Questionnaire

Name: Dianne Fulton

Email: dianne@warpnet.net

Homepage: http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/dfulton/eportfolio.html

Current Professional Position & Location:
3rd Grade teacher at Fairview Elementary School in Springfield, Illinois

Grade Level(s) You Work with on a Regular Basis:
3rd Grade (Intermediate)

Teaching and Non-Teaching Responsibilities:
Self-contained classroom teacher, SAP Core Team, Science Committee, Member of our Site –Based Leadership Team, Member of Student Review Team, Literacy Team

 

 

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I. To Facilitate Collaborative Projects

Personal Interests

Troubleshooting

Streaming Media

Advanced Client-Side Browser Functionality

Server-Side Scripting

II. Favorite Sites

III. Information for CTER Tech Support

 

Additional Information

Next year, I will co-facilitate our elementary building’s Technology Representative. 

 

 

I. To Facilitate Collaborative Projects

Personal Interests

Why are you interested in this course?

I want to learn more about creating websites and using technology to increase student learning in areas that are pertinent to my grade level.

What do you hope to learn?

I am hoping to learn how to become proficient at advanced techniques like movie making, audio and video streaming…

How would you like to make use of the work you do for this course?

I would like to make a webpage that I can use in my classroom for a particular area of study, and of course gain the knowledge to use this in other areas.


 

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Troubleshooting

What kinds of technical troubleshooting are you called upon to do in your job?

Helping others with their email, finding websites, using the district Intranet.

Do you need to keep individual computers or networks up and running in a classroom, a lab, a school, or a district?

I am responsible for my own classroom computer work stations, but I can call on technical support if needed.

What, if anything, do you wish you knew how to do better in the area of troubleshooting?

Determining where the printing problems are.

How do you think Ed Psy 490-I could help you learn about those things?

Identifying our own individual problem areas, and going from there.


 

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Streaming Media

Do you have access to a video camera?  If so, is it digital (MiniDV, Digital8), analog (VHS, Hi8), or web cam (computer peripheral, no tape used)? Have you ever used it to record audio/video?

I am borrowing the school’s video camera for the summer. It is an RCA

VHS  DSP3.  I have used it to video tape my students.

Have you ever produced streaming video before?

If so, what format? (e.g. RealVideo, QuickTime, Windows Media, Streaming PowerPoint, etc.)
What software did you use to encode/edit the video? (e.g. RealProducer, QuickTime Pro, etc.)

No

Have you ever copied or captured video from a camcorder, VCR or other external video source to a computer?

No.

Have you ever created a screen movie (captured events and images on the computer screen and converted to video format)?

If so, did you include an audio track with the movie (e.g. narration, music, etc.)
What software did you use? (e.g. SnagIt, Windows Media Encoder, etc.)

Very little experience using Imovie during Project Lincol’n- but I do not have an Imac at home.

Do you already have a video that you would like to stream on the Internet?

If so, is it on tape, or on the computer?
If not, would you prefer to have a video (raw material) provided for you to work with,
or would you make your own with a video camera?

I would rather make my own with a video camera, I am checking into borrowing one, but I don’t know as of this time.

Is this an area you would like to learn more about? If so, how do you think it might be useful for you?

Yes, I think this would be useful.

Would you like to make use of these kinds of technologies in your 490-I course project? If so, how?

I am thinking of making a webpage relating to a science unit, and I could use the video streaming and/or audio streaming on this.


 

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Advanced Client-Side Browser Functionality

Do you have any experience with writing computer code for any add-on technologies which work together with web browsers?  Some examples would be coding JavaScript and/or DHTML within web pages, incorporating scriptable plug-ins such as HyperStudio or Macromedia's Director, Authorware or Flash programs, and writing or deploying browser applets in the Java programming language.  These kinds of technologies are generally used to create eye-catching displays on browsers - e.g. math and science activities involving drawing or dragging screen elements, or flashy animated menus.

No

Is this an area you would like to learn more about? If so, how do you think it might be useful for you?

I don’t think so at this time.

Would you like to make use of these kinds of technologies in your 490-I course project? If so, how?

I don’t think so at this time.


 

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Server-Side Scripting

Do you have any experience with writing computer code for any add-on technologies which work together with web servers? Some examples would be coding for database-browser interaction (possibly using Active Server Pages scripting, ColdFusion, or Filemaker's CDML),or writing or running custom CGI scripts written in Perl or another scripting language.  These kinds of technologies are generally used to facilitate collaboration among users - e.g. via interfaces familiar to CTER users like WebBoards, Blackboard/CourseInfo, our C-Base, interactive papers, etc.

No.

Is this an area you would like to learn more about? If so, how do you think it might be useful for you?

I do not know.

Would you like to make use of these kinds of technologies in your 490-I course project? If so, how?

I do not know.


 

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II. Favorite Sites

1. What are some of your favorite educational websites that employ some kind of advanced functionality (beyond simple HTML)?

2. What advanced features do these sites have, and what is educationally useful about them for your area and level of teaching?

The URLs you list here will constitute a "starter" set of useful annotated links that the class will add to collaboratively, using a web-enabled database on the CTER server (http://cternt.ed.uiuc.edu/resourcer).


Replace this Text with Hyperlinked Name of Site (e.g -- Yahoo!)

 

Funbrain.com     This site offers varying levels of difficulty for math.


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http://www.enchantedlearning.com   Many of the units I teach can be found here, such as dinosaurs, solar system, butterflies…


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http://historychannel.com  We look up historical events and dates and get speeches and videos.


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I know I have more on my computers at school, but I simply can’t remember them right now! Especially the sites on wild weather with real video.


 
 

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III. Information for CTER Tech Support

Do you have a Windows machine or Macintosh?

Windows

What's the version number of the operating system? (e.g. Win98, MacOS 8)

Win98SE

Processor speed? (e.g. 500 MHz or G3)

466MHz.

Amount of free space on hard disk? (GB or MB)

5 gig.

What type of Internet connection? (e.g. cable modem, DSL, dialup 56K, etc.)

Dialup56K

What software do you usually use to transfer files to and from a server?

(e.g. WS_FTP, Fetch, uploading feature of a web editor such as Front Page, etc.)
What other ways do you know to upload files to a server?

WS FTP.


 

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