Week Three: Tech Tools and Strategies
The online course can connect faculty to students, students to students, and students to content. Choosing appropriate, accessible tools is the best way of achieving these three goals. |
Spending some time in your course development process to understand what tools are available and accessible will help you to begin to plan your online writing course. This week, we will explore possible tools that you might use for connecting with students, helping students build community, and helping students master course content.
Learning Outcomes: Accessibility Outcomes 1, 2, 3, & 5 Course Design Outcomes 2 & 5 Presence and Interaction Outcomes 3, 4, & 5 |
3.1 Discussion Board: Identifying Tools and Pedagogical Purposes
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As the readings up to this point stress, connection and interaction are key components of a successful online writing course. In Week One, we considered how to design a unit backwards from course goals to understand what materials we might need and how to ensure they were accessible. In Week Two, you created an assignment that incorporated those materials into a document that provided both presentational and content information for students.
This week, we switch focus to exploring the types of tools that you might use to facilitate three types of interaction in our online writing course:
We are discussing technology AFTER you have designed your assignment because, just as OWI Principle #2 states, "An online writing course should focus on writing and not on technology orientation or teaching students how to use learning and other technologies." Thus, you first designed a writing assignment, and you will now think about the technologies you might use to implement that writing assignment in a collaborate way. To complete this week's discussion board:
The rubric for this discussion board is located in Blackboard in the My Grades area. |
3.2 Activity: Technology Map
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For this week's activity, you will develop a Technology Map (very similar to Warnock's table on pages 20 & 21 of his book). To make your Technology Map:
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