Questionnaire

Name: Margie Adkins

Email: madkins@springfield.k12.il.us

Homepage: Adkins Portfolio

Current Professional Position & Location:
Teacher

Dubois School

Springfield, IL

Grade Level(s) You Work with on a Regular Basis:
5th grade

Teaching and Non-Teaching Responsibilities:
I team-teach with another teacher. This year I taught social studies to both of our classes while she taught the math. All other subjects we teach to our own classes.

I am the technology facilitator for my building.

 

 

    

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I. To Facilitate Collaborative Projects

II. Favorite Sites

III. Information for CTER Tech Support

 

Additional Information

 

  I. To Facilitate Collaborative Projects

Personal Interests
Why are you interested in this course?
I want to be able to use more and different technologies as part of my curriculum.
What do you hope to learn?
I hope to learn more advanced stuff than I'm already using.
How would you like to make use of the work you do for this course?
I'd like to incorporate it directly into my curriculum.

 
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Troubleshooting
What kinds of technical troubleshooting are you called upon to do in your job?
Usually simple stuff like reconnecting wires to the correct port or getting documents to print.
Do you need to keep individual computers or networks up and running in a classroom, a lab, a school, or a district?
Only in my own classroom.
What, if anything, do you wish you knew how to do better in the area of troubleshooting?
I'd like to be able to understand and/or fix error problems that come up.
How do you think Ed Psy 490-I could help you learn about those things?
I need to know more about how the operating systems work.

 
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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?
Our building has ordered a video camera, but I'm not sure what kind. I won't have access to it this summer.
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.)
I have created an imovie.
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 love to make my own, but since I don't have a camera I will probably need to have one provided.
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 would like to be able to video the Living History project that my classes do at Lincoln's Home.
Would you like to make use of these kinds of technologies in your 490-I course project? If so, how?
I'm not sure since I don't know what to do for a project yet.

 
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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.
I have no experience at all with this.
Is this an area you would like to learn more about? If so, how do you think it might be useful for you?
Absolutely. I would like my class to be able to put some of their projects on the web using these advanced techniques.
Would you like to make use of these kinds of technologies in your 490-I course project? If so, how?
Again, I'm not sure.

 
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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.
None
Is this an area you would like to learn more about? If so, how do you think it might be useful for you?
Yes, for the sake of knowledge only. I don't think I would be using it any time soon.
Would you like to make use of these kinds of technologies in your 490-I course project? If so, how?
No.

 
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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).


The Global Schoolhouse/Lightspan
 

It has classroom conferencing where you can use live video conferencing to communicate and collaborate with classrooms all over the world.


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III. Information for CTER Tech Support

Do you have a Windows machine or Macintosh?

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

Win98
Processor speed? (e.g. 500 MHz or G3)

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

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

56K dialup modem.
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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