[LM_NET] Seeking Online Collaboration Exploration (EDC 923)

[Dave Fontaine <davefontaine1@GMAIL.COM>]

This has the potential to be a cool, interactive class this summer.  Please
pass it on to your peers.


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From: Christine Dolan <christine@uri.edu>
Date: Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:50 PM
Subject: 09 SUM class Online Collaboration Exploration (EDC 923)
To: RITEACHERS@listserv.uri.edu


Hi Everyone,
>    We have created a NEW internet online course: EDC 923: *Online
> Collaboration Exploration*.
>
> Registration deadline, July 8, 2009
>
> 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 is an opportunity for technologically adept educators to become
> educational visionaries committed to professional development through
> strictly online planning, collaboration and reflection.
>
> Course Instructor: Dave Fontaine, NBCT
>
> Class Meeting dates: July 13-24, 2009*
>     *Students will need to participate in every session’s online
> synchronous collaboration discussion which will meet online UNINTERRUPTED on
> Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 9 until noon on (Tuesdays) July 14, 21
> and (Thursdays) July 16 and 23.
>
> Participants must have high-speed internet access, a technologically
> inquisitive mind, openness to explore emerging technology and willingness to
> share.
>
>  Logistical Requirements:
> ·      STRONGLY RECOMMENDED--(2) of the following courses successfully
> completed: EDC920, EDC921, EDC922  (This isn't mandatory if you feel that
> you are already 'well-versed' in using online applications and Web 2.0.)
> ·      Windows 98 compatible computer access (or better)
> ·      High-Speed Internet Access
> ·      Headset and microphone (already integrated into computer system)
> This means that you know how to use it to speak and hear.
> ·      Access to webcam, scanner, digital camera, VPU and other
> technologies may be very handy depending on tasks at hand, but not
> mandatory.
>
> Course Description:
> This course will utilize online collaborative programs to identify
> obstacles and opportunities to educational progress in online collaboration
> addressing 3 areas of collaboration: student-to-student, lesson planning
> among peers, and professional development. Participants will gain hands-on
> experience with, evaluate potentials of, and propose plans for use of online
> collaborative lesson/meetings in their own school settings.
>
> Extended Description: This course will use both asynchronous posting (blog)
> and synchronous discussion (online meetings). It is strongly recommended
> that interested participants have already taken (2) of the following URI EDC
> 900 level Workshops for Teachers: EDC 586 (formerly EDC 920) TOPIC: Using
> the Internet for Teaching, Learning, & Practical Applications, EDC 586
> (formerly EDC 921) TOPIC: Using Blogs and Wikis to Foster Literacy, or EDC
> 922 TOPIC: Online texts in the 21st Century Classroom. (This isn't mandatory
> if you feel that you are already 'well-versed' in using online applications
> and Web 2.0.)
>
>
> This graduate level course is designed to be highly interactive and
> investigative. As technology evolves, the use of online collaboration offers
> the possibilities of ongoing, dynamic educational content creation in any
> number of mediums (i.e. Word, Excel) and  accessed from remote locations.
> Technology has evolved to a degree that no longer do student projects,
> lesson plans or professional development initiatives have to be confined to
> a single location. Teachers (as well as teaching practices) need to undergo
> the same evolution to meet the needs of the workplace in the 21st Century.
> As noted in all the previous EDC920-922 “online courses”, the Internet (via
> such tools as search engines, blogs, wikis, digital textbooks...) attempts
> to keep pace with a rapidly changing, dynamic and ever-growing collection of
> information and content. Collaborative cataloging, collaborative discussion,
> collaborative content, and collaborative authoring tools abound. Everywhere
> professionals and students alike are working together on ever increasing
> quantities and qualities of materials without ever having to travel.
> The course will address 3 areas of collaboration: student-to-student,
> lesson planning among peers, and professional development.  As this is a
> collaborative experience designed to meet the needs of the participants
> enrolled, all participants will be required to fully participate in all 3
> areas during the course.
>
>  Participants of this course will:
> ·      Understand basic concepts of online collaboration.
> ·      Meet and network with like-minded, technologically eager,
> educational professionals.
> ·      Identify potential areas of educational use of online collaboration.
> ·      Formulate teams of common interest on targeted topics.
> ·      Share and heighten common depth of knowledge regarding online
> collaborative endeavors.
> ·      Create opportunities to bring these technologies to the larger
> school community.
> ·      Prepare to incorporate these tools into professional practice.
> ·      Develop a supportive, reflective virtual professional community
> around online collaboration
> ·      Use Vyew (or better) platform as a foundation for future online
> collaborative endeavors.
>
> Registration Contact: Christine P. Dolan at <mailto:Christine@uri.edu>
> Christine@uri.edu
>

Christine P.Dolan
Education Specialist
URI Feinstein Providence CCE Campus
Special Programs Office
80 Washington Street, Room 208
Providence, RI 02903-1803
Office: 401-277-5388
Fax:401-277-5060

School of Education
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Kingston, RI 02881
Office: 401-874-4108
Fax: 401-874-5471

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