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TEP 297 Advanced Technologies for Learning & Teaching
Winter 2004

Class Syllabus

Week 1 (Jan 8): Introduction

For next week:

Read: Etienne Wenger's web site especially http://www.ewenger.com/ewthemes.html

Read: Grinter & Palen article "Instant Messaging in Teen Life"

Project: keep a week-long diary of your own computational and communication technology use, noting which you use for what purposes and what the strengths and weaknesses are of each. You can use this log file template or something similar

Project: contribute a research challenge to the TSE Research Challenge web site or choose a challenge to join

Week 2 (Jan 15): Collaboration: Creating a community of educational researchers for yourself

For next week:

Analyze: your diary, categorizing the uses and the strengths and weaknesses

Write: Proposal of a major research project for this seminar. If you want, use this major project proposal prompter.

Read: Burbules & Lambeir "The importance of new technologies in promoting collaborative educational research"

Week 3 (Jan 22): Collaboration

For next week:

Explore this web site for a symposium in last year's AERA: Analyses of Online Communities of Learners

Project: explore a range of community building environments and assemble a set that are appropriate for you

Read: Culp, Honey, & Mandinach paper "A Retrospective on Twenty Years of Education Technology Policy"

Explore: the National Education Technology Plan web site

Week 4 (Jan 29): Policy

For next week:

Write: a description of set the community environments that you've chosen, why you selected them, and how they're working out so far

Week 5 (Feb 5): Policy

For next week:

Write: a short paper exploring the implications of the Culp et al. retrospective for an educational setting or organization of your choice

Write: Progress Report of major project

Go through: the Gestalt Principles and Web Design web site

Read Michelle Hinn's Alternative Web Design Guide

Skim through the Yale Web Style Guide (treat it like a reference book - focus on what's there so you can come back to it later).

Week 6 (Feb 12): Design

For next week:

Discussion activity: take a position in the "Powerpoint controversy"
Pro: David Byrne "Learning to Love PowerPoint"
Con: Tufte's "PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely"

Week 7 (Feb 19): Design

For next week:

Project: redesign one of your own web pages, following design guidelines & principles

Read: Levin & Miyake "top down approach" paper

Read: Memorable troubleshooting stories at http://cternt1.ed.uiuc.edu/troublestories/ (a bottom-up approach)

Write: a week-long diary of your own troubleshooting (technical, personal, social, etc.). Use this template log file or something similar.

Week 8 (Feb 26): Troubleshooting

For next week:

Analyze and write: analyze your own diary - are you a "top down", "bottom up" or combined troubleshooter? What other patterns do you see in your own problem solving

Week 9 (Mar 4): Troubleshooting

For next week:

Write: submit a memorable troubleshooting story to the Memorable Troubleshooting site

Write: Draft of final project report

Week 10 (Mar 11): Summary

Final: Reports of major projects


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