The Worldwide Web and many educational CD-ROMs are examples of Hypermedia. This course explores the theory and practice of creating materials in this multi-sensory, multiple pathway format. Students will produce an interactive hypermedia project using multimedia authoring software. This project will integrate text, graphics, voice, music, and hyperlinks. In this course, student teachers apply the knowledge they have gained during their coursework to the elementary school classroom.
Students observe, aid, tutor, and gradually assume the responsibility of a professional teacher.
Through daily observing, course planning, teaching, and course evaluation, students come to assume the full responsibility of the full-time teacher. Critiques by supervising and cooperating teachers and by the student teacher, weekly seminars, regular observations, and written student analyses of their teaching promote comfortable and efficient growth toward effective teaching, educational evaluation, and school leadership. During this seminar students gather information and data in order to answer a research question on a basic educational issue. The research question is formulated earlier in their coursework. The seminar culminates in the writing of a research paper and the oral presentation of the findings and recommendations to other students, faculty in the Department of Education, and other appropriate faculty.