EdPsy 387: Computer Uses in Education (Summer 2002) Syllabus

EdPsy 387:
Computer Uses in Education

Syllabus:

Assignments | Grading | Objectives | Readings

Topic:

The design of highly interactive web learning environments

Day

Activity

Description

June 24

Web Design and its Applications

Read Michelle Hinn's Alternative Web Design Guide

Skim through the Yale Web Style Guide.

Find an exemplary educational web site (a web site with the goal of helping somebody learn something) and an exemplary personal web site (a web site created by a person to describe him/herself).

Post in WebBoard the names, URLs, short descriptions, and why you think they are exemplary (support your argument based on the readings or other sources).

Look at your ePortfolio, and improve it, based on the examplary sites you and your fellow students found and based on the readings. Post in WebBoard the changes you made and why you made them.

June 25

Critical web evaluation

Look through these tutorials on web evaluation. Use the Web Evaluation Workbench to assist you in evaluating one of these web sites.

Post in WebBoard your evaluation of the web site you selected, and also your reaction to the Web Evaluation Workbench. Did it help you evaluate the web site? Would it help you to teach others to critically evaluate web sites? What could be done to make it a better tool? What other tutorials or other tools can help you teach others to become critical evaluators of the web?

June 26

Social & Policy Issues

Skim through the "White Papers" written by CTER1 students. You will work collaboratively with a group to revise one of the papers. See the assignment due July 2nd described in Week 4 about revising the White Paper assigned to your group.

June 29

Major project web site

Create a web page or set of pages describing your major project, and post the URL in WebBoard.

Examine at least two other students' major project web sites and respond in WebBoard giving them constructive feedback.

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