Spring 2005 EPFA 407/507 Teaching Technology in Higher Education (1CR)

Sarah Stacy Iannarone	Fridays 2:00-3:00 p.m
Email: sari@pdx.edu	Web Resources:
Mobile: 503.310.7762	web.pdx.edu/~sari/resources.html

Week 1: Introduction to Technology Education

Discussion: Role of Technology in Liberal Education

Integrating UNST goals & technology training

Week 2: Introduction to PSU resources

PSU network accounts (email, WebCT, web hosting), quotas, OIT help

Applications overview

FTP: Dagdha and Odin

Week 3: Web Design Introduction

How does the WWW work, anyhow?

Web design ethics and etiquette (Article on Accessibility)

HTML and Web Design basics

Week 4: Website Development

Mind Mapping: Toward effective navigation

FrontPage, Composer and other web development tools

WYSIWYG vs. Hand coding (opinion piece)

Links, Images, and Navigation

Hyperlinks in Frontpage, Hyperlinks in HTML

Week 5: E-portfolio Development

E-Portfolios and Student Learning (Reynolds and Labissiere)

Week 6: Quantitative Literacy

Basic Excel Tutorial

Saving an Excel spreadsheet as a webpage

Week 7: Technology and Presentations (PowerPoint)

PowerPoint pitfalls and pointers

Saving PowerPoint presentations to the web

Week 8: Basic Image Manipulation (using Adobe Photoshop)

Working with files

Layers and Selection

Saving Images for the web

Week 9: Advanced Web Development

Complete websites and load to web

Week 10: Website Presentation,

Peer Review and Evaluation