MCSD High School InTech Links and Assignments
Georgia High School InTech Manual Revised 7/15/02

Day One
Day Two
Day Three
Day Four
Day Five
Day Six
Day Seven
Supplements

DAY ONE - ORGANIZE AND PLAN

ACTIVITIES
LINKS
ASSIGNMENTS FOR NEXT SESSION
  • Take AssessOnline
  • Develop Individual PowerPoint Intro
  • Share PowerPoint Intros
  • Explore Inspiration 
  • Develop your own Inspiration chart
  • Share Inspiration charts 
  • Review basic computer terminology 
  • Respond to journal topic
  • Discuss use of school email 
  • Buy stock in three companies
  • Create an email account
  • Discuss lesson plans
  • Complete brain check
  • Read your journal article and respond to the instructor's email before class. 
  • If you did not finish purchasing stocks in three companies and printing your first stock report, complete these steps and bring the printout to class. 
  • Read over the One-Computer Classroom Ideas (preface pages 39-40), the step-by-step pages for the activities we did today, and the Quick Tips in the appendix section of the notebook for any software covered today. 
  • Find a picture of an influential person to scan and use as part of a PowerPoint presentation on Day 4.  NOTE: This picture should be in a book or magazine, NOT printed from a website.  Please select a person you can research on the Internet.
  • Journal Article:  Betts, F. (1994). Technology and the Coherent Curriculum Guide to Learning and Leading with Technology, [P. Neal editor]. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. [Not available electronically]
 

DAY TWO - RESEARCH AND DISCOVER

ACTIVITIES
LINKS
ASSIGNMENTS FOR NEXT SESSION
  • Respond to journal topic
  • Learn about the Internet and the World Wide Web 
  • Explore Georgia Learning Connections (QCCs)
  • Explore GALILEO
  • Explore other Web resources 
  • Create a flyer using Publisher 
  • Review and expand word processing basics 
RESOURCES FOR LESSON PLANS Search Engines GLOBETROTTERS RESEARCH


 

DAY THREE - COLLABORATE AND ASSESS

ACTIVITIES
LINKS
ASSIGNMENTS FOR NEXT SESSION
  • Respond to journal topic
  • Explore the stages of the stock market
  • Learn about learning theories
  • Organize cooperative learning groups 
  • Create tables in Word 
  • Experiment with simulation software--Decisions, Decisions: The Environment 
  • Create a newsletter in Publisher 
  • Explore lines of symmetry
Stages of the Stock Market Funderstanding
Cooperative Learning
Cooperative Group Skills
Jigsaw
Rubric Builder
The Staff Room: Rubrics
 

Lines of Symmetry

  • Read your journal article and respond to the instructor's email before class. 
  • Check your stocks and print out a report.
  • Read over the step-by-step pages for the activities we did today, and the Quick Tips in the appendix section of the notebook for any software covered today. 
  • Bring a picture of your influential person to scan.
  • Meet with your team to plan your tri-board presentation.
  • Recommended:  Submit a draft of lesson plan #2.
  • Journal article:  O'Neil, John. Teachers and Technology: Potential and Pitfalls.

 


 
 

 

DAY FOUR- PRODUCE AND PUBLISH

ACTIVITIES
LINKS
ASSIGNMENTS FOR NEXT SESSION
  • Respond to journal topic
  • Work with stages of the stock market with Encarta 
  • Take learning styles inventories
  • Discuss classroom management strategies
  • Use a digital camera 
  • Use a scanner 
  • Collect information about and images of an influential person
  • Create a PowerPoint presentation and insert digital images you created and collected
  • Share PowerPoint presentations
  • Record important dates in Timeliner
Learning Style Inventories: Encarta Encyclopedia
  • Read your journal article and respond to the instructor's email before class. 
  • Check your stocks and print out a report.
  • Read over the step-by-step pages for the activities we did today, and the Quick Tips in the appendix section of the notebook for any software covered today. 
  • Recommended:  Submit a draft of lesson plan #3.
  • Journal article:  Whitaker, L. (February 1995). Aim Straight at the Curriculum. Electronic School.

 
 

 

DAY FIVE - ANALYZE AND EVALUATE

ACTIVITIES
LINKS
ASSIGNMENTS FOR NEXT SESSION
  • Work with the stages of the stock market 
  • Create a database in Access 
  • Research chemical elements and enter information into a database 
  • Create a Venn diagram 
  • Graph your stock investment (five printouts required)
  • Solve a murder mystery with Excel
Stages of the Stock Market: Periodic Table of the Elements
Boyle's Gas Law
Infonation

VennDiagram.com

  • Read your journal article and respond to the instructor's email before class. 
  • Check your stocks and print out a report.
  • Read over the step-by-step pages for the activities we did today, and the Quick Tips in the appendix section of the notebook for any software covered today. 
  • Recommended:  Submit a draft of lesson plan #4.
  • Journal article:  Peck, K., Dorricott, D. (1994). Why Use Technology? Educational Leadership, 51,7. 
NOTE:  If you plan to "graduate" on Day 7, all lesson plans should be completed by Day 6.  (Otherwise, you're at the mercy of the instructor's schedule!)

DAY SIX - WEB PUBLISHING

ACTIVITIES
LINKS
ASSIGNMENTS FOR NEXT SESSION
  • Discuss the use of instructional websites
  • Explore instructional websites
  • Develop a website using Netscape Composer 
  • Learn about HTML
  • Explore free website hosting options
  • "Snag" a website 
  • Find and save graphics from the Internet 
  • Save Word and PowerPoint documents as webpages
Free Web Hosts
  • Read your journal article and respond to the instructor's email before class. 
  • Read over the step-by-step pages for the activities we did today, and the Quick Tips in the appendix section of the notebook for any software covered today. 
  • Finish team tri-board presentation.
  • Journal article: November, Alan. (1997).  Magic Links:  Changing the Focus of Technology Planning.  Learning and Leading with Technology, 24, 54-56. [Not available electronically]
 

DAY SEVEN - INTERACTIVE LESSONS

ACTIVITIES
LINKS
  • Discuss the options for non-linear PowerPoint presentations
  • Create a non-linear PowerPoint presentation 
  • Play InTech Jeopardy 
  • Create a team Jeopardy game
  • Review news websites 
  • Take AssessOnline
  • Present tri-boards
  • Receive awards and certificates!
Current Events Research and Multimedia Presentation Teach Georgia Job Listings

SUPPLEMENTAL LINKS
Educational Technology Training Center - Columbus State University
MCSD TechCenter Curriculum Links

SOFTWARE
Inspiration
TimeLiner [Tom Synder Productions]
Microsoft Office [templates, clip art, updates]
Microsoft Encarta
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Windows Media Player
Apple QuickTime
WebWasher

Clip Art
Website Activity

Stock Market

Dow Jones Industrial Average
NASDAQ
American Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Standard and Poor
Fortune 500
Global Securities Information
Securities and Exchange Commission

Logos of Companies and Agencies - Samples

Rubrics
Discovery School (Kathy Schrock)
Landmark Project: Rubric Builder
Kennesaw: Assessment Rubrics
The Staff Room for Ontario's Teachers
San Diego State:  Rubrics for Web Lessons
Cooperative Learning
Missouri: Cooperative Learning
Kennesaw: Cooperative Learning
Classroom Management Strategies
Kennesaw:  Classroom Management Strategies
Biographical Research
Who2
Biography
Index of Inventors
Biographical Dictionary
Indexes of [Mathematical] Biographies
Tech Tips
TechTV
One Computer Guy
Microsoft Classroom Tools (Must be downloaded and installed)
Office 2000 Tips & Tricks Archive
Microsoft Tutorials
Comparison of Office XP and 2000
Timer
MCSD InTech