Designing Internet Resources for Teaching

TIE 542, Fall 2009

Mondays, Chicago; 4:30 - 8:15 pm

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Instructor

Craig A. Cunningham. Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Technology in Education Program
office: 312-261-3605; cell: 773-505-1133
craig.cunningham@nl.edu
Web site: http://craigcunningham.com
Office Hours: By appointment only

Course Materials

REQUIRED:

Curriculum Webs: Weaving the Web into Teaching and Learning, by Craig A. Cunningham and Marty Billingsley, 2nd edition (Allyn & Bacon, 2006).

 

 

Adobe's Dreamweaver software. I recommend getting the latest version, CS4; however, if you have an older version (2004 MX or later), you can use that, although it does lack some of the cool features of CS4. You can purchase Dreamweaver with an education discount direct from Adobe, at https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-EDU&event=displayEduConditions. NOTE: there is also a trial version available, that lasts for 30 days. If you don't feel the need to own Dreamweaver, you can use the trial. However, keep in mind that the trial only gives you 30 days of use. If you can, install an earlier version of the trial first, and then the latest version later. The trial is available here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=dreamweaver&loc=en&promoid=EBYEW

A web server account. You can use your own web space or an account assigned to you by the instructor.

Accessing your TIE web server account

NLU Acceptable Use Policy

"Hands-On Lessons" from Curriculum Webs: Weaving the Web into Teaching and Learning 2/e by Cunningham and Billingsley. (Some other potentially useful resources are available here: http://curriculumwebs.com/.)

OPTIONAL:

I recommend that you join the Illinois Computing Educators. As part of your membership, you get access to Atomic Learning, which has tutorials on Dreamweaver and other software. You can join ICE here: http://www.iceberg.org/page.php?pid=9.

Program Mission Statement

The mission of the Technology in Education program is to prepare educators to use technology in their schools and to provide instructional leadership and technical support to other educators who wish to integrate technology in teaching and learning.

Accessibility

Please Note: National-Louis University is committed to ensuring that all of its facilities and programs are accessible to all persons.  If you believe you may qualify for course adaptations or accommodations in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, it is your responsibility to immediately, but no later than the second class session to contact the Office of Diversity, Access and Equity (DAE Office) or the instructor.  You may contact the Director of Diversity and Equal Employment at (847) 947-5491 or via e-mail at Erin.Haulotte@nl.edu.  If you have coordinated services with the DAE Office, please provide your letter of accommodation to the instructor.

Academic Honesty

With respect to the academic honesty of students, it is expected that all material submitted as part of any class exercise, in or out of class, is the actual work of the student whose name appears on the material or is properly documented otherwise. The concept of academic honesty includes plagiarism as well as receiving and/or giving improper assistance and other forms of cheating on coursework. Students found to have engaged in academic dishonesty are subject to disciplinary action and may be dismissed from the University.

Faculty has the right to analyze and evaluate students’ course work.  Students may be asked to submit their papers electronically to a third party plagiarism detection service.  Students who are asked to submit their papers and refuse must provide proof for every cited work comprising the cover page and first cited page for each source listed in the bibliography.  When evidence of academic dishonesty is discovered, an established procedure of resolution will be activated to bring the matter to closure.  See Policy on Academic Honesty in the University Catalog and Student Guidebook (http://www.nl.edu/StudentServices/studentaffairs/StudentHandbook/).

For resources on how to cite properly and avoid plagiarism, go to NLU’s Center for Academic Development (http://www.nl.edu/centers/cad/) and the NLU Library (http://www.nl.edu/library/).

Catalog Description

This course reviews planning, designing, managing and evaluating Internet resources used in educational settings, including collaborative and social networking sites.  Learners create web sites using web development tools, and participate in online collaborative curricular projects and team activities to build samples of web-based instruction.

Course Objectives

This course specifically addresses the following standards:

• Understand and utilize Internet services, which allow for conferencing and collaboration.  (TS-5A, TF-V.D.3)
• Promote the use of online resources to support student research and instruction.  (TS-5B)
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of the infrastructure required for connectivity and the types of telecommunication connections.  (TS-5C, TF-V.C.4)
• Identify and select quality web page design criteria when publishing on the World Wide Web.  (TS-4E, TF-III.A.7)
• Publish pages on the World Wide Web, which include text, graphics, movies, and/or sound.  (TS-1K, TF-V.C.5, TF-V.D.4)
• Plan and implement individual and group instructional activities that integrate Internet activities into the school curriculum.  (TS-3G, TF-III.A.6)
• Plan and implement a staff development experience that uses online resources.  (TF-VI.D.1)
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to use Internet software and hardware to distribute information and resources across the Internet.  (TS-5E)
• Identify and explain critical issues (e.g., social, ethical, and legal) when using Internet in the classroom and examine the effects that expanded and improved technology infrastructure may have on education.  (TS-1O)
• Describe local, State, and federal guidelines for technology integration, as well as grants and funding opportunities available for telecommunication projects in the schools.  (TS-8C, TF-VIII.D.3)
• Describe the local school district’s Internet policies and suggest ways of providing equitable access for all students and teachers.  (TS-3F, TF-VI.E.1)
• 12.  Use readings from their professional library to reflect on their own professional growth in using technology as well as in their work to support others. (This is a culmination of an ongoing portfolio requirement across courses.) (TF-VII.C)

( ISBE: Technology Specialist (TS)    ISTE: Technology Facilitator Standards (TF))

Major Topics

1. Technology integrated lessons across curriculum content areas

• Using technology to assist in meeting existing curricular objectives
• Using technology to extend the learning environment, e.g.,
• Simulations of situations not usually examined in the classroom
• Problem solving with a data base and spreadsheets
• Accessing information beyond the walls of the school via the Internet

  2. Use of technology-based experiences to provide collaborative learning environments
  

• Matching lesson elements to the Illinois Learning Standards and the 
NETS Standards

  3. Instructional approaches for using technology in the classroom
  

• Engaged Learning
• Problem-based Learning
• Anchored Instruction
• Social Constructivism
• Collaborative groups
• Full group instruction
• Peer tutors
• Meeting the Needs of All Learners (eg, including those with differences in cultural, languages and learning styles)
• Currently identified Best Practice

  4. Models for designing integrated online learning experiences
  

• Understanding by Design
• Apple Unit of Practice
• ASSURE Model

  5. Plan for Technology Integration
  

• Plan a unit with specific objectives
• Provide for individual differences
• Consider technology-related classroom management strategies
• Address state learning standards and state and national technology standards
• Describe lessons (performance tasks) for the unit

  6. Implement fully developed lesson
  

• Use of one of the models for design of lesson
• Integrate appropriate technology experience in the lesson
• Develop and use tool for assessment of student learning
• Include personal reflection on the implementation experience

  7. Evaluate lesson
  

  8. Impact of introducing new technologies into school context (the process of change)
  

• on curricular goals and objectives
• on the role of the teacher and teachers’ concerns
• on the possibility of new instructional strategies
• on changes in grouping patterns and scheduling
• on changes in methods of assessing student learning

  9. Tools for publishing on the World Wide Web including:
  

• Web authoring
• HTML scripting
• File transfer
• Image manipulation and multimedia software
• Design and layout criteria for use with web pages

  10. Online Educational Activities
  

• Activities relating to online activities and instructional design
• Review of online resources
• Review of copyright issues
• Review special needs issues
• Communicating with individuals or groups
• Online messenger-type programs
• Video conferencing

  11. Exploring and creating multi-user environments
  

• Tapped In resources
• Comparisons of online professional conferences
• Multi-featured video conferencing tools

  12. Web site project to focus on
  

• Online Professional Development
• Must be piloted by teachers in advance
• Must address adult learners
• Must address continuous learning
• Must assist in teacher professional development
• Other school (but not class) topic

Course Requirements

Note: all of the following will be contained within an online portfolio to be constructed during the course by the candidate on a web server account.

• Eight substantive and substantial blog entries, to be completed on a weekly basis, of at least 400 words each, describing exemplary resources for internet-based learning (and including links, screenshots, and resources for further information when appropriate). Must include each of the following five topics in whichever order you wish, plus three additional blog entries of your choice:
  • reflection on the value of Internet resources for education;
  • criteria for the evaluation of web-based materials;
  • description of one or more resource depositories or lists with materials relevant to the candidate's interests;
  • description (including screen-shots) and evaluation of one or more intriguing educational Web 2.0 (or 3.D) applications;
  • description and evaluation of one or more Inquiry-based lessons (WebQuest or other);

Note: completion of these blog entries assumes that you have completed the background work necessary to write them thoroughly. 10 points

• At least fourteen substantive comments on classmates' blog entries, of at least 100 words each. Please complete two per week, starting in the second week. 10 points
  
  
• The IQ Rubric and WebQuest Task, completed as part of the IQ Webquest, at http://curriculumwebs.com/iqwebquest/. Your definition of inquiry and rubric for evaluating the inquiry quotient of a webquest should reflect considerable thinking on your part about what inquiry consists of. The rubric should address the criteria of inquiry, not generic webquest evaluation critiera. Note: you do not have to complete step 6 of the process in the WebQuest, although you can if you wish to. 10 points
  
  
• Dreamweaver-created "sampler" sub-site (I suggest you create a personal web site or professional web site, or one that pertains to a topic of personal or professional interest), containing at least one example of each of the following: Jump menu, bulletted list, ordered list, table (with headers), link to target (named anchor), image, embedded video, image map, framed page, behavior, link that opens in new window without menus or toolbars, RSS feed, rollover pop-up message, audio that plays when page loads, template applied to multiple pages, at least 5 marked examples of CSS. In addition, please create a page with a list of these required items, and links to those required items. See the beginnings of a sampler site here. 10 points
  
  
• An annotated "hotlist" of at least 40 web-based resources (including at least five that can be described as "Web 2.0) related to the candidate's teaching and/or professional development interests. (Annotations should describe how the resources might be used in your teaching. If you wish, you can use del.icio.us or another social bookmarking sight to create this hotlist; be sure a link is on your online portfolio.) 10 points
  
  
• Evaluation of Web 2.0 tool. Write a detailed evaluation of a particular Web 2.0 tool in terms of its affordances for education. Include the following sections: What makes this Web 2.0? What is the primary purpose of the site? What are the other things the site can be used for? What classes and grade levels in K-12 schools might this be appropriate for? What are the professional development possibilities? Outline a sample lesson utilizing this resource. 10 points.
  
  
• A teaching guide for the lesson or unit you'll create to satisfy the following requirement. (Use this template.) The draft version of this counts as the "proposal" described in the benchmark assignment descriptiion. 10 points
  
  
• An online, inquiry based, learning experience for their students. (This could be a multi-page Webquest.) The online lesson or unit will include differentiation for a diverse student body. The project will be related to the curricular area and educational interests of the candidate. For further details, see benchmark assignment description and rubric. Please include all required elements. Note that a storyboard for the project must be submitted prior to the final due date of the project. (If you are a TIE student, this final project must be submitted via LiveText for review to the instructor by November 16 at midnight.) 30 points

Tentative Schedule of Assignments and Topics

Notes: All assignments must be turned in by midnight on the Sunday following the date on which it is listed, unless prior arrangements are made with the instructor. Assignments are considered "turned in" when a link has been posted to the candidate's website and an email has been sent to the members of the class (including the instructor) providing a general description and URL.

You may continue to work on the assignments after they are turned in, provided that all final work is completed by midnight on November 23.

September 14 : Introduction to the course

Due by midnight, Sunday September 20:

First blog entry. Topic suggestion: your initial sense of the value of Internet resources for education.

September 21: Inquiry as pedagogy; Building a web site with Dreamweaver. Read Curriculum Webs chapters 1 and 2.

Due by midnight on Sunday, September 27:

IQ Rubric and WebQuest task, completed as part of the IQ Webquest, at http://curriculumwebs.com/iqwebquest/. Note: you do not have to complete step 6 of the process in the IQ WebQuest. Only do steps 1-5.

Second blog entry. Topic suggestion: Description and evaluation of one or more Inquiry-based lessons (WebQuest or other)

Two comments on classmates' blog entries from the first week

September 28 : NO CLASS (Instructor at Conference) Identifying useful resources and including them in a web site, Read Curriculum Webs chapters 3 and 4.

Due by midnight on Sunday, October 4:

Detailed evaluation of Web 2.0 tool.

Third blog entry. Topic suggestion: Description of one or more resource depositories or lists with materials relevant to your interests.

Two comments on classmates' blog entries from the second week.

October 5 : Web 2.0 and 3.D resources; Interactivity. Read Curriculum Webs chapters 5 and 6.

Due by midnight on Sunday, July 26:

"Hotlist" due.

Fourth blog entry. Topic suggestion: Description and evaluation of one or more educational Web 2.0 or Web 3.D applications.

Two comments on classmates' blog entries from the third week.

October 12: What's "good" and what's "bad"?; Assessment and evaluation. Read Curriculum Webs chapters 7 and 8.

Due by midnight on Sunday, October 18 :

Dreamweaver-created "sampler" sub-site due.

Fifth blog entry. Topic suggestion: Criteria for the selection of web-based materials.

Two comments on classmates' blog entries from the fourth week.

October 19: Putting it all together. Read Curriculum Webs chapters 9 and 10.

Due by midnight on Sunday, October 25:

Draft of Teaching Guide for benchmark assignment due.

Email the name of your second life avatar to the instructor and members of the class.

Sixth blog entry.

Two comments on classmates' blog entries from the fifth week.

October 26: Class will meet in Second Life at 4:30. Read Curriculum Webs chapters 11 and 12.

Due by midnight on Sunday, November 1:

Seventh blog entry: Topic suggestion: your experience in Second Life and what educational value you expect virtual environments to have in the future.

Two comments on classmates' blog entries from the sixth week.

November 2: Discussion of Final Project Requirements.

6 pm: Vito DePinto presentation, room #5006.

Due by midnight on Sunday, November 8:

Storyboard for final project due.

Eighth blog entry. Topic suggestion: Reflection on the process of creating the final product (benchmark assignment).

Two comments on classmates' blog entries from the seventh week.

November 9: NO CLASS. Individual help sessions scheduled by appointment.

November 16: NO CLASS. Midnight. All work due.

Final benchmark assignment uploaded to web server account; completed LiveText page submitted to "cacunnin" for review.

NOTE: If you wish to request an "in-progress" (I) grade for any NLU graduate course, you must complete 75% of the required work before the end of the term (which is midnight on November 16 for us) AND you must request an "in-progress" grade in writing (using your NLU student email account) before that same deadline. 

Resources

http://curriculumwebs.com. Companion web site to Cunningham and Billingsley Curriculum Webs. Includes Hands-On Lessons on Dreamweaver to accompany chapters.

http://www.lynda.com/info/books/dreamweavermx2004/ Companion web site of Dreamweaver MX 2004 Hands on Training.

http://www.assortedstuff.com/webmaster/started/ : This site contains a bunch of reference material for people just getting starting with creating school web sites, including some evaluation criteria (rubrics), clip art and other technical goodies, and some stuff about HTML and moving in to more advanced web design.

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/learningobjects.html. What are "Learning Objects" and how are they used in internet-based education?

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/. Good source of javascripts.

http://www.hypergurl.com. Another cool source of javascripts. http://curriculumwebs.com. Companion web site to the book. Lots of links and resources.

2Learn.ca Professional Growth Topic Resources (2002). Planning for professional growth @2Learn.ca. (A portion of a larger professional development strand.)   http://www.2learn.ca/Profgrowth/pgtopicindex.html  

Beebe, R., Trenta, et al. (2002). Build it and they will not necessarily come: The effectiveness of a professional development web site for entry-year principals. T.H.E. Journal, 29(11).

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