Semester:

Fall 2008

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Course Description:

This BbCE course will familiarize the student with the broad subject of education for gifted and talented (GT) students.  The course, designed to be completed on an individual study basis, is appropriate for parents, home schoolers, and classroom teachers.  It is an activity-based course and includes fourteen lessons that correspond to the textbook chapters.  Students will complete an assigned activity in each lesson and correlate the activity to the Idaho Standards for Gifted and Talented Education so that students' performance and products in this course serve as evidence of their attainment of the standards.  Occasionally students will be asked to make contributions to a bulletin board discussion.  This is the entry course for the sequence of courses offered by LCSC that lead to GT endorsement.

Minimum Computer Requirements:

Win 2000/XP or Mac OSX Pentium/G3 1Ghz w/ 1.5 GB RAM
High Speed Internet Access Recommended*
Firefox 1.5.0.11 or Internet Explorer 6x
Java runtime environment 1.5.11 (J2SE) 5.0 update 11 for Windows and (J2SE) 5.0 Release 4 for OSX
UPDATES-Make sure you download security patches for your operating system. If you're a Microsoft Windows user, get your monthly updates at www.microsoft.com/security. If you use Mac, check out updates at www.mac.com/support.

*Courses can be accessed via 56K modem connections although due to the long page load times this type of connection is not recommended and any connectivity problems due to this type of connection are not supported by Lewis-Clark State College.

On Campus Requirements:

Please contact the instructor.

Other Information:

On-line discussions may be required during this course. The LCMail account and BbCE course mail are the only accounts that will be used to contact students regarding online courses. An LCMail account is automatically assigned to students when they enroll. Access to this email account is found at http://lcmail.lcsc.edu. BbCE course mail is enabled when a student is enrolled in a BbCE course. Access to BbCE course mail is through each BbCE course. BbCE course mail is an internal mail system only and cannot be accessed outside of a BbCE course. Please check with your instructor to determine the preferred method of contact.