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July 19, 2001
- Site of the Day
- Work, work, work!!!!
- Please keep in mind the e-mail from Craig:
- In cases where there is a lot left to finish, it might make
sense to "scale back" the overall project so what
is there can be finished.
- Many people have NOT included plans for evaluation of their
curriculum web (as opposed to assessment of the student learning).
- The use of a consistent template benefits the product ENORMOUSLY.
Those participants who have not used a template should be encouraged
to use one. They aren't that hard to create or apply.
- People should avoid use of animation and large images where
they add nothing to the instructional value of the web. Generally,
no one image on a web page should be larger than 60K. To see
how big the images on a page are, click on View|Page Info in
Netscape Navigator, then click on each image in the list of
images to get information about that image.
- The Teaching Guide (I prefer this name to teacher's guide,
but both work) should spell out the learning objectives for
the particular curriculum web, as well as listing Chicago Academic
Standards (or other standards). Putting your learning objectives
into your own words is enormously helpful for knowing whether
the web is going to really be successful. Merely pointing to
Chicago Academic Standards does little to describe the actual
outcomes expected from using the web.
- EVERY PAGE should have a last-modified date and a statement
of who made the page and a link for email. Yes, EVERY page.
- Sources should be given for any images "stolen"
from elsewhere.
- Avoid pages that are very long, requiring a lot of scrolling.
Break these up into shorter pages.
- See the module evaluation rubric at http://cuip.uchicago.edu/wit/2001/mentors/WITModuleAssessment.htm
for a list of issues to consider when evaluating a module.
- Remember to review the 3 curriculum webs that you selected
on Tuesday, and make a final decision on only 2. The links are
listed below:
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