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Workshop Projects and Presentations

General Description of Project

During the week of the workshop, each participant will engage in a project, which will normally consist of the design of a new technology-based course to be taught in the coming academic year. The project is open but should address the four main of the workshop.

What do you want your students to be able to do as a result of taking your course (intellectual, practical, social,and personal objectives)?
How will you foster these learning outcomes?
How will you and your students know when they have attained these learning outcomes?
How will you know whether your teaching helped and encouraged the students to attain these outcomes?

Projects will revolve around the development of a comprehensive blackboard site to enhance an existing course. Such projects might include:

Developing online discussion groups
Developing online assessment activities
Designing on-line assignments
Digitalizing course materials.

This is not meant to be a comprehensive list. Participants are invited and encouraged to explore a variety of possibilities.

Project Presentations

At the end of the week each participant will be given the opportunity to present the completed project to all workshop participants. This will partly be recognition of the work each individual has done over the course of the week, but it will also provide an opportunity to share ideas and insights. Each presentation should ideally include:

(i) A 1-2 minutes PowerPoint introduction giving a general overview of the project.

(ii) A tour of the course Blackboard site. We would ask that participants focus on:

the particular technology-related initiatives of their new course,
specific learning outcomes that are being addressed, and
perceived challenges to the course's implementation.
(iii) Since our goal is to have all participants complete the workshop with a viable technology-mediated course, we would also ask each participant to comment on:

how far they have gone towards that goal?;
what, if anything, is left to do?;
what future steps might be taken to augment the site to make the project even more comprehensive?

Beyond the Workshop

While the main part of this program consists of attending the workshop and developing a technology-mediated course, we recognise that development is only the first stage of the process. The successes and challenges and refinements that come with implementing the course are just as important... perhaps even more important. As such, we are asking that participants arrange a time with the workshop instructors to meet and discuss the progress of their course. We are suggesting that this occur sometime during the quarter in which the course is taught and at the end of the course.

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