A week ago, we completed an inclass activity that demonstrated how plagiarism software such as Turntin works. Now that you have experienced how plagiarism detection software can be used by teachers to check the originality of student work (although such software is not always perfect), it is time to see how to use this software to improve your writing.
There are many issues related to the social, ethical, legal, and human issues of technology. We have discussed plagiarism and copyright law. This report is to examine the issue of gender bias. The report must be one to two pages (double-spaced) should answer the following questions:
• What is the definition of gender bias (as related to the use of computers)?
• Is there evidence that a technology gender gap and gender bias exist?
• Why are girls in their adolescent years losing interest in computers?
• What are the differences and similarities between how males and females perceive and use technology?
• What role do parents, educators, and manufacturers have in encouraging (and discouraging) technology use among females?
Write on the given topic in YOUR OWN WORDS. You not need to add a reference list or in line citations for this assignment (Note that you should do so in most writing assignments: this is the exception rather than the rule). Once you are through writing the report, submit the new document through Turnitin as the assignment Report. The report duplicate count should be 25% or less. If not, you will need to revise your work until the percentage goes down. Submit a hard copy of your revised paper and the Turnitin report to the instructor and an electronic version to your IT Portfolio folder on your flash drive.
You may find the following online resources helpful:
Association for Computing Machinery report on the gender gap
http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/nic-interim-report/
BBC News report, “Gender Gap Alive and Well Online”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4555370.stm
Closing the Technological Gender Gap
http://www.edutopia.org/computer-science-technology-gender-gap
Young Women Steer Clear of Tech Careers, http://archives.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/westcentral/07/06/tgm.women.tech/index.html
PEW/Internet, How Women and Men Use the Internet
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/171/report_display.asp
Gender and Computer Games
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue4/hartmann.html
For the Tuesday night class this is due on April 13 at the beginning of class
For the Monday/Wednesday class this is due on April 14 at the beginning of class
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Final Portfolio Directions
As we are now past the midpoint of the term; it is time to begin organizing our work in a final portfolio. We will begin this process this week and continue to build this document until the first week of May. As you can see some of these assignments are not yet complete, we will add them to the portfolio as we complete them.
You will need a notebook not larger than 1 inch (1/2 inch should work fine) with a clear pocket on the front. You will place a cover sheet in this pocket. A second copy of the cover sheet should be placed as the first page of the portfolio inside the notebook.
You also need a set of eight tabs, a permanent marker, a CD RW (read/write) with a jewel case and a small braded envelope to place in the back of the notebook to hold the CD This should be a small 5 by 7 braded envelope that you will punch holes in so that it is attached to the notebook by the notebook rings or brads. I should be able to open the envelope to retrieve the CD without having to tear the envelope so select a braded style or one with a closure that can be refastened. The permanent marker is so you can label your CD (fine point Sharpe works well)
Do not spend a lot of money on office supplies; I do not score your work on office supplies. You do not need to include color printouts since we do not have a color printer in the lab. I do not want large notebooks because these are difficult to store. These portfolios will not be returned. Please make a duplicate for your own use.
Summary shopping list:
For the second step, review the contents of the portfolio. The needed items should be placed in this order. The items in bold text are your tabs.
RubiStar
Superkids
PBL Checklists
Ethical issues in technology
Movie
o Reflection on using movies for education (the Word file should be in your portfolio folder)
o Movie (The finished movie should be in your portfolio folder)
o Printout of blog
o Reflection on using Google Groups for Education (The Word file should be in your portfolio folder)
Concept map for students (make this a hyperlink to file)
Concept Map for lesson planning (make this a hyperlink to file)
Games and activities
Assessment tools
Report on ethical issues of technology (make this a hyperlink to file)
Movie (make this a hyperlink to file)
Web page
You should create a folder on your flash drive titled IT 365 Final Portfolio. Everything you will add to your portfolio will be in this folder. This is important so that your documents can be linked electronically and so that all parts can be easily copied to a CD that you will turn in with your project. Do not save your files in random locations since you will have to locate them and move them to the portfolio folder to burn them to the CD.
You will need a notebook not larger than 1 inch (1/2 inch should work fine) with a clear pocket on the front. You will place a cover sheet in this pocket. A second copy of the cover sheet should be placed as the first page of the portfolio inside the notebook.
You also need a set of eight tabs, a permanent marker, a CD RW (read/write) with a jewel case and a small braded envelope to place in the back of the notebook to hold the CD This should be a small 5 by 7 braded envelope that you will punch holes in so that it is attached to the notebook by the notebook rings or brads. I should be able to open the envelope to retrieve the CD without having to tear the envelope so select a braded style or one with a closure that can be refastened. The permanent marker is so you can label your CD (fine point Sharpe works well)
Do not spend a lot of money on office supplies; I do not score your work on office supplies. You do not need to include color printouts since we do not have a color printer in the lab. I do not want large notebooks because these are difficult to store. These portfolios will not be returned. Please make a duplicate for your own use.
Summary shopping list:
- Notebook that is not larger than 1” with a clear front pocket to hold a cover sheet.
- Fine point permanent marker
- RW CD with jewel case
- 5 by 7 Braded envelopes
- Set of 8 Tabs
- A page border
- An image
- The following information centered
Your name
IT 365
Computer Applications in Education
Final Portfolio
Dr. Karen Juneau’s Section
Spring 2010
For the second step, review the contents of the portfolio. The needed items should be placed in this order. The items in bold text are your tabs.
Plain sheet of paper
Cover page
Table of contents
Table of contents
Concept mapping
o Concept map reflection (The Word file should be in your portfolio folder)
o Concept map for students (The isf. file should be in your portfolio folder)
o Concept Map for lesson planning (The isf. file should be in your portfolio folder)
Web tools
o Reflection on web tools (The Word file should be in your portfolio folder)
o Games and activities- List of hyperlinks (must be hot) links to games with short description of eEach game. (The Word file should be in your portfolio folder)
- Print out of the first page of each game in the same order as listed in the link list.
- List of assessment tool hyperlinks and a short description of what each site generates. (The Word file should be in your portfolio folder)
- Print out of sample assessment tools
Quizstar
BigBus Testmaker RubiStar
Superkids
PBL Checklists
o Reflection on plagiarism activity (The Word file should be in your portfolio folder)
o Report on ethical issues of technology ( The Word file should be in your portfolio folder)
Movie
o Movie (The finished movie should be in your portfolio folder)
Web page
o Reflection on educational Web pages (you should include a link to your web page)
o Printout of web page
Home page Resource page (note: this should be title of the page you created)
Lesson page (note: this should be title of the page you created)
About me page (note: this should be title of the page you created)
Blog
o Reflection on using blogs for education( Include a hyperlink to your blog)o Printout of blog
Assistive technology
o Assistive technology assignment (The Word file should be in your portfolio folder)Google Group
o Reflection on using Google Groups for Education (The Word file should be in your portfolio folder)
Your table of contents should look like this (you may copy and paste this; delete the link notes. you may need to clean up the formatting after you copy it, see your hardcopy. Remember to delete format notes.)
Table of contents
Concept mapping
Concept map reflection (make this a hyperlink to file)Concept map for students (make this a hyperlink to file)
Concept Map for lesson planning (make this a hyperlink to file)
Web tools
Reflection on web tools (make this a hyperlink to file)Games and activities
Assessment tools
Ethical issues in technology
Reflection on plagiarism activity (make this a hyperlink to file)Report on ethical issues of technology (make this a hyperlink to file)
Movie
Reflection on using movies for education (make this a hyperlink to file)Movie (make this a hyperlink to file)
Web page
Reflection on educational Web pages (make this a hyperlink to file)Web page
Blog
Reflection on using blogs for education (make this a hyperlink to file) Blog
Assistive technology
Assistive technology assignment (make this a hyperlink to file) Google Group
Reflection on using Google Groups for Education (make this a hyperlink to file)
Monday, March 8, 2010
Evil Ad Gremlins that Steal Your Blog
A student had a problem with their blog today. For a brief second when they logged into their page, the page could be seen and then it would redirect the viewer to an ad page.
After much searching and a couple hours of work, I found that the problem was caused by a bad widget. In this case, it was something called "Zen Aquarium" . Do not ad this widget to your page and if this problem occurs the only fix is to delete gadgets (widgets) until you delete the problem. Unfortunately this means you will have to add back the widgets you want. You need to add the Feedjit widget back for this class if you deleted it or if I had to delete it to fix the page.
Now the question I would really like answered is why any company thinks advertising by corrupting web pages is a good idea. I am thinking about starting an offenders list so that we can avoid buying the products of these companies in the future. I know that my students are less that thrilled to have to repair the damage to their pages and I am equally happy that it is now midnight and my papers are still not finished since this fix took much longer to find than I expected. Fair warning to ad gremlins; I am making a list.
After much searching and a couple hours of work, I found that the problem was caused by a bad widget. In this case, it was something called "Zen Aquarium" . Do not ad this widget to your page and if this problem occurs the only fix is to delete gadgets (widgets) until you delete the problem. Unfortunately this means you will have to add back the widgets you want. You need to add the Feedjit widget back for this class if you deleted it or if I had to delete it to fix the page.
Now the question I would really like answered is why any company thinks advertising by corrupting web pages is a good idea. I am thinking about starting an offenders list so that we can avoid buying the products of these companies in the future. I know that my students are less that thrilled to have to repair the damage to their pages and I am equally happy that it is now midnight and my papers are still not finished since this fix took much longer to find than I expected. Fair warning to ad gremlins; I am making a list.
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