Schedule of Activities for LBST 499, Working Together Using IT, Spring 2003
by Prof. Cross, Last Modified
Classes meet in Stright 329 on Tuesday and Stright 320 on Thursday

Week

Date

Topic

Due Dates

1

1/14-1/16

Concepts: Introduction to course; Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives in the cognitive domain; jargon; stages of group development (group dynamics); groupware (dispersed and asynchronous); Web-based forms and IT literacy; file management, including backup.

IT: E-mail; Forms (student background survey; IUP network services; Yahoo; Windows Explorer; backup; versions of a file.

 

2

1/21-1/23

Concepts: Web forms for surveys and testing; Group Dynamics; Threaded Discussion; whiteboards; sharing documents over a network; reading online vs. on paper; writing exam responses in Word; submitting Word documents for scoring.

IT: Netmeeting; WebCT; Whiteboards; calendar; (Image Composer for editing and composing graphics;) Microsoft Office; managing files on IUP networks and in IUP public computing areas.

Interns 3:30 P.M. Thursday, Jan. 23;
Quiz

3

1/28-1/30

Concepts: Electronic Meeting Systems (EMS); empirical study of meetings; ethnographic analysis; computer conference; Nunamaker's article; work without F2F; netiquette; anonymity;.

IT: WebCT; bulletin board for a computer conference; chat; Yahoo file transfer; web pages.

 Nunamaker discussion

4

2/4-2/6

Concepts: Pareto Principle; brainstorming; computer-based language translation and message distortion; work logs and journals; cybercitations.

IT: Web forms and scoring an Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EIQ); Craig's List; language translation (Babelfish); blogs; puzzlemaster.com.

Nunamaker quiz

5

2/11-2/13

Concepts: Distance learning (DL); learning objectives; assessment; feedback; IT for DL; expectations for pilot testing of DL and ethnographic studies Web logs; essay questions online with word processing; group projects; Johari Window.

IT: Puzzlemaker.com

Quiz; assign group project.

6

2/18-2/20

Concepts: Mid-Term Exam; multiuser games; two groupware technologies on one collaborative task.

IT: WebCT Designer; Word (Cut and paste to Word; title page; table of contents; headers, footers, and page numbers; backup concepts and skills; using a document skeleton for learning activities); Yahoo multiuser games and side chat.

Setup group IT

7

2/25-2/27

Concepts: Johari Window; Data analysis for evaluating learning.

IT: Spreadsheets for data anlaysis; PowerPoint for organizing and presenting; integrating Office software; Multiuser games.

Mid-term group exam; blogger logs; project proposals.

3/1-3/9

Spring Break

8

3/11-3/13

Multimedia groupware video; teleconferencing; web phone; attributes of empirical data: Validity, generalizability; special topics; group work.

Quiz

9

3/18-3/20

Special topics: Groupthink; assessments vs. feedback; assessments that direct learning; designing feedback to direct change in procedures.

Proposals for project activities

10

3/25-3/27

Review: Real-time collaboration on documents using NetMeeting.

IT TBA: video teleconferencing

Quiz

11

4/1-4/3

Distance learning: Concepts, criteria, current practice.

Project activities

12

4/8-4/10

Data collection and analysis for DL activities: item analysis; spreadsheets; charts; importing tables and charts to PowerPoint.

Information literacy (IL): The concept, the opportunities, and creative thinking for IUP.

Project activities

13

4/15-4/17

 Workgroups: Shared files and group database.

Group Reports

14

4/22-4/24

 Workgroups.

Group Reports

Final Exams 

8:00am   T R     Tuesday, April 29          8:00am - 10:00am
9:45am   T R     Thursday, May 1           10:15am - 12:15pm

 


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