Library Instruction.com The Librarian's Weapon
of Mass Instruction Excerpt quoted from website: This site contains library
instruction lesson plans, articles about library instruction, a large library instruction
bibliography, and links to library instruction resources. This site also includes
material relating to information literacy. http://www.libraryinstruction.com/
September 18, 2002 Excerpt Quoted from website IMS Global Learning Consortium
and WGBH Boston Publish Guidelines for Creating Accessible
Online Learning Technologies http://www.cosn.org/resources/092002.htm The IMS Guidelines
are available on the Web in a screen-reader friendly format as well as
in PDF (ncam.wgbh.org/salt)
and are expected to be an invaluable resource for a broad range of stakeholders in online
education, including educators providing online learning materials, developers of learning
software such as learning management systems and educational software, and educational publishers,
content authors, authoring tool developers and parents, advocates and students
with disabilities themselves. http://ncam.wgbh.org/salt/
Digital Equity Toolkit
available at: www.nici-mc2.org/de_toolkit/pages/toolkit.htm Quoted from site: The toolkit points educators
to free, high quality resources that help address the digital divide in
the classroom and community. The toolkit, edited by Joy Wallace, senior
associate at the National Institute for Community Innovations, is made
possible in part through funding from the U.S. Department of Education's
PT3 (Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to use Technology) and Technology Innovation
Challenge Grant programs. We are committed to continually enhancing the
toolkit's contents; therefore, you may want to consider revisiting the
toolkit at least monthly as new resources are added each week. www.nici-mc2.org/de_toolkit/pages/toolkit.htm
Online Courses for
those wanting to learn about delivering Online Learning
An
Overview of Online Learning By Saul Carliner | Bentley
College – Waltham, Massachusetts This Overview introduces
you to online learning, and provides you with an overview of the key issues
you need to consider when working with online learning.
Ten Things You Can Do
With Online Learning That Most People Think Are Impossible Featuring Janette R.
Hill (powered by TEN-TV)
Introduction
to Knowledge Management for Training and Performance Improvement Professionals Learn the new vocabulary. Find out how to capture,
catalog, transform and disseminate your organization's collective knowledge. Learn how to choose the
right technologies. Get tips for keeping
information timely, accessible and relevant. http://www.vnulearning.com
E-learning Environments Excerpt quoted from site: http://cite.telecampus.com/LMS/ By using online learning
environments, educational organizations can equip students with lifelong
learning skills for today's society, providing them with self-directed
and collaborative learning skills as well
as problem solving strategies in a technological environment.
Course Developers Guidelines Excerpt quoted from site: Purpose This guide has been created
to provide World Wide Web course developers with a set of common standards
and guidelines for publishing courses on line. Some of the standards make
eminent sense to everyone, others have been agreed to just to ensure that
we all develop to a common standard. This makes courses more interchangeable
and usable among those who agree to develop to the accepted standards. http://teleeducation.nb.ca/content/web-guides/english/standards/index.html
Quoted from the site above: Students, teachers, instructors
and administrators are learning how to use computers in their classes,
and many are now turning to the World Wide Web and beginning to understand
its potential for supporting new forms of learning. Although the Internet
is populated with good guides on using the Web, HTML and other features,
one element that has been lacking has been a dedicated publication on the
learner and the teacher, and how they interact and participate together
on the Internet. This online instruction environment has been designed
to assist teachers, students, distance education facilitators and educational
resource developers in using the Internet to its full potential. Who will benefit from
this WebTitle? We hope that this manual
will help those involved in teaching and learning, from students to administrators,
not only in New Brunswick, but wherever the Web reaches, to begin to understand
the potential of the Internet as a teaching resource and a teaching medium
and to prepare to adapt and develop their courses for delivery using the
Web. Learning on the Web is a free Web-based course written by educators
for educators. Print out the Manual's
2002 edition: Note: this is a PDF file, 87 pages http://teleeducation.nb.ca/content/pdf/english/lotw2002.pdf
Technology Intensive
projects require a great deal of money..before you go any further, you
may want to consider, where you might find the money to fund your online
educational projects.
Web
Design for Educators (formerly Designing and
Maintaining Web Pages for Classroom and Online Instruction) X337.2 (2 semester units
in Education)
This course reviews issues,
skills, and tools for developing educational Web pages that both support
classroom curricula and have pedagogical intent
and impact. You design, construct,
and evaluate your own Web pages. Online course: Internet
access required Enroll anytime: You have
6 months to complete $455, plus $50 online
resource fee (EDP 809574) For information and to
enroll http://learn.berkeley.edu
Delivery Format: Internet Course Duration: Up to
6 months from date of enrollment Course Fee: $475.00 Resource Fee: $50.00 EDP#: 207225
X331.6 (3 semester unit(s)
in Education ) This course provides
an overview of Internet-based instructional theory and a hands-on introduction
to the art of instructional Web site design, production, and publishing. It is appropriate for
anyone who wants to learn to use the Internet to teach at a distance or as a
classroom resource. For information and to
enroll http://learn.berkeley.edu
Note this additonal info
from
site: Professional Sequence
in Design and Management of Web-Based Learning (Expected 2003) Program Fee: $50.00 A Sequence in the Design
and Management of Web-Based Learning is under development. The following courses
will be available:
Key Concepts in Web-based
Training and Learning Authoring Tools for Web-based
Learning Managing the Development
of Web-based Instructional Projects Administration of Online
Learning
Other courses of interest
in this area that are now available are: X453.1 Creating Web Sites
with HTML X331.6 Developing Internet-Based
Instruction X387.3 Instructional
Strategies for the Adult and Adolescent Learner X337.2 Web Design for
Educators
Related: see my page
with resources for School Librarians and Educators 4schools.html
From TechLearning -
online article excerpt quoted from
article: May 15, 2002 Choosing a Classroom
Digital Camera By Jeffrey Branzburg This page is designed
specifically with the new-to-technology educator in mind. Please feel free to
reproduce it for use in your teacher training sessions or other staff development
efforts. Read complete article http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/05/inservice.html
Learning More - articles
& classes for instructors & course designers
eLearning
1.0 Find the following articles
Online at http://www.learningcircuits.org/elearn_index.html The basics of digital
learning. New! -- Lights! Camera!
Action! Get Ready to Teach Online Articles available Quoted from site: 2002 05/02 -- Tips to Make
E-Learning Stick 04/02 -- Model Behavior 03/02 -- Super Synchronous
SMEs: Subject Matter Experts as Synchronous Trainers 02/02 -- Something to
Talk About: Tips for Communicating in an Electronic Environment 01/02 -- Buy Versus Build:
A Battle of Needs 2001 01/01 -- Interact! With
Online Learning 2000 12/00 -- Matching Content
to Delivery 11/00 -- Ten Tips to
Optimize Your E-Learning 10/00 -- An E-Learning
Glossary 09/00 -- Crank Up Your
Online Presentations 08/00 -- Going Global
Without Going Overboard 07/00 -- Who Wants to
be a Distance Trainer? 06/00 -- It's a Learner-Centered
World! 05/00 -- Converting to
Web-Based Training: Choices and Trade-Offs 04/00 -- Stave Off These
Seven Pitfalls of Distance Learning 03/00 -- 12 Learning
Interventions That Combat Technophobia 02/00 -- Build a Business
Case for Online Learning Projects 01/00 -- Future Forces
More from Learning
Circuits.org Tech
Tools http://www.learningcircuits.org/ttools_index.html The tools and technologies
helping to shape e-learning. Quoted from site above: Articles available online' 11/01 -- LMS Survival 08/01 -- LCMS 07/01 -- Digital Video 06/01 -- Converting Assetts 05/01 -- Intro to Coursebuilder 04/01 -- Open Sesame 03/01 -- Developing Media
for Low Bandwidth New! -- Authoring Tool
Roundup 12/00 -- An Intro to
Metatagging 11/00 -- Dreamweaver
UltraDev 08/00 -- Revolutionizing
Content for XML 07/00 -- Implementing
a Support Strategy for WBT 05/00 -- Building a Learning
Portal 04/00 -- A Sip of ColdFusion 03/00 -- Macromedia Flash 02/00 -- DVDs Push Multimedia
to a New Level
Learning Circuits - "Answer
Geek" answers: With regard to integrated
learning solutions, can you explain the difference
between distance learning, Web-based training, online
learning, and e-learning?
Here is a terrific site Loretta's
Training Resource Center quicktrainingtips.com Visit the different "topic"
areas covered MicroComputer Trainer
- for those teaching others how to use Computers Quick Training Tips -
lots of good ideas to "teach" and "learn"
From Working
Faster Resource links for Internet
Trainers Quoted from: http://www.workingfaster.com/links.html Papers and presentations
by Workingfaster.com staff and links to our favorite
Internet training resources on the web Download their Free
Worksheets, & Forms Search Planning Worksheet Internet Training Needs
Assessment Internet Trainers Survival
Checklist Ten Commandments of EMail
Interesting
Reading: Internet
Trainer Certification Recommended core competencies & a proposed curricula... By author -Diane Kovacs, http://www.kovacs.com/ Order online her book: The
Cybrarian's guide to developing successful
internet programs & services From the Critics From Booknews Written for librarians
who are already very familiar with the Internet, the guide describes how
to plan, implement, and maintain a local library Web site as an electronic
library; plan, implement, and maintain an electronic journal or newsletter;
and use the Internet to provide distance education. Chapters cover basic
and ideal Internet connectivity and computer platforms required; writing
a project plan, assessing equipment and software needs, staffing, and training;
creating the Internet application; and staffing issues, upgrades, and expansions.
Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Training
program for Staff Quoted from site: TNT:
Training Net Trainers for Dynamite Library Service Designed to enhance the
level of public library staff expertise in the use of the Internet
and to provide them with the skills necessary
to develop and present Internet workshops to
train the public. This project was funded
by Federal LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) monies granted by the
New York State Library to the Upper Hudson Library System. Session
One The first session is
an Internet refresher, covering history, background, navigating
the web and search techniques. and Session
2 The second session focuses
on learning styles, teaching techniques,
planning Internet instruction sessions, how to cope with technology
problems and the needs of special user groups. http://www.uhls.org/tnt/tnthome.html
From WorkingFaster.com Subscribe to the Cyberpulse
Newsletter a quarterly e-mail newsletter about Internet Searching
and Training and SiteLines for Internet
Trainers. Visit their archives
for previous articles. Such as "Teaching End Users to
Search Faster & Smarter". http://www.workingfaster.com/cyberpulse
Visit "The
Teaching Librarian" Stephen Francoeur's Website
- "Exploring the Intersection of Reference Services, Technology,
& Instruction"
From Reference Services
Review V. 29 (3) 2001: Teaching an online information
literacy course Kate
Manuel (pp. 219 - 229) Abstract: Academic librarians
have been creating Web-based tutorials in support of their institutions'
distance education course and remote students for some time. For-credit,
distance education, information literacy classes for undergraduate students,
however, have not yet begun to appear in significant numbers. In creating
such a course, LIBY 3200, California State University, Hayward, sought
to meet the needs of its students better and to explore the potential of
distance education. Findings from experience teaching LIBY 3200 suggest
that many students are less prepared to function - technologically and
cognitively - in a Web-based distance education environment than might
be predicted. Design and delivery of course content proved time-consuming,
with few possibilities for short-cuts, and teaching methods had to be adapted
to help the students become autonomous learners, meaningfully capable of
self-directed learning in a Web-based environment.
From College Student Journal
(and on the Findarticles.com site) Sept. 1999 issue, read: Teaching
through "Teleconferencing" Some Curriculum Challenges
Technology from The Journal
- Roadmap to the web for
Educators T.H.E. Journal http://www.thejournal.com/ This site contains the
current issue of T.H.E. Journal, plus educational links
and gems from past issues. This journal covers many
aspects of technology in education, at all
levels. Issues are thematic, covering topics such
as technological innovations, administration, learning
environments, connectivity and technological
resources. The articles are written
by educators, with a fairly practical
style and little technical jargon.
Read this article offered
through "findarticles.com" School Library Journal August, 2000 Learning
from the Inside.(teaching teens HTML) Author/s: Linda W. Braun Linda W. Braun demystifies
the Internet by instructing students on how to create their
own web pages
Learn more about offering
courses on the web at Blackboard.Com "Blackboard is the fastest
growing platform with which colleges and
universities offer courses online. In excess of 300,000
people use Blackboard software to
teach and learn, and More than 1,000 leading
colleges, universities and K-12
schools nationwide are customers."
Website : Adult Education
Technology
in the Classroom With Resources on Using the Overhead Projector
as an Instructional Tool, The VCR and Camcorder
as teaching tools, The Computer as a teaching
tool, The Internet as a teaching
tool, Distance Learning with
2-way Interactive TV.
Quick Training Tips NewsLetter A free e-mail based newsletter
service, written for and by anyone
who teaches other people to Use Computers Effectively. Computer trainers, Support
Staff, Librarians, Teachers, etc., are signed on and contribute regularly TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE "QUICK TRAINING TIPS"
EMAIL LIST: send a message with "subscribe
tips" in the subject line To: loretta@panix.com
Miscellaneous - Technology
Resources http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/thepoint/edtec.htm Resources for Educational
Technologists is a collection of many
links, including associations, news journals, and Web sites for technology
coordinators.
Aha!
Interactive - Collaborative teaching to Unplud the Internet Check out the Teacher
Command Center and "Warmups' Free Internet
Classroom Activities
http://www.iste.org/ The International Society
for Technology in Education provides teacher-based
help to K-12 schoolteachers and administrators. Click on Teacher Resources for
a diverse list of topics ranging
from hardware/software to professional development.
(from Biology to Social
Studies).. designed by Faculty and
Library staff to incorporate OhioLink
and Library Resources into instructional techniques
and curriculum.
See
my resource page for School Library Media Specialists 4schools.html
Often Instructors ask
questions about Computer Room: Instruction,
Technology, Design, & Software Programs,
etc. You will find Useful
Links on on this Page and Creating
Presentions page
From the Introduction: "As libraries move toward
a fuller concept of library instruction through information
literacy, we need a better understanding
of how people learn and show what they know. When we teach library
skills and processes in computer labs, I worry that we will
leave the students behind in the rush to technology. We feel the urgency to
cover all the databases, teach all the special
features, open the world of information
to our students. At the same time, students
are eager to dive into that monitor, work
that mouse, and search the Internet. In fact, if students
are to learn complex concepts, understand
them fully, and apply them effectively
in their library research, they must experience
learning on a deeper level. (Gardner, 1991)".
Explore the sites From Windener University's
Wolfgram Memorial Library Evaluating
Web Resources The site also promotes
the excellent book - "Web Wisdom" How to evaluate and create
information quality on the web.
"It used to be that students
would wander dusty library stacks, sifting
endlessly through volumes of ancient books in search of pithy quotes and facts. "Today, students are
abandoning the card catalog and turning to the Web
to do research. They can write an entire
paper without ever visiting
the campus library or cracking open
a textbook."
There is a wonderful WEB
Site tutorial from Penn State University
Libraries Information
Literacy & You Take a Look at the Easy
to use design and subject modules.
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