WebClassroom:  Week #7

March 23rd-March 29  (March 16-22 is Spring Break)
This week's topics:

Announcements

This Week's Discussion Areas

Deadlines

Announcements

Week 6's assignment prompted you to make a preliminary selection of the topic for your major web curriculum project.  It also prompted you to consider how you might address 7 common instructional elements (motivating the learner, specifying what is to be learned, prompting the learner to recall and apply previous knowledge, providing new information, offering guidance and feedback, testing comprehension, and supplying enrichment or remediation).

For Week 7, I ask you to think further about the content and organization of your project site:

1.  Please read Chapter 57 of Web-Based Instruction (417-423) as a source of possible stragegies for incorporating web materials into instruction.  A discussion forum focusing on this chapter will be set up on March 20th.  Question for discussion:  Which of the types of uses listed seems most relevant to your target audience?  Why?

2.  Begin to identify some of the smaller chunks of information or features that you will be including in your site.  These smaller units of information might be more easily managed if you place each one on an index card.

3.  Sort and group these units of information into categories that may form the major sections of your site.

4.  Examine the different organizational strategies listed in the Site Design section (specifically Site Structure) of the Yale Web Style Manual.  Identify the strategy you feel most comfortable with or feel is most appropriate for your content.

5. Re-examine the Site Covers portion of the Site Design Section.  Create a paper-based rough draft of what your site cover might look like and how you would link to the major sections of your content.

 Yale Web Style Manual
 

  Week 7 Discussion Areas

Because March 16-22 is Dana's Spring Break, I will not make the Chapter 57 discussion forum available until Friday the 20th.  Until then, the class listserve should be used if you need to communicate with the rest of the class.
 

Deadlines

All Week 7 work and discussions should be concluded by 12:01 AM Central Time on March 30th.  Dana College's Spring Break runs from March 16th - March 22th.  Week 8 assignments will be posted on the 30th as well.