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Integrating Technology Through Service Course Syllabus
Dates & Times: This one credit course is structured to run for four Monday - Sunday weeks, with assignments due at midnight on Sunday. Participants are expected to login daily and can expect to spend between 5 and 10 hours weekly in study. At least an hour should be set aside to participate in the class each weekday. Instructor: Shelley Bacon, Masters of Arts in Leadership Distance Learning Coordinator, AdventistLIVE (Upper Columbia Conference distance education program) shelley@shelleybacon.org Course Description: This is an advanced course in integrating technology into the curriculum specifically through the medium of service learning. Participants will assess their school’s available technology, their classroom’s current service learning opportunities, and their local community needs. Using available technology and appropriate content and faith integration, participants will develop a service learning project that can be implemented in their own classrooms and/or shared with other educators. Attention will be given to the North American Division’s Journey to Excellence, particularly goals 1, 2, and 10. This course addresses the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers I-VI. Learning Online with AVLN: Online learning with AVLN is based on a participatory model where you are required to actively engage in conversation and the development of knowledge, skills, and beliefs. You can expect to interact with the concepts of the class, the instructor(s), the other participants, and your previous experiences. Because the whole course focuses on service learning, faith integration is prevalent throughout the course. If you have special learning needs, please contact one of the instructors. Prerequisites: Participants should have completed AVLN’s Integrating Technology in the Curriculum or equivalent course (must be proficient with their available technology, such as Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, FrontPage or other web design program; all of these may not necessarily be used but may be incorporated into participant’s projects). Course Objectives:Participants will:
Modes of instruction: Students in this course will participate in online collaborative groups, access web sites and reading materials, and experience various instructional strategies online.
Getting Help:In an online course, it is especially important to be able to get help when you need it. Your instructors will make every effort to respond to your emails within 24 hours. We also have tried to include as much step-by-step instruction as possible. If necessary, you can email an instructor to set up an online chat to assist you in a synchronous written conversation. Privacy:Because we are using online courseware, only the participants in the class will be able to join discussions. Your assignments are submitted either directly to your instructor or posted in the class Discussion area. You will have the choice on how much information you wish to share with the other participants in the class. Course Requirements and Grading Scale: Each week’s instructions will include four sections: Ponder, Share, Prepare, Present
Weekly Topics:
Week 1: Why Service
Week 2: What is currently happening Week 3: Service Learning as Problem/Project-based learning
Week 4: How to Gather and Use Data
Week 5: How to Integrate Content Week 6: Where to find funding; How to impact your community/the world through service learning Ponder
Each week you will be required to read on-line articles relevant to the week’s discussion and assignment. (Articles can be printed and read off-line if necessary or desired.) We recommend you read the articles EARLY in the week (Monday or Tuesday) and then post and check in on the discussion area two or three times during the week to see what else you can add and respond to fellow participants’ posts and/or responses. You will be expected to respond in a manner that allows the instructors to assess your understanding of the material by responding to specific questions and making applications to your own classroom situation and/or educational philosophy.
Share
We believe in the importance of sharing experience and building knowledge together. We believe that you'll learn as much from each other as you will from us. Therefore, we have included discussions as an integral part of the course. Our goal is that you will get to know and learn from the other participants just as if you were in a face to face class with them.
Prepare
Each week you will have an assignment to complete which will help you prepare to integrate technology through service learning in your classroom. You can expect the weekly projects to take from 1-4 hours to complete, depending on the week and the project. · Week 1: Investigate current hardware and software available at your school; create a chart/table with this information, and think about ways each piece of technology could be utilized in a manner that would meet the needs of others in your community/the world through a service learning project.
· Week 2: Create outline of service learning project utilizing as much technology as reasonable into a service- related project
· Week 3: Compare and contrast service learning in general and your project outline in specific with project learning and problem-based learning, based on what you learned through the week's "ponder" and "share" assignments.
· Week 4: Give examples of data gathering and analysis that would facilitate learning, demonstrate understanding, or be a culminating piece in your service-learning project
· Week 5: Integrate content into service learning project
· Week 6: Create web page or other PR-type media to publicize service learning project; create rubrics to assess student involvement and/or expected outcomes of service learning
Present
Your weekly projects will be posted in the discussion area so others can benefit from your ideas as well as give additional creative suggestions. You will be expected to post your project, along with your educational philosophy which motivated you to create this project. You will also be expected to respond to at least one other participant’s project and philosophical post. Your project and your philosophical post (in the SAME post) will be worth 25 points and your response to a fellow participant will be worth 10 points for a total of 140 points. Evaluation/Grading: Share: 25 pts. weekly x 6 weeks = 150 pts Prepare/Present: 25 pts. + 10 pts. weekly x 4 weeks = 210 pts TOTAL: 360 points 100-90% A
89-80% B 79-70% C 69-60% D Bibliography: Astin, Alexander W. , Lori J. Vogelgesang, Elaine K. Ikeda, and Jennifer A. Yee. "How Service Learning Affects Students." 2000. 20 Oct 2005 <http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/PDFs/HSLAS/HSLAS.PDF>.
Billig, Ph.D., Shelley H. "The Impacts of Service-Learning on Youth, Schools and Communities: Research on K-12 School-Based Service-Learning, 1990–1999." . 20 Oct 2005 http://www.learningindeed.org/research/slresearch.html
Clarke, Ed.D., Melinda . "'Q & A' on Service-Learning and its Role in Education." Center for Educational Practice. 03 2005. School of Education, Union University. 20 Oct. 2005 <http://www.uu.edu/centers/edpractice/servicelearning/research-detail.cfm?ID=42>.
Eyler, Janet S. , Dwight E. Giles, Jr., and Charlene J. Gray. "At a Glance: What We Know About the Effects of Service-Learning on colleges, Students, Faculty, Institutions and Communities, 1993-2000: Third Edition." 31 2001. 20 Oct 2005 <http://www.compact.org/resource/aag.pdf>.
Minkler, Ph.D., John . "Service Learning." Active Citizenship: Empowering America's Youth. 04 2002. Center for Multicultural Cooperation. 20 Oct. 2005 <http://www.activecitizenship.org/service.html>.
Rhem, James. "Problem-Based Learning: An Introduction." National Teaching and Learning Forum 8.1 (1998): n. page. Web. 15 Jun 2010. <http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9812/pbl_1.htm>.
Wilson, Brent Gayle. Constructivist Learning Environments: Case Studies in Instructional Design. Englewood Clifffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications, Inc., 1996. 135 - 146. 15 June 2010. <http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mpsHa5f712wC&oi=fnd&pg=PA135&dq=what+is+problem-based+learning&ots=sWghBd9YPk&sig=MQwwCgg5TcPmqXlybS6SaNZki2Q#v=onepage&q=what%20is%20problem-based%20learning&f=false>
Additional resources to be supplied at a later date.
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