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Faculty-Driven Personalized Use of World Wide Web
A Professional Devlopment Workshop
Copyright 2002 by:
Carole Barnett, Ph.D. University of New Hampshire, and
Terence Krell, Ph.D. Western Illinois University - Quad Cities
At the same time that internet/intranet enhanced courses and courseware use continue to proliferate on university campuses, thousands of educators still resist building electronic components into their classroom repertoires. Those are the faculty to whom this session will appeal and to whom it offers immediate benefit.
Faculty who choose not to use commercial applications such as "Blackboard" and "WebCT" in their classrooms should and could have alternatives by participating in this session. We will demonstrate a non-commercial, customized approach to course-related use of the World Wide Web that requires no specialized training. It can be readily used to: establish electronically aided interaction with, between, and among students; increase student learning; and at the same time, make less work for educators. This session serves as a counterbalancing force to the growing trend wherein more and more universities are adopting a single source of e-learning technology and encouraging all faculties to both learn and apply it. Standardizing pedagogical tools is a practice that may conflict with the needs and preferences of thousands of dedicated educators who do their best work when they design their own courses and create or select their own instructional tools. This session will help faculty to develop and implement tailored and personalized e-learning methods and tools that they can begin to use immediately.
Using existing, free World Wide Web services and a computer equipped with Web browser software, participants can create an informative, interactive course web site for their students in under an hour. No programming or specialized training is required.
The first part of the session engages participants in discussing what can be done to assist traditional classroom education; first from a capabilities perspective (see Capabilities.) and then from an educational perspective. (See Examples from Education.) A follow-on activity is our real-time demonstration of what can be done using the resources described above and linked below.
The second part of the session will focus on participants designing and preparing to create their own resources.
Faculty Resources Website (includes discussion of links below)
Free Extra Web-based eMail Addresses
Free Webpages at Topcities.com
Free Form Submission at Freedback.com
Set-up a Free eMail List at Topica.com
Set-up a Free Message Board at Delphi Forums
Send E-Mail to: carole.barnett@unh.edu, terence@ureach.com
Copyright © 2002 Terence Krell. All Rights Reserved