Information about the Instructor, Paulette Robinson
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The list of topics for the course syllabus will be
determined by the class the first day of class.  The topics and
assignments will appear below on a table listing date, topics,
reading assignments.  At this point in time, week 1 and
week 12 have been developed.  The first class meeting schedule
is listed below.

Preliminary Assessments:

          Technology Assessment
          Student Telephone Survey:  Course Expectations and Basic Information
          Kolb Learning Style Inventory
 

 9:00-  9:15    Introduction and Icebreaker

 9:15-10:00    Introduction of the course

                       Learners receive student folder of information and training
                       materials. Overview of the day's agenda, assignments, grading,
                       netiquette, library access, and student manual.

10:00-10:15    Introduction of creating syllabus activity.

10:15-10:45    Students are formed into groups of 4 or 5 and asked to develop
                       a list of topics they feel would be important to cover in the
                       course.  Groups are asked to include reasons why the topics
                       are important.

10:45-11:00    Students and instructor negotiate the topics to be included in
                       the course syllabus.
 
11:00-12:00    Overview of WebCT and how to use it.
                        Step-by step exercises will be in the Student Manual.

12:00- 1:00     Lunch (Pizza and soft drinks).

 1:00-  3:45     Basic Web page Training
                        (Handouts and Exercises in each Learner's Packet)
 
                       1)  Basic HTML
                       2)  Using Page Composer in Netscape Communicator
                       3)  Design and Copyright Issues
                       4)  Additional HTML Training Resources (printed and on the Web)

 3:45- 4:00     Wrap-up and reminder of the second week's assignments.
 

Saturday 9am  to 4 pm

 Discussion & Debrief

 --University evaluations.

---Instructional design: What elements were the most important in the design?
   What worked and did not work in the Online Classroom design?

--Strengths and weaknesses of WCC.  How did they apply to the Online
   Classroom?

--Does community matter in learning online?  Did we succeed in forming a
   community of learners?  What could we have done to improve the formation
   of a community?

Lunch

Project presentations.  Students will be asked to fill out an evaluation form on
each member of the class.  Individual presentations will be limited to 10 minutes
with 5 minutes of questions.

Final Wrap-up

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