Educational Technology Leaders

Instructor Sara Dexter, Assistant Professor Department of Leadership, Foundations, and Policy, Curry School of Education, UVA. Office Hours: By appointment. Phone/Voice mail: 434-924-7131

Course Description and Objectives

Envisioning and Evaluating Technology Integration will examine how school leaders can effectively envision and evaluate successful technology integration and will help participants facilitate the shared development by all stakeholders of a vision for technology use in schools.

This course will help participants

• Facilitate and maintain a cohesive process for developing, implementing, and monitoring a dynamic technology plan for achieving a technology vision.
• Integrate strategic plans and policies to align efforts and leverage resources for their implementation.

Required Materials

All assigned readings will be on the web.

Assignments

156 points possible: A’s range begins at 90%; B’s range begins at 80%; C’s range begins at 70%; D’s range begins at 60%

Weekly Participation (4 @ 20 pts)

This includes writing up summaries or reactions and participating in online discussions and/or group activities.

Analysis Papers (2 @ 20 pts each)

Each of these papers will follow a similar format where you take ideas presented in the reading(s) for the week and synthesize them to describe and analyze the planning and funding approaches for educational technology in your school or division.

Application Paper (36 points)

In this document you will draw upon your analysis papers to make a tool that you could use to support a school's staff members in planning for and funding educational technology. This will include crafting elements that unite the materials in the analysis points into a framework; drawing upon the analysis and feedback on it to create a presentation to stakeholders; and adding a commentary section to the instructor that sums up your conclusions about encouraging stakeholder participation in planning and funding technology.

Specific requirements and a rubric for each assignment will be provided on assignment and task pages. All assignments are to be written with clarity and edited carefully for spelling and grammatical errors. They should have logical internal structure. Microsoft Word documents are preferred (.doc) or RTF (.rtf) documents. Use APA format for citing and listing references. Suggested writing and citation style resources: - American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author & see electronic reference formats recommended by the APA http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html - Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E. B. (1979). Elements of style. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

School and University Policies

Assistance for Disability in Learning:

UVA’s guide about accommodations that various University of Virginia departments provide to individuals with disabilities can be found at http://www.virginia.edu/vpsa/ada-std.html See also http://trc.virginia.edu/Resources/Academic_Support.htm

Honor Policy:

The honor code applies to all work submitted for this course. The honor code states: On my honor as a student, I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment.” The issue of “aid” sometimes becomes unclear when doing research. According to the University, plagiarism is presenting another person’s work as your own. Examples of plagiarism include copying another person’s paper, restating ideas from a book or article without citing the article as a source, or copying more than seven words from a book or article without quotation marks and a citation of the source of the quotation.

Religious Holidays:

UVA’s policy on religious holidays states “When a religious holiday falls during scheduled class time, faculty are expected not to place a student in jeopardy for observing a religious custom. For example, quizzes affecting the grading of a student's performance should be rescheduled or alternative times be offered.” Please let me know if a religious holiday you observe conflicts with class requirements.