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Week |
Date |
Topic |
Due Dates |
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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. |
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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; |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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3/1-3/9 |
Spring Break |
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8 |
3/11-3/13 |
Multimedia groupware video; teleconferencing; web phone; attributes of empirical data: Validity, generalizability; special topics; group work. |
Quiz |
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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 |
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10 |
3/25-3/27 |
Review: Real-time
collaboration on documents using NetMeeting. IT TBA: video teleconferencing |
Quiz |
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11 |
4/1-4/3 |
Distance learning: Concepts, criteria, current practice. |
Project activities |
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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 |
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13 |
4/15-4/17 |
Workgroups: Shared files and group database. |
Group Reports |
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14 |
4/22-4/24 |
Workgroups. |
Group Reports |
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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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