[LM_NET] Online courses teaching Information Literacy through technology

[Dave Fontaine <davefontaine1@GMAIL.COM>]

 Hi,

I just wanted to let everyone know about these great online courses for
educators.  They focus on using technology in education. (EDC 922 is a cool
new one.  At the end of the semester the participants' get *free
textbooks*for their entire school district.)  Check it out.  The
descriptions are
below.



Registration deadline, January 16, 2009
EDC 920:  *USING THE INTERNET FOR TEACHING, LEARNING, & PRACTICAL
APPLICATION* (3) grad credits.
 Registration cost: $500.00*
(If you have never taken a course at URI before, the course cost is $535.00
which includes a onetime transcript fee charge of $35.00)



Students will learn how to find relevant information among the abundance of
raw data found online, evaluate its worth and credibility, and effectively
use it to solve an issue or problem. Students will also learn "Information
Literacy Skills" (how to develop their own 'research and evaluation' skills)
and transfer this knowledge to the students in their classrooms. This will
occur by continuously integrating practical application, real research
projects for their individual classrooms, and discipline specific lesson
plans. Appropriate for grades K-12.

This is an online, asynchronous course with no classroom meetings. There is
no designated time that you have to be on line.  Each week's lesson is
posted on line and participants have 7 days to complete and post their
assignments. Students will interact completely through a blog, as well as
learn what a blog is, how to use one, and how to access educational blogs
from teachers around the world. All lessons will be completely downloadable
and, therefore, reusable in your own classrooms.



Course Instructor: Dave Fontaine <http://www.visualcv.com/davefontaine>,
NBCT
Registration Contact:  Christine P. Dolan at *Christine@uri.edu*
Class Meeting Dates:  January 19, 2009-May 1, 2009

*Registration deadline, January 16, 2009*


EDC 921: *USING BLOGS AND WIKIS TO FOSTER LITERACY* (3) Graduate Credits
Registration cost:$500.00*
(If you have never taken a course at URI before, the course cost is $535.00
which includes a onetime transcript fee charge of $35.00.)



This course focuses on the pragmatism of using Web 2.0 (interactive tools)
in education. Participants will learn how to use interactive, online tools
to: foster literacy in and out of school; Differentiate Instruction; deepen
learning and increase student achievement; create opportunities to bring
these technologies to the larger school community; and identify assessment
tools that measure the effectiveness of Interactive Web technologies in
their personal practice as well as with their students. Appropriate for
grades K-12

This is an online, asynchronous course with no classroom meetings. There is
no designated time that you have to be on line.  Each week's lesson is
posted on line and participants have 7 days to complete and post their
assignments. All lessons will be completely downloadable and, therefore,
reusable in your own classrooms.



Course Instructor: Dave Fontaine <http://www.visualcv.com/davefontaine>,
NBCT
Registration Contact:  Christine P. Dolan at *Christine@uri.edu*
Class Meeting Dates:  January 19, 2009-May 1, 2009

*Registration deadline, January 16, 2009*




EDC 922: *Online Texts in the 21st Century Classroom*  (3) Graduate Credits
Registration cost:$500.00*
(If you have never taken a course at URI before, the course cost is $535.00
which includes a onetime transcript fee charge of $35.00.)


In the 21st century, teachers and students are finding traditional textbooks
less useful <http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgpppkm4_410dzk7z9fr>.  Most are
out-of-date before they reach the classroom. Teachers only use a fraction of
the material, and the costs have skyrocketed; even the smallest districts
spend over $100,000/year on textbooks!

More and more teachers are beginning to access online resources like:
interactive tutorials, videos, edu-games, and podcasts to supplement their
instruction. In this economic climate, and with the proliferation of free,
quality content on the Internet, is it possible to create your own digital
textbooks?

The answer is *yes* and the movement is already underway!  Some of the
greatest minds are banding together to harness their Collective
Intelligence<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence>.
They are collaboratively writing textbooks and giving them away for free for
the common-good through a non-profit organization called
CK-12<http://ck-12.org/>.
Learn about this movement, share your own knowledge, and let your district
benefit from the generosity of others.


Save and retain each week's lesson in its entirety so that you may review it
repeatedly and manipulate it for your own classroom use.  Learn about Creative
Commons Licensing <http://creativecommons.org/about/> and how it allows you
to keep, modify, and share each week's lesson.

Participants will explore and use collaborative, online tools like wikis to
improve instruction, as well as create digital textbooks from Open Source
material <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources>. They
will also contribute, and gain access, to unlimited amounts of *free*digital
*textbooks* that can be used in their classrooms, schools, and districts and
create an Open Source chapter/subsection that will be shared with the world!


This is an online, asynchronous course with no classroom meetings. There is
no designated time that you have to be online.  Each week's lesson is posted
online and participants have 7 days to complete and post their assignments.
Students will interact completely through a blog.

This is a 3-credit, graduate level course offered through the University of
Rhode Island.



Course Instructor: Dave Fontaine <http://www.visualcv.com/davefontaine>,
NBCT
Registration Contact:  Christine P. Dolan at Christine@uri.edu

Class Meeting Dates:  January 19, 2009-May 1, 2009

*Registration deadline, January 16, 2009*





Christine P. Dolan
Education Specialist
URI/CCE Providence Campus
Special Programs Room 208
80 Washington Street
Providence, RI 02903
Office: 401.277.5388
Fax: 401-277-5060

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