Online course - No travel to campus required

Next sessions:
EDUC 744 929S January 11 – March 12, 2010
EDUC 744 930S March 15 – May 14, 2010
3 graduate credits

Description: Concepts, research, and instructional technology strategies for integrating web design across the curriculum.

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.

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

1. Analyze current research on teaching and learning when planning learning experiences using web-based resources.
2. Evaluate web-based lessons that integrate web-based resources for quality and effectiveness.
3. Apply visual learning theory to a pre-existing lesson and/or unit that integrates a web-based component.
4. Analyze an instructional curriculum problem and integrate web pages in a variety of subject areas including science, math, social studies, literacy, and the arts.
5. Research and evaluate online repositories of digital images to maximize student learning, affirm diversity, and address diverse learner needs when creating web-based activities.
6. Create various file formats, use multiple design elements, and apply basic principles of web page design to create effective web-based curriculum.
7. Research legal and ethical issues including privacy, copyright, and intellectual freedom as related to the use of web-based resources.
8. Demonstrate an awareness of school district policies regarding publishing of teacher web pages, student work and photographs.
9. Analyze instructional strategies and best practices to promote student creativity while integrating web design when teaching various concepts and skills.
10. Analyze and evaluate an assessment tool for teacher or student-produced web projects.
11. Analyze accessibility of web-based resources when planning for diverse learner needs.
12. 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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School of Education
Online Professional Development
University of Wisconsin - Stout
Menomonie, WI 54751
phone: 715-232-2253