Syllabus

... part of George North's and Teacher Explorer Center's Web site at UNO ... Updated: January 17, 2000

Design and Development of MultiMedia Curricula

EDCI 4993-603, Spring 2000
4:30 to 7:15, Wednesdays

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This Week Wednesday, January 19 First Day of Class Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, January 19 Back to Top	Make a free donation of food to hungry people around the world. A Completed Calendar for this class will be available by Sunday, January 23, 4:30 PM. In Class: Complete your Class Web Page (get your picture taken tonight before you leave). Do you have an eMail address? If not, every UNO student can have a UNO eMail address. Be sure you have access to eMail before our next class. Read about class participation, Evaluation and Self-evaluation. Finished ... NOT ... Explore these links. Some first class meeting advice. Gain access. If you don't already have a home computer, or you were thinking that you need to upgrade your home computer, do it. How can you master weaving technology into your curriculum if you can't practice it day in and day out yourself, at home, for yourself? Who will ask me about Fast Access? Be patient. It takes time for new ideas and new tools to gain hold and have lasting and powerful effects. Be patient ... with yourself, your collogues, and your students. Remember, learning only takes place if we make mistakes. Have a Purpose: Computers are not IT. This class is not about computers. It is about educators doing what for hundreds of years we have always done -- integrate technology into pedagogy. Every class will start with questions. Keep in mind that the only stupid question is the one you didn't ask. I will usually schedule more that I can get done in one night's class. Often, in response to a question -- I will suggest that you ask again in a little while. Most students forget to ask again. Make a commitment to yourself NOT to be like most students. I will make every effort to complete (most) changes to our syllabus by 4:40 PM the Sunday before our next class. If you remind me that I was late in doing so, you will be encouraging me to be more diligent in my work. This is important to you. You can get +1 bonus point for every misspelled word you find on my web pages ;>). eMail the URL of the page along with the misspelled work and the correct spelling to George. The topic tonight is Getting to Know You ... and Getting our Feet Wet ... House Keeping If you didn't receive eMail for our class list, then 1) you didn't read your mail since last class, or 2) I don't have your correct eMail address. Please let me know. It is important to your learning in our class to be corresponding with redCap@ed.uno.edu -- and by direct connection to our whole class. What skills already exist in our class: presentations, web publishing, spreadsheets & database, teaching with curriculum-based software, teaching with tech-aids like white boards, projection or TV conected to their classroom computers, intergrating computer labs in their curriculum, solving the problem of multiple students per computer? What else? Please, remember to include your full name in the text of every message sent to me or to our list -- so that we don't have to guess who an eMail is from. This is critical to your Attendance eMail, forgetting to include your name in the text of this message could result in you be marked absent? Every week Bring a floppy disk to class ... one that you use on your own computer at home, school, work ... from the computer you plan to use to do your class assignments. Send me attendance eMail. Assignments Who will be the first to ask me how our class will read the book Online Education -- Learning and Teaching in Cyberspace by Greg Kearsley Keep in mind that when you complete the below assignments everyone in class will benefit from your work. This is one great benefit of information networks. Think about it as textbook readings ... except that the whole class reads a little part and tells the others about it. I expect that by the end of our semester together, you will look back on these assignments as very important to your overall learning experience. Assignment: Due by 4:30 PM, on the Sunday before our next class. Who will be the first to ask me how students in our class become members of our list, redCap. Respond to the following by sending eMail to redCap. After doing some research, what is your opinion of the significance of redCaps? Everyone in class will be responsible for reading chapter(s) from Online Education. List the topics of your reading assignment In a one page document, summarize what you read. Don't repeat the author, tell me and your classmates what you think about what the author said. Important suggestion: Use your word processor to create and edit this assignment. Save it for yourself on your own computer. When it is complete, copy and paste the document into an eMail message to redCap. These assignments can become part of your portfolio if you choose to build on. What if we finish early? What is an *Information Network*?

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