ECOMP 7010: Final Project

Directions: You will choose one current, or emerging technology, or Internet resource, and incorporate it into a lesson using a constructivist approach. Your final project needs to include the following:

1. A brief statement of your goal for this lesson.
2. A description of your school setting as it relates to your lesson, including curriculum requirements, technology access, the number of students involved and anything about your students that would be relevant.
3. Three of the standards (state or national) the lesson will address.
4. A description of the existing lesson, or proposed lesson, that you’ll be infusing additional technology into, including goals, time frame, class groupings, technology used.
5. The questions you will pose to your students and the tasks you will ask them to do. This is the most important part of your project and will demonstrate your creativity and imagination.  You will reference the specific use of the technology or Internet resource, and how your students will do their information gathering, research and problem solving.  Include annotated links where needed to cite resources.
6. A sample project.  This will be created by you, and will serve as a model for your students.  The link to the project, or the attached document, must be included in your project.
7. Include at least 2 screen shots or other images. Annotated references should be listed at the end.

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Student Exemplars: 4 Ways to Link QR Codes

ECOMP 5007: Final Project #2 - Field Research & Presentation

WriteRoom, Distraction-Free Writing

Overview
In our second final project, I was excited to have the opportunity to work with a staff member who is strong in this area of knowledge to create a meaningful product to share with my fellow teachers. Actually, it was a random comment of mine to our assistive technology specialist about a recent application I had heard about on our MLTI laptops that sparked this great conversation on how WriteRoom could be a great tool for both mainstream and special needs students. I knew for certain we were on the right track when she and I presented our findings to the language arts department and saw the light bulbs come on almost immediately. One teacher made the comment that WriteRoom is, “just cool enough that every student will want to use it, so that special needs students won’t feel singled out or segregated when they need to use it for their classwork.”

• View web presentation below, or click here.

WriteRoom

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ECOMP 5007: Final Project #1 - Resource Brochure

Tonic-Clonic Seizures

a How-To Guide for Teachers

Overview

For our first of two final projects, it was uncanny how the timing of this assignment synced so well with the introduction of a student into my school who suffers from tonic-clonic seizures. It gave me the perfect opportunity to sit down with the school nurse and construct an informational resource for teachers, administrators, and support staff. Where knowledge is power, now we as a staff know what tonic-clonic seizures are and what to do if the student experiences one. In addition, we have learned how to incorporate this disability into our school culture so that the student can have as much of a normal middle school experience as possible while also being ready to give aid when it is needed.

• View brochure online from iWork.com
• Access embedded video "What Would You Do…?" here.

ECOMP 6102: Reasoning Paper - Final

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