WED 401 Units and Lessons
Date Topic Student Preparation Student Products and Tests
1/17/06 Introduction to Course Show up

None
1/24/06

Notes

 Unit 1. INTRODUCTION

Lesson 1.   WHAT IS ONLINE LEARNING?

Lesson 2.    WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF ONLINE LEARNING?

Lesson 3.    WHAT ARE THE ISSUES ON ONLINE LEARNING?

Lesson 4.    WHAT'S IN THIS BOOK FOR ME?

  

 

Read and Study Unit 1, Lesson 1-4

Webteacher Creating an html webpage

Access WebCT as Designer

  

 

In class assignment

  • Create a preliminary skeleton of course
  • Email to instructor
1/31/06

Notes

 Unit 2. DEVELOPMENT -- GETTING STARTED

Lesson 5.    WHAT IS THE ONLINE ENVIRONMENT?

 

  

Read and Study Lesson 5

WebCT Exemplary Courses

Courses demonstrating use of multimedia: Satellite Search
Deadwood Illustrated
Art Detective

 

  

Quiz 1 -- worth 10  points

In class assignment

 
2/7/06

 

Lesson 6.    WHAT ARE THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE?
 

Convert face-to-face to online chart

Read and Study Lesson 6


Speaker: Heidi Jung, Instructional Designer, SIUC

 

Quiz 2

 
2/14/06

Notes

Lesson 7.    WHAT ARE ONLINE DELIVERY PLATFORMS?

Lesson 8.    WILL MY TEACHING STYLE TRANSLATE TO THE ONLINE CLASSROOM?
Read and Study Lesson 7
Read and Study Lesson 8

Evaluation of a well designed course Web site

Evaluation of poorly designed course Web site

Prepare Storyboards & submit WebCT email
 
Participation

Complete Storyboard/Outline

Online Course Outline
2/21/06

Notes

Lesson 9.    TRANSLATING CONTENT TO ONLINE

Curriculum Development & Instructional Design

  

Read and Study Lesson 9

 

 Quiz 3

Evaluation of course Web sites
Assignment Instructions

 
2/28/06

Notes

         WebCT Logon -- shell
Upload logo, icons, and one Word document
  		 

Evaluation of well designed course Web site DUE.
 
3/7/06         WebCT
        Video, audio & PPoint
        in WebCT


Button generators
http://www.tomaweb.com/buttons.asp
http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/

Drop-down Menu generator
http://javascript.internet.com/generators/drop-down-menu.html

Creating screen shots

 

  

Quiz 4 (Matching, open-book)

Evaluation of poorly designed course Web site DUE
 
3/11-3/19/06  

SPRING BREAK

 
3/21/06

Notes

Lesson 10.   THE MECHANICS OF PUTTING YOUR MATERIALS ONLINE

 Read and Study Lesson 10

Participate in Chat Room

Page design

 

  
3/28/06

Notes

         Lesson 11. Conducting
        the Class

        What is a Course
        Management System
        (CMS)?

 

 Read and Study Web site: http://thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A5070.cfm
 		 Quiz 5 (Worth 20 points)
4/4/06

WebCT

  

Prepare for Midterm

Uploading course material to WebCT

 

  

Using Learning Objects
4/11/06

 

NO CLASS

 

   Online Midterm
4/18/06Notes: Conducting the Online Class Unit 3. IMPLEMENTATION/EVALUATION

Lesson 11.   CONDUCTING THE CLASS

 

 Read and Study Lesson 11

Creating Quizzes in WebCT

 Suggested module components
4/25/06

Notes
 

Lesson 12.   EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF YOUR COURSE

 

 Read and Study Lesson 12

 

 Quiz 6

Online Course Checksheet


Online Course Evaluation
 
5/2/06 Presentations  

Present course to class

Review for Final Exam

 

 Quiz 7

WebCT course
5/8-5/12/06  

Wrap-up & FINAL

 

 WebCT Final Exam FINAL EXAM