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(1) Focus of your portfolio: The goal of SED 514 is to equip teachers with technical and
pedagogical skills to enhance teaching and learning. You will prepare a 514-portfolio
(electronic or paper) of your work, illustrating how computer technologies can be used to
improve the teaching and learning of a particular unit within your discipline. By the time
you are done with this class, you will have collected and developed resources that will
benefit you and your students. Please note that many of the activities in this portfolio may
be also used as artifacts for your professional teaching portfolio (PDP) .
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Complete the title page of the portfolio that includes you’re a photograph of you,
your name, school, subject taught, and topic for portfolio.
Identify the subject and topic for which your 514-portfolio will be developed.
Briefly describe the significance of this topic with respect to your curriculum.
Name
Mariam Nazloyan
Subject taught
English –Secondary
topic(s) for portfolio
Persuasive Writing
The emphasis is on the persuasive writing process. Students learn that Persuasive writing
allows them to use the power of language to inform and influence others. They also learn
through various smaller persuasive assignments that good persuasive writing
1) clearly states the issue and the writer’s position
2) gives opinions and supports them with facts or reasons
3) has a reasonable and respectful tone
4) takes into account and answers opposing views
5) uses sound logic and effective language
6) concludes by summing up reasons or calling for action
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By learning to write persuasively, students develop the necessary skills to communicate
and get their perspective across smoothly and professionally. With this skill, debating
and convincing in the professional arena is of utmost importance. Without a good means
of communication, there can be many obstacles that can hinder one’s social, familial, and
personal life.
(2) Documenting your work with screen capture: Screen capture programs allow the
user to take pictures of anything on their screen and save them as graphics files.
Download a screen capture program for your home computer and use it to take pictures
of items required in this portfolio.
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Demonstrate competency with a screen-capture utility by inserting a .jpg file of
keyboard shortcuts, contextual help menu, of the operating system you are using.
Note that virtually all programs and operating systems have help menus and
keyboard shorcuts. Consult these electronic help menus when you need to know
how to perform a particular operation.
(3) Backing-up and transporting your files: Always backup your files!!! You can: (a)
save them on USB drive or portable hard drive, (b) upload (ftp) them to your CSUN
account (uDrive), (c) move them to an Internet hard drive, or (d) send them as attached
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files accompanying email messages. Do one of the following:
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Save your work to your uDrive. The uDrive is an extra storage area that provides
additional disk space for campus users who wish to store their desktop files and
folders on a remote server. Include a screen capture.
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Develop an Internet hard drive using the Yahoo briefcase or similar resource. You
can send your files to your Internet hard drive and then retrieve them at home or
school. Include a screen capture.
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(4) Learning about your students. Most secondary school teachers must learn the
names of 150-200 students at the beginning of each academic year. This formidable task
is made much easier using a photographic seating chart. *TPE-tip Teachers may use
photographic seating charts, combined with student information surveys to learn about
their students early in the semester (TPE 8). Make certain to check with your school
regarding policies for photographing students.
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Use a digital camera to make a seating chart for one of the classes you teach or for
this class at CSUN.
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(5) Searching / Identifying Plagiarism. The ease of information access can accelerate
the learning process, but it can also be counter-productive by facilitating plagiarism.
Discuss the importance of intellectual honesty with your students and illustrate how you
can easily identify work plaigiarized from sites on the Internet.
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Using an advanced search engine with Boolean search features (such as
Altavista), find text from one of your students or from a website related to your
field that appears to be plagiarized. Copy and paste the text and the URLs of both
pieces in question. Alternatively, you may wish to use an online plagiarism
detection service such as tunitin.com
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http://en.wickipedia.org/wik/photosynthesis
(6) History of computers / graphic search engines. Answer the following questions
using information from technology education websites or other online resources. Make
certain that all information is in your own words. No credit can be given for information
that is identical to that of another student or a web page.
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Contributors to the development of the computer: Select five individuals who
have made significant contributions to the development of the computer. List the
contribution(s) of each individual and briefly describe its importance. See
technology education websites. Use a graphic search engine to find pictures of
each.
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Computer Generations: Computer historians have classified computers into
"generations" in an effort to identify the major technological advances upon
which the computers are built. Briefly identify the major features of each of the
first five generations of computers. See technology education websites. Use a
graphic search engine to find pictures of each.
Photo
Contributions to the development of computer
A mathematical genius, Turing proved instrumental in codebreaking efforts during World War II. His application of logic
to that realm would emerge even more significantly in his
development of the concept of a "universal machine.
Reported to be the richest private individual in the
World with a net worth of over 50 billion dollars. He
dropped out of Harvard to pursue a career in software,
founded Microsoft in the 1970s with Paul Allen. See
the "official" bio at Bill Gates' Microsoft Web Site or
Bill Gates: Before Microsoft by John Mirick
Invented/developed the Mark I
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He is the inventor of the electronic digital
computer
Founded Microsoft together with Bill Gates
generation
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Photo of key
component
Features
The ENIAC was the first successful electronic
digital computer. The Fiftieth Anniversary of
ENIAC is fast approaching.
The IBM 360 was a revolutionary advance in
computer system architecture, enabling a
family of computers covering a wide range of
price and performance.
The LGP30 was built by Litton General
Precision in the mid 1950's. It was
implemented with vacuum tubes and drum
memory. It used a Flexowriter for I/O. The
instructions had three addresses, two for the
operands and one for the next instruction.
Digital Equipment Corporation's first
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computer was the PDP-1.
(7) Making computers accessible to students: Given the importance of computers in
business and society, it is important that we provide students who have special needs
access via specialized software and hardware. Describe three data input or output devices,
or three OS or software options that may be used to make computers more accessible to
students with specific physical handicaps. *TPE-tip If you have students with special
needs in your class, you may wish to develop lesson plans illustrating how you have
made your curriculum accessible to them using adaptive hardware and/or software.
(TPE4)
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Experiment with the universal access features associated with your computer's
operating system and research third-party hardware and software solutions for
those with special needs. Describe three hardware or software solutions and
explain how they may help students with specific special needs.
1)Sticky keys is a feature of computer Desktop Environments. It is an
accessibility feature to aid handicapped users. Sticky keys allows the user to
press a modifier key, such as Shift, Ctrl, Alt, or the windows key, and have it
remain active until another key is pressed. It is activated by pressing the shift
key 5 times in sequence or by holding down a modifier key for longer than 5
seconds. When sticky keys is activated, a beep is sounded whenever the
Shift, Ctrl, windows key, or Alt keys are pressed henceforth.
STUDENTS, WHOSE HEARING IS IMPARED, CAN USE THE STICKY KEYS
TO REMAIN ACTIVE ON A CERTAIN TASK UNTIL ANOTHER KEY IS
PRESSED.
2)Flash Saver enables you to save all Flash animations from internet, including
Flash websites, Flash game, Flash MTV, Flash Movie, Flash advertisement, or
what ever Flash files you find in the web. What you need to do is just a simple
click! All Flash (swf files) will be downloaded from web browser to your local
hard disk. You can classify downloaded flash files, change names, add
comments, play, snapshot and more.
STUDENTS,
3)Voice over Internet Protocol (also called VoIP, IP Telephony, Internet
telephony, and Digital Phone) is the routing of voice conversations over the
Internet or any other IP-based network. The voice data flows over a generalpurpose packet-switched network, instead of traditional dedicated, circuitswitched voice transmission lines.
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(8) Computer knowledge. Teachers should be conversant with computer terminology
and concepts that pertain to the use of technology in their classrooms.
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Review the list of computer terms and concepts for educators and then take this
online quiz. Retake the quiz until you understand the terms and concepts and
score 90% or better. Include a screen shot of your first and final test results.
*TPE-tip If you have access to an online test-generation system such as WebCT,
Blackboard, or Quizmaker, you may wish to develop online self-quizes for your
students. (TPE2, TPE3)
Answers: SED 514 Computer
Terminology and Concepts for
Teachers
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0. Which of the following is a true statement regarding operating
systems?Your answer: Without an operating system, no
programs can runCORRECT!
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0. Which of the following is/are tasks of the operating system?Your
answer: all of the aboveCORRECT!
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0. Which of the following requires the greatest bandwidth?Your
answer: streaming high definition videoCORRECT!
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0. Which of the following best describes a blog?Your answer: A web
log on which students can share their journalsCORRECT!
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0. Beta software …Your answer: all of the aboveCORRECT!
0.
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0. Which of the following represents the largest amount of data?Your
answer: terabyteCORRECT!
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0. Which of the following graphics files would NOT appear pixilated
(show blocky pixels) if enlarged?Your answer: vector graphics
(created by Freehand, Illustrator, etc.)CORRECT!
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0. When information is uploaded it…Your answer: Sent to a host
computerCORRECT!
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0. If the performance (speed) of your computer has dropped and you
hear a lot of sputtering noises from your computer, it is likely
that you need to:Your answer: Defragment your hard drive so
files are no-longer broken in many pieces, but stored
efficiently so they can be read more quicklyCORRECT!
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0. When purchasing software for your school, you should invest in
cross-platform software if:Your answer: Your student
laboratory has Macs and PCsCORRECT!
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0. A school acceptable use policy (AUP) should includeYour answer:
all of the aboveCORRECT!
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0. Which of the following has the greatest need for encryptionYour
answer: Passwords for students to access their grades
onlineCORRECT!
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0. Wired and wireless communication have revolutionized research
capabilities for teachers and students. Which of the following
communication term pairs are not paired correctly?Your
answer: IEEE 1394 – InfraredCORRECT!
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0. There is a lot of erroneous information on the Internet, and this can
cause tremendous confusion, particularly as students perform
research for reports. However, students should always be able
to trust data from the following domain:Your answer: none of
the aboveCORRECT!
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0. Which one of the following is incorrectly matched?Your answer:
GUI - English class Shakespeare projectCORRECT!
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0. If students complain that your laboratory computers are too slow to
operate software for your class, you might request that school
techniciansYour answer: replace 512 MB DIMMs with 1 GB
DIMMsCORRECT!
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0. Which of the following would be classified as edutainment?Your
answer: AlgeBlaster, Oregon Trail, Discovery
ChannelCORRECT!
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0. Many application programs (word processors, spreadsheets,
databases) store data as text files. These ASCII (text) files are
given the .txt extension. Why would a teacher be interested in
saving files in this format?Your answer: 1 & 2CORRECT!
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0. Most school and district networks have firewalls. Which of the
following is NOTMany schools encourage their students to
save files on compact flash or secure digital cards (also known
as CF cards, USB drives, jump drives, thumb drives, multimedia cards). Which of the following is NOT a reason fYour
answer: A firewall protects the network from spontaneous
combustionCORRECT!
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0. Many schools encourage their students to save files on compact
flash or secure digital cards (also known as CF cards, USB
drives, jump drives, thumb drives, multi-media cards). Which of
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the following is NOT a reason for advising students to
purchase such devices.Your answer: They are cheaper than
CDsCORRECT!
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0. Extensions help users and software identify file types delivered via
the Internet. Which of the following sets of extension is most
commonly used in education.Your answer: .jpg .mp4 .pdf .doc
.xls .ppt .gif .txtCORRECT!
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0. Students should be taught good netiquette, particularly when
accessingYour answer: Email, newsgroups, web logs and
chatsCORRECT!
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0. Students should always be encouraged to save their work on two
forms of secondary memory storage such asYour answer: Hard
drive, optical discCORRECT!
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0. Which of the following is an example of analog, rather than digital
data?Your answer: A Monet paintingCORRECT!
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0. When ordering software for your school, it is important to check
“system requirements”. Which one of the system requirements
is mismatched?Your answer: Graphics card / Power PC G5,
2.0 GHz or betterCORRECT!
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0. Campus networks are particularly prone to “infection” from
malicious code and unwanted files that may decrease
performance, fill hard drives, or corrupt files. All of the
following fall into this category except:Your answer: System
files, startup filesCORRECT!
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0. Data/video projectors can be used to display graphics and text
related to your curriculum. Which of the following data
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projctors would give the sharpest and brightest image, and
therefore be the easiest for students to see?Your answer: DLP /
3200 lumens / 1024 x 768 pixelsCORRECT!
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0. Which of the following would allow students who were unable to
attend school (e.g. for medical or distance reasons) to
participate in real-time classroom discussions.Your answer:
asynchronous streaming video of the classCORRECT!
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0. Which of the following should schools have to prevent damage to
their computers or restore systems that have crashed?Your
answer: surge protector / spike protector / virus scan software
/ boot CD / password protected access /firewallCORRECT!
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0. Which of the following provides teachers may cause greatest
frustration to a teacher who is trying to post his or her grades to
the secure school website?Your answer: 56K dialupCORRECT!
Total score: 30/30 (100.00%).
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