University of Dallas 2003

Amanda Dysart

• Braniff Building• Home of the

Education Department

• Foundation of the University

DANTE Barbara Khirallah,

Director Dallas Area

Network for Teaching and Education

Offering Vygotsky-style assistance to teachers

Technology in My Life

Learned Skills: Skills that Need Work:

Importing documents to Front Page

Attaching hyperlinks to Front Page documents

Adding pictures to PowerPoint slides

Adding WordArt to PowerPoint slides

Creating charts in Excel Creating formulas in Excel

Selectively searching the internet for information

Publishing my own information to the internet (in Front Page)

Goals/Dreams

• Use WebQuests once a unit• Use interactive websites, whether

literature- or writing-oriented, at least once a week in order to supplement lecture-style teaching

• Have students create at least one technology-based project a quarter