Next sessions:
EDUC 744 929 June 23 - August 1, 2008 3 graduate credits
EDUC 744 929 September 15-November 14, 2008 3 graduate credits
EDUC 744 930 October 6-December 5, 2008 3 graduate credits
Online - No travel to campus
Description: Concepts, research, and instructional technology strategies for integrating web design across the curriculum.
Convenient. Friendly atmosphere. Challenging. Motivating.
That's how our students have
described this online course. Classroom teachers, media specialists, school principals, curriculum consultants, and technology
coordinators from around the world have participated in this class. Review a few of our past participants' comments and projects.
Learn how to use a class website to share your homework assignments, self-testing quizzes/reviews, classroom newsletter, and no longer wonder if notes to parents are discarded along the sidewalk or forgotten on the bus.
Learn what makes an effective district or classroom website and what features are critical to motivate learning.
Explore how a website can be a good public relations tool or an exciting and effective way to deliver personalized instruction to students of all ability levels.
This course provides individualized instruction and allows participants to create pages that focus on a segment of the classroom population, such as remedial work, or projects for talented and gifted learning beyond the regular curriculum. Participants from the same school district may work on activities as a team.
Activities and resources include:
- Creating templates for a variety of page formats
- Converting and scaling artwork and photographs for web publication
- Organizing web page layouts with tables
- Developing effective navigation tools
- Examining copyright concerns for authors of web sites
No Web design software, such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver, is required for
successful completion of the final project. However, this course makes an excellent preparation for any web page program. Knowledge of HTML is essential when trying to edit pages that are created by software but don't fit your desired appearance or structure.
Conducted completely online with no face-to-face sessions, you may participate from your home or school
computer 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Learning Outcomes
- Analyze current research on teaching and learning when planning learning experiences using web-based resources.
- Evaluate web-based lessons that integrate web-based resources for quality and effectiveness.
- Apply visual learning theory to a pre-existing lesson and/or unit that integrates a web-based component.
- Analyze an instructional curriculum problem and integrate web pages in a variety of subject areas including science, math, social studies, literacy, and the arts.
- Research and evaluate online repositories of digital images to maximize student learning, affirm diversity, and address diverse learner needs when creating web-based activities.
- Create various file formats, use multiple design elements, and apply basic principles of web page design to create effective web-based curriculum.
- Research legal and ethical issues including privacy, copyright, and intellectual freedom as related to the use of web-based resources.
- Demonstrate an awareness of school district policies regarding publishing of teacher web pages, student work and photographs.
- Analyze instructional strategies and best practices to promote student creativity while integrating web design when teaching various concepts and skills.
- Analyze and evaluate an assessment tool for teacher or student-produced web projects.
- Analyze accessibility of web-based resources when planning for diverse learner needs.
- Design and publish quality web pages using design basics to enhance understanding in a subject area such as: science, math, social studies, language arts, the arts, family and consumer science education, marketing and business education and technology education.
Course objectives are aligned with the following:
Wisconsin Standards for Teacher Development and Licensure:
3, 4, 7, 10
International Society for Technology in Education, National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers I, II, III, IV, VI
Content Outline
Reasons for having a classroom web page
Jenkin’s emerging literacies for today’s learners
Creativity in the classroom
Instructional Applications of Web Design
Learning theories that lend themselves to integrating web design
Social constructivist, multiple intelligences, situated learning
Strategies for helping students publish on the web across reading, writing and the content areas
Using the web to create teaching moments
Enhancing home-school communication
Web Design Basics for the Classroom Teacher
Purpose of a website
Planning your site
Site development processes
Naming conventions
Design principles
Effective page layouts
Principles of effective navigation
Creating Web Page Templates
Image capture: creating and collecting graphics
Effective graphics
Free graphics
Converting graphics
Digital Ethics and Copyright Issues
Fair use in the classroom
Creative commons
Public domain
Citation of digital resources
School district policies
Accessibility
Web design accessibility issues
Accessibility validation systems
Accessibility to enhance usability for all
Readings
Reading materials will be embedded within the text of each lesson and available
on the WWW.
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Instructor
Jim Erbe
Jim's introduction and background information
Prerequisite
Hardware and Software Requirements
What are the minimum technology requirements?
Hardware and Software Requirements
Complete the system checkup on this website, https://uwstout.courses.wisconsin.edu/
by clicking on the link that says: Check your system.
Review the list of compatible/recommended browsers and software programs for Learn@UWStout at the Online Help Desk.
If you have any questions about these preferences, please call one of the numbers listed below and indicate that you are a UW-Stout student needing help with Learn@UW-Stout . Help is available 7 days a week.
• 1-888-435-7589 select option 3
, or
• 1-608-264-4357 select option 3
Modem - 56 kbps ( A high speed connection to the Internet is preferred. )
Operating System - Windows XP, Macintosh OSX or System 9 (Older operating systems will work for most of the course content.)
Memory - 128MB of RAM (256 or greater preferred) Older computers will be able to access most of the course content.
All projects will be exchanged by posting to online storage or the course DropBox, and your peers and instructor will provide suggestions and comments by posting to the discussion board.
Take a few minutes to review the Frequently Asked Questions, (FAQs).
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Registration
Enrollment is limited to twenty participants; register online .
Tuition is payable by university billing, MasterCard, or Visa.
Refund policy
Check out the list of additional online classes.
For additional information about the class, e-mail your comments
or questions to:
Contact: Joan M. Vandervelde
Online Professional Development
School of Education
University of Wisconsin - Stout
Menomonie, WI 54751
phone: (715)-232-2693
fax: (715) 232-3385
Orientation Activities
After you are enrolled, review the orientation activities and the Student Expectations and Responsibilities and Academic Expectations and Dishonesty Policy.
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