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Assignment to be completed prior to Workshop 1:
After you (1) become familiar with the Web and computer terminology in section I of Workshop 1, (2) take some time to look at course sites within your field . Consider the following questions: Which course site is your favorite? Why is it your favorite? Consider the site's goals, its appearance and its ease of use. Which site is your least favorite? What are the problems with this site? (3) Now visit the workshop homepage and contribute to the newsgroup discussion. Please introduce yourself, state your expectations for these workshops, and discuss what type of experience you have with the Web. You will also need to bring the following:
As you (1) fill out the planning sheet handout , think about the advantages and disadvantages of building a web site for your course. (2) As you are sketching out your course site, what are your thoughts about how your course site might add to the what you could do in a traditional classroom? Post a message outlining your thoughts to the newsgroup. (3) Using the planning sheet handout you received in Workshop 1, create a draft of your course site on paper. (4) Copy two images and four site locations (URLs) onto your floppy disk to be used in creating an online course site.
You will need to bring the following to Workshop 2:
You have now created a basic course site with links to a syllabus and a resource page. In this workshop we will consider different ways to expand the use of our course site. To learn more about new elements used in course sites (1) complete our web activity and contemplate the pedagogical advantages and disadvantages to instructor-created web activities as well as commercially produced web exercises. After completeing the web exercise. (2) Consider some of the challenges and solutions for managing a course site, and contribute to the newsgroup one potential challenge - and its respective solution(s) - in incorporating web technology into your course. Bring your answers to the questions in the web activity.
Assignment to be completed prior to Workshop 4:
The first part of your assignment is to look at some professional pages of other graduate students that are currently online. Analyze which features would be useful to you professionally and what you might change. Post to the newsgroup one aspect you find effective about a page, and one aspect you find less effective. The next part of your assignment is to create a rough draft of your own professional page. Feel free to follow along with the tutorial on the workshop 4 homepage . However, you should have the skills now to create your professional page without detailed directions, so you don't have to follow the tutorial. We will spend some time in class looking over your pages and answering any questions you have. You will also need to bring the following:
Prior to the workshop you should visit the website for the Washington University Graduate Online Lecture Project . Once there you should view the online multimedia presentation "Graduate Online Lecture Project Overview" produced by Liberman Fellow David Callon. David Callon's presentation will give you a brief overview of the project.
Next you should view either view the Graduate Online lecture, "Fueling the Brain: a Comparative Study of Cerebral Metabolism in Humans and Other Mammals" , produced by GOL participant Jason Kaufman, or the Graduate Online lecture, "Territorial Currents: Waterways and River Gods" produced by GOL participant Felicia Else. As you watch the lecture think about how you would go about communicating your specialized research to a broad audience.
Click here for directions on viewing the Graduate Online Lectures.