| Association of Colleges of Illinois Introduction to the Internet Faculty Workshop |
Webizing Courses Templates
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In this workshop, you will learn about integrating the web into your courses, with an emphasis on student learning. The web is not a magical educational panacea that will solve the ails of education, but it can facilitate a creative, active learning approach to education in which students take challenges and assume responsibilities to become creators (not merely passive receivers) of knowledge.
Click on the blue links for examples of the course resources. These examples come from my own course on web publishing which is offered at Millikin University every semester.
Webizing a course often means creating a web site for a course which provides information to your students throughout the semester. You can put your syllabus on the web site, with links to full descriptions of various assignments and class schedule. If you include dynamic information which changes on a regular basis, your students will get in the habit of checking the class web site for announcements, assignments and other learning opportunities.
The web site can provide a directory to the students in your course. This makes it easy for you and your students to communicate with each other. The directory might take the form of email addresses or links to each student's own web site. The web site also becomes a place for collaboration; groups of students may work on a common document or project through the web. For example, students may create a web site for a local children's museum.
You may want to prepare presentations using a web page to link to examples on the web or to other resources. Such a presentation may be given during a class, with the opportunity for students to return to web site for review or closer consideration on their own whenever they wish. Student presentations can likewise be designed and presented on the web for groups or individuals.
Access to web resources related to your course can also be provided through the class web site. These resources may include your own academic research (essays, workshops, speeches or publications) often indexed in your vita or someone else's bibliography including web links. Students may want to create annotated web-bibliographies of resources.
The web is an excellent way to bring accountability to student learning through student publishing such as the project by young children at North Carolina Community Fourth Grade Digital Connection. Student research and subsequent web reports can be published on the web for other students and the general web public to enjoy, appreciate or respond to. Student performance is "on the line" and will have consequences when it is public. Therefore, I also encourage students to provide introductions and commentaries on their work, usually in the form of a web portfolio in which students explain their goals, purposes and constraints of their portfolio examples. Here is another example of another web portfolio.
- Use Netscape Communicator to view the page you want to copy from the web.
- Under the FILE menu in Netscape, choose EDIT PAGE.
- After the page is completely loaded in the Netscape editor, choose SAVE PAGE AS and rename the html file. (Remember to use no spaces and add ".html" when you rename the file). For example, you might name the file "english307syllabus.html" for a syllabus page.
Tip-->if there are several graphics on the page, you may want to CREATE a new folder or directory in order to keep the page and all of its graphics in one place.- SAVE the file.
- QUIT or EXIT Netscape editor and Netscape browser.
- Open the file in your web editor (such as PageMill) by using the FILE OPEN command from the menubar of the editor. (You will not be able to open the file by double-clicking on it.)
- Use the SAVE AS command from within your editor to save the page again, then it is ready for continuing development in that editor.