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 6101: Grant Proposal

Fill-in the answers related to the "purpose or concept" questions of a proposal:  

a. My proposed project is equipping classrooms with an iPad2, HDMI-equipped television, and Apple TV unit as an alternative to interactive whiteboard technology.

b. Technology will be integrated as students (and/or teachers) will be able to use this setup to interactive with digital content equally and from anywhere within the classroom.
   
c. I will be able to show that this project is effective by:

1. Scheduling regular feedback sessions with teachers to share success stories with their peers and problem-solve frustrations and/or mistakes in implementation. 
2. Using online surveys to ask for student feedback on their integration into the classroom and their favorite apps. to use in class. 
3. Provide training for students and staff with the goal of using this setup to present digital portfolios during scheduled student-led conferences.

If you have a grant source identified let me know:
     The EFKA (Educational Foundation of the Kennebunks and Arundel)

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Final Project Proposal: Dropbox

For my final project, I've decided to investigate the program Dropbox and a companion tool called DropitTOme. Earlier this year I helped one of my 8th grade science teachers setup this system because he was having problems using his MobileMe account to collect student homework digitally. Then, just this past week our Assistive Technology Specialist mentioned Dropbox to our IT Director. When I mentioned the pilot I was doing with the science teacher my boss asked if I would develop a presentation on Dropbox for our next department meeting.

There are several implications for Dropbox for both teachers and students:

• It uses cloud-computing technology, something our district is looking very hard at with our conversion this summer to Google Apps. for education.
• It allows access to the data from any computer with Internet access, plus syncing technology to those computers teachers have control of.
• The system, when integrated with DropitTOme, allows students to securely submit work to their teachers from their laptops in class, in study hall, or from home.
• Dropbox has a mobile app. version (this is what our Ass. Tech. Specialist was originally writing about). This means teachers and students could  possibly gain access to content they create on their laptops from their mobile devices.

 Having just spent the past week dueling with every single one of our network printers on one issue or another, anything I can do to support paperless communication between teachers and students is time well spent. Dropbox and DropitTOme may prove to not be the answer to all of our prayers, but if they come close then at least they will be one more tool that I can offer my constituents.

~Tally-ho!