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= TIE 542 Learning Experiences on the Internet =

Happy Halloween!
Reminder that this week we are not meeting face to face but you all are working on your final benchmark projects. We reviewed your topics and ideas last class. Send me your current thoughts and outline with any questions you might have. I can give you some feedback and suggestions.

Have a great Halloween! Randy

Homework due Monday, October 24th
It's time to start working on our final projects. We've been collecting data, discussing ideas, reviewing WebQuests as a model, and now it's time to start putting it all together in an online inquiry based lesson. Monday, we'll work with our template design and uploading to the server. We should finish FTP and file management, all the components you'll need to create your own online site. In preparation for Monday, you need to: > for thoughts about including them as a tool or final project / outcome for your inquiry lesson
 * complete your template 'index' page (we downloaded your template, you need to update one page to look like you might want your final website to be)
 * come in with 1 or 2 content area / topics you'd like to use to create your inquiry lesson
 * review the top 35 educational Web 2.0 tools (http://edudemic.com/2010/07/the-35-best-web-2-0-classroom-tools-chosen-by-you/

Monday, October 17, 2011
Reminder, tonight we not meeting face to face. We're online this week, our last online week. I'll have the weekly assignment posted soon. Randy

Online Session Monday, October 10, 2011
Today, we're going to start the weekly discussions and project. Listed below are the tasks for the week:
 * 1) Review and comment on each of your postings regarding online tools that support student - student interactions.
 * 2) Be sure to have read chapters 4,5, 6, 7 for this week. There is a discussion question on Social Influences. You will need to have an initial posting by Wednesday, October 12th. Be sure to follow the postings and build discussion. There is only 4 of us in the discussion, so I'm hoping we can build a nice dialogue.
 * 3) New Content for the Week: Student - Content Interactions
 * Student to content interactions can be designed in many fashions. Reading content, performing tasks, applying knowledge, creating projects are all methods for putting students in situations to engage new content. In many situations we combine both student - student/student-content interactions as inquiry based learning experiences.
 * We're going to investigate WebQuests as a tool to create web based inquiry lessons. You'll review each of the components and discuss their importance to the overall model and building inquiry. Answer the following guiding questions:
 * What are the components of the Webquest? How do they interact to create an inquiry based lesson? Which part is most critical? What types of interactions should/can/must be included and why? (provide an example webquest with your discussion)
 * What are the positives and negatives of the model as presented?
 * Does this model still work in today's online environment?
 * What would you include in an online inquiry project? Leave out? Why?
 * Final project for week is to create an 'page' on this wiki that presents your findings. These ideas and concepts will serve as the foundation for designing your final online inquiry based project. (see benchmark assignment in resources).

WebQuest Resources

 * WebQuest.org page: []
 * What is a WebQuest video:

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 * Wikipedia description of WebQuest: []
 * Read: Inquiry Based Learning using the Internet: Research, Resources, and WebQuests. [[file:webquestsonline.pdf]]
 * conduct additional research and web searches for background and to find a 'sample' to include in your discussion page.

Homework due Monday, October 10, 2011
For tomorrow, there are a few things to have completed. First, you need to have read Infinite Reality (discussions start tomorrow) Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7. Getting more interesting and more applicable to our discussions in the later chapters...at least in my opinion.

Second, you should have completed your 'template' home page. After downloading the template shell last week, you were to edit the index page to reflect the final look of your site. We'll develop templates and discuss more 'management' of sites next week.

Third, you were to find 3 web based (web 2.0) tools that support student - student interactions. There is a discussion question posted on the site for you to list the site and provide your reflection on how it supports interactions.

Tomorrow afternoon, I'll post the discussion questions for Infinite Reality and the next steps for our investigation of designing interactions (looking at web quests and their pros/cons). We're going to review the final benchmark assignment and you can start to develop your plan.

Monday, October 3, 2011
Tonight, we're going to continue to look at the environment for online learning. We'll start with a discussion of synchronous models like VR, move to looking at asynchronous models and preview examples. Based on our reading, interactions, we'll talk about the pros and cons for both models.

We'll end class with the next step in our web design, tables, documents, templates, and embedding videos / gadgets.

Tonight's Resources:
 * Online Interactions reading (to be done in class)
 * Moodle demonstration
 * Wiki demonstration site
 * Webquest

Web Design
 * free Dreamweaver templates
 * Free website development: Wix
 * Free website development: Yola

Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Glad to see you all took care of your postings for the homework last week. I saw you finished website work as well. You should have completed Chapters 2 and 3 of Infinite Reality. Chapter 3 was much more interesting to me, a bit technical, but the overall idea that people can be so engrossed in VR that their hands sweat while in the ‘pit’ was intense. We clearly didn’t have that experience in SL. It would be nice to have students so invested in their online work. This week were going to look at the key to online learning: interactions.

1 Activity this week: 1. For this week, I started a discussion on Infinite Reality, Chapter 2 and 3. Looking at Are these Really VR Exhibits? and what does it mean for online learning?

Monday, September 19, 2011 Homework

 * 1) Update your annotated bibliography page to include at least 5 resources you use, either in daily teaching or from your program. Include the link and a short annotation (2-3 sentences). - update your web page, upload to the TIE server, send me an email when you're done
 * 2) Review the follow discussion question from our class discussion of virtual reality. There are readings and video on Augmented Reality, with a question about your thoughts and use in education. Click on Discussions above.
 * 3) Read Chapters 2 and 3 of Infinite Reality.

We will have an online resource session next week, looking at interactions online. Your assignment will be posted here next Wednesday afternoon.

Sample Online Courses I found Online:
https://distanceminnesota.org/app/answers/detail/a_id/876/~/trying-free-sample-online-courses