GS 301
Instructional Uses of Technology
This course is designed to provide graduate students across disciplines with opportunities to develop confidence and competence with current, pedagogically effective uses of technology in the university classroom. Topics include introduction to using technology in teaching; creating course web pages; effective in-class presentations; communication and interactivity tools, and electronically transmitted documents (digital dissertations.) Completion of this course includes development of an electronic teaching portfolio. You can find student portfolios from previous semesters here.
By the end of this course, you should be able to
- Use the main functions of Blackboard for support of university classroom instruction. This includes tools related to course management, user management, content management, communication and assessment
- Hand code basic html documents and publish them using ftp software
- Create instructional materials (including webpages authored in and html editor such as Dreamweaver) that demonstrate an understanding of graphic design principles
- Create/modify a draft presentation file that demonstrates an understanding of best practices for content organization using presentation software (e.g., PowerPoint)
- Demonstrate or describe use of interactive technology to support instruction in your discipline; this may include iPods, wikis, blogs, personal response systems and online survey tools
- Demonstrate an understanding of the role of instructional design by doing the following in a teaching with technology statement
- Write basic learning objectives
- Describe your understanding of the teacher/learner relationship
- Explain your understanding of the process of teaching and learning
- Provide at least seven concrete examples of your use (or proposed use) of technology to support this process
- Develop and refine an electronic portfolio centered on this teaching with technology statement that provides evidence of your use of instructional technology in pedagogically sound ways for use in a job search.
