Resources for Web Writers and Developers Meetings April 22-23, 2008 at Mission College, Santa Clara, CA

Curriculum Writers Resources:

Writer's Guide.  Minimum Curriculum Development Guidelines: content, format, quality.

Visual aids from April Workshops

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Web Developers Resources:

D/L Web matrix creating tool cellXMLeditor.exe

Installing cellXMLeditor.exe

Web Design and Support Tools List

Using cellXMLeditor.exe to create module navigation matrices

New curriculum publishing procedures

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CETA standards-based lesson plan template

CETA 6x5 Matrix Lesson Planning template

A guide for writing student-centered learning (lesson) objectives

A listing of lesson objective verbs based on Bloom's taxonomy.  For help in writing learning objectives 

Some Assessment Methods from International Technology Education Association

Alternative Templates (for ideas and examples)

CORD Contextual learning lesson plan template.  Shows example of workplace scenarios. 

Alt. lesson plan template which scripts the delivery.  Emphasizes multiple intelligences (learning activities)

Course outline graphic organizer curriculum planning worksheet (Amador HS). Similar to UC course outline.  

Selected Content Standards from CA DOE (current as of July 2002) Get others from CA web.

• Algebra I (worksheet form)
• Algebra II (companion matrix)
• Physics (worksheet form)
• Language Arts
• Investigation & Experimentation (worksheet form)

SCANS (Workplace skills)

California Curriculum Frameworks Curriculum frameworks provide guidance for implementing the content standards adopted by the State Board of Education (SBE).

CETA-Saratoga HS Course Description

Samples of UC approved courses (go to the UC web site for these and more)...some good examples of course and learning objectives (others not so good)

• Palo Alto HS Engineering Tech 
• Cabrillo HS Principles of Engr
• CART Engineering I
• CART Engineering II
• Nevada Union HS CAD Geometry
• Salinas UHSD Applied Physics
• SFUSD Physics & Technology
• Amador HS Environmental Science & Technology

Selected Resources & Links   

CETA Logo PowerPoint Format    

* National Content Standards. 

**International Technology Education Association.  Publishes Standards for Technological Literacy (3.3 MB .pdf from the ITEA web site).  Excellent clearing house, many resources, valuable links.

***National Education Standards.  Links to full text versions of National Standards for mathematics, science, and technology

* Standards-based Lesson Plans.  Use these search tools to find lesson ideas.

**ASEE American Society of Engineering Educators.  Information and resources including K-12 education.  

Also visit ASEE's K-12 engineering education resource page. 

**http://www.prek-12engineering.org Standards-based engineering lesson plans.  A Massachusetts technology education site with some good contextual links

StateStandards.com State educational standards coupled to lesson plans and resources. Examples from 50 states.  Some good ideas for technology lessons but requires some work to find them.  Uses data base of lesson plans at AOL@School 

* Curriculum Development Aids.  In-depth models for objective-based curriculum design and development.

School and Beyond. A Resource Guide for educators, counselors and career staff to support integrated teaching strategies and principles of school-to-career.  Project of the California Federation of Teachers.

**National Semiconductor Global Connections (tutorials on using the internet in the classroom instruction)

***Big Dog's ISD page.  A rich resource with detailed Instructional System Design explanations and examples.  Several planning templates including lesson plans.

Choose a standard format by clicking a color bar.  Formats were created using Microsoft Office 97.

Hint.  To convert an existing PowerPoint presentation to one of the CETA template styles, save the version you open above as a PowerPoint template (.pot file extension). Windows will probably save it to your templates directory.  Open your existing presentation and choose format, apply design from the menu bar.