Periodically I will announce bonus point opportunities. I will tryto post them here when appropriate. If a deadline is midnight, I assumeyou are emailing it to me and I will use the time/date stamp on your emailas the "postmark".
 
 

#1 For bonus point(s) to be negotiated:  In our first class we did a Cooperative activity to get to know each other.It was the one where you wrote your name and 4 specific facts about yourselfon an index card. Then we did a "Swap and Stop" with those cards followedby a "Loop". It was a fun way to get to know each other but it had nothingto do with technology. Design a Cooperative activity that could be usedearly in CECS 4100 with the goal of helping students to get to know each other AND that integrates technology. This Bonus Point Opportunity expires at midnight, May 1, 2001. You may submit up to 2 activities.

#2 For one or two bonus points:  Correctly identify at least half of the people (yourself and the instructor included) on the page of photos without names for your class. You may use the Team Photos to assist you. There are no names on the team photos, but if you were in class that day, you can use the pictures and your notes.If you correctly identify 100% of the people in the photos, you get twobonus points.Click here to go to the pagewith the links you need. This Bonus Point Opportunity expires at midnight, February 21, 2001. You only get one attempt at this one.

#3 For three bonus points: Since we won't be spending class time learning HyperStudio, but chances are great it will be in the school that you teach in, I hope you'll take the opportunity to "mess around" in HyperStudio. Go to the lab in Matthews Hall 312 and see what you can learn about HyperStudio. It's already loaded on most of the machines in that lab. Create a project with at least 3 pages and 2 buttons that link one page to another. Also put some graphics on each of the pages that you created using the drawing tools. Save the project to a floppy disk and either hand in the diskette or send the file as an attachment to an email. If you do this bonus point, it would be okay to count HyperStudio as one of the software packages you review for Assignment #2. This Bonus Point Opportunity expires at midnight, May 1, 2001.

#4 For one bonus point: Keep ourclass web page accurate and keep me honest. Be the first to point out anerror (typographical error, bad link, erroneous information, etc.) in our class web pages. Email me if possible, or if you point it out in person,make sure I write it down. This Bonus Point Opportunity expires at midnight, May 1, 2001. (NOTE:  You can accumulate as many of these as possible...I need all the help I can get.)

#5 For one to three bonus points: This bonus point will help you learn more about the Learning Theories in Chapter 3 of our text book. On page 50 it states "Two issues of Educational Technology (May 1991 and September 1991) do a good job of explaining these philosophical differences and the instructional approaches that sprang from them. On page 59, it states, "A special issue of Educational Technology (October 1993) gives additional examples." All of these issues are available in Willis Library. Make a copy of any one of articles in these issues related to Learning Theory. Hand in the copy for 1 point. Write a summary (very brief) of what you learned from reading the article and you get an additional 2 bonus points. You may do as many of the articles as you like. This Bonus Point Opportunity expires at midnight, May 1, 2001.

#6 For three to five bonus points: Turn your information from Assignment 3 into a web page. Link that web page to your Assignment 4 web page. Now you and your classmates will have access to all that valuable and rich information you researched in Assignment 3. And you'll have access to every one else's research! A simple way to do this is to take your letter that you wrote to the teacher, save it as .html, and put links to all 5 (or more) of your Internet resources that you found. Just doing that is an automatic 3 points (assuming it's done correctly). Adding more to the web page will add more points. If you want to do the research on another topic besides the one you did for Assignment 3 and make a web page with at least 5 Internet resources on this new topic, that could merit another 3-5 bonus points. The maximum number of additional web pages you can make (for bonus points) is 5 (for 15 to 25 bonus point maximum). This Bonus Point Opportunity expires at midnight, May 1, 2001.

#7 For two bonus points: The abacus is considered one of the first "computers" created by humans. Though it has no mechanical parts, it is a device used by humans to make computing faster. Learn how to use an abacus to count, to add, and to subtract. Make a 5 minute appointment with Miss Overall to demonstrate how to solve these problems on an abacus: 3+4, 9+2, 21+5, 36+8, 159+63, 12-6, 89-4, and 477-68. Miss Overall has an abacus in her office that you can use. This Bonus Point Opportunity expires at midnight, May 1, 2001.