Welcome to TIE300!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Introduction to Technology in the Classroom

TIE 300 Course Description: This is an introductory survey course with emphasis on technology skill development and appropriate ways to use technology across the curriculum. Students learn computer literacy and its use in education through hands-on activities, such as word processing, presentation software, graphics and instructional software, basic web design, and Web 2.0 Internet resources. Students create technology projects and discuss and reflect on effective integration strategies utilizing those technology projects in the classroom.

Students will be working collaboratively to create and design a virtual field on Wikispaces. Here are some examples of previous students' work:

Winter TIE 300 Wikis:

Team One - McHenry County College: Eren, Cindy, & Russ

Team Two - McHenry County College: Amanda & Jess

Team Three - McHenry County College: Liz & Lauren

Team One - Rock Valley College: Kevin & Rhonda

Team Two - Rock Valley College: Tomas & Liz

Team Three - Rock Valley College: Starla, Jennifer & Colleen

Reflective Blog #1

Students will be asked to create their own blog accounts in class on Thursday. To learn more about creating their own account, they may take a quick tour of the process, watch a video tutorial, and/or discover more features located on the start page.

During the course, the students will post three reflective blogs. They may be asked to respond to course readings, generate technology integration ideas, prepare an annotated bibliography, or evaluate websites, and so on. Through this public online forum, they will help each other to better understand the issues related to technology integration.