ISTC 301

StandardsWeb Design & Development

Teaching with Tech Standards

“The digital-age teaching professional must demonstrate a vision of technology infusion and develop the technology

skills of others. These are the hallmarks of the new education leader (Knezek, 2008).”

Guidelines for teachers: skills & attitudes National Educational Technology Standards

(NETS) Maryland Teacher Technology Standards

(MTTS)

Demonstrate standards alignment in PTE and portfolio

MTTS Group Activity

Review your groups’ assigned standard, then present the standard and share an example activity that may be implemented in the classroom as evidence of meeting the standard. Be specific about the pedagogical goal and the technology used to address it.

Online Portfolio Project Rubric

Content (see below) - 60 points Web design (readable, professional, navigable, correct grammar and spelling) - 10

points

A complete online portfolio should include a page for each of the following components (60 points): An introduction page with name, professional info, and picture (examples here and here) Inspiration web Summary of and link to learning theories project Content software evaluation project (summary of findings; links to BCPS rubric and

PowerPoint presentation) Assistive technology screenshot of alt tag in SharePoint Blogging & Web 2.0 (screenshot of blog post and link to blog post) Digital storytelling (brief description of story; picture from story; screenshot of video) Practical teaching experience (links to lesson plan, presentation, reflection) Reflection: review and reflect upon the views on classroom technology use blog post that

you wrote at the beginning of the semester.

In addition, for each of these components you must identify one or two of the MTTS and briefly discuss how you see your work (both your thinking, and the product) on the project as being representative of the outcome prescribed within the standard.

Web Design Guidelines: User-centered design

Who is your audience?

Good structure and organizationClear, consistent, and easy navigationSimple, clean design

Readability: be wary of color choices!

ProfessionalProofread!

Web Page Development with SharePoint

Create root portfolio folder Everything for website goes in folder!

Connect to WWW folder on Tiger \\tiger\yourusername\WWW

Naming conventions Folder name & document name must have NO spaces,

punctuation, funny characters like *$%@´~`

Create home page Save as index.html Name, professional info, and picture

Web Page Development

Text

Images .jpg & .gif only Clip art From file Resize

• Colorso Background, text, and links

Links External Internal: link to inspiration.html & create

consistent navigation within site

Web Page Development

Using tables for layout & design

Preview in browser

Check your site http://tiger.towson.edu/~username/

portfolio/

Online Portfolio Development

Create a new page for each portfolio component (i.e., inspiration.html) - see rubric for list of components. Save into portfolio folder!

Update internal navigation as you go so that users can find their way around your site

See wiki for project details