projects and the final examination will be graded using the traditional A-F scale. Graduate Students: The final course grade will be the weighted average of the four project grades (75%) and the final examination grade (25%). Undergraduate Students: The final course grade will be the grade on the final examination.

1. Introduction to Course, Its Software and Hardware
2. Hardware and Operation: Computers, Modems, Video, and Audio
3. Introduction to Word Processing
4. Managing and Printing Files
5. Word Processing as a Teaching Tool
6. Introduction to Data Base Management
7. Creating and Maintaining a Data Base
8. Integrating Word Processors and Data Base Managers
9. Introduction to Electronic Spreadsheets
10. Applications of Electronic Spreadsheets
11. Introduction to the Internet and Electronic Mail
12. Use audio devices to support instruction
13. Use of video devices to support instruction
14. Student Projects

Each class will consist of a combination of lecture, demonstration, and hands-on applications. The instructor will introduce and demonstrate the subject of the lesson and, then, supervise students as they apply that subject matter at the computer. The amount of time devoted to each topic will vary.

A minimum of one computer for every two students will be required and a large screen monitor will be needed for demonstration purposes. Access to the Internet, laserdisc players and laserdisc programs, video cameras (still and motion), video capture cards, microphones, and audio capture hardware are essential to the course.