Participants  Linda Burke, Amy Fahey, John Owrey

Introduction

We are three faculty and academic professionals in higher education, with responsibilities in assisting our colleagues in taking the technology plunge (or wade as the case may be). Our common interest is in assisting faculty who wish to acquire both skills and perspective in using Web-based technology in their teaching. We discussed methods which would be supportive of our colleagues, and allow self-directed learning to take place. We decided a web site which was accessible to our faculty might offer these options. The site could be used either as alternative to individual tutoring or supplement to it.

Background

Linda Burke is the Technology Coordinator of the School of Education of Saint Xavier University, Chicago. Her role (on top of a regular teaching load) is to bring the SOE web page online and train faculty to use the Web and other technology in their teaching. Amy Fahey is Director, Office of Information Technology and Systems in the College of Applied Life Studies , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign . She is the College webmaster and manages the colleges technology resources.  John wants to reach educators new to delivering courses on the web.

Goals

• User-friendly Web based tutorials for faculty who wish to develop their own web pages and how to publish them. (HTML 101)
• A step by step guide on how to setup your Personal Web Server
• How to publish your documents to PDF format with Adobe Acrobat Exchange
• A user guide to courseware: Nicenet, WebBoard, WebCT, CourseInfo, including a comparative features table and links to the online demos.

Planning and Activities

• Search for web sites and other printed material which could form the basis of the web sites.
• Divide the sections by group members interest and expertise.
• Set up a server site at UIC.
• Organize the material and place it in a consistent, accessible format which allows for both step-by-step learning and the ability to locate information on a particular topic.
• Integrate sections and place then on our respective servers.
• Ask for feedback from new users and track their use in production.

Possible Software

Front Page 98 Microsoft Personal Web Server and access to the courseware programs

Possible Hardware

Jiis  server at UIC

Audiences

Higher education  faculty and staff at Saint Xavier University, University of Illinois at Champaign and Chicago, possibly K-12 teachers later

Resources (note this are not yet linked)

http://www.angelfire.com/ct/dillane/
First Web Page

http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/teachingtool/html.html
Good basic explanation of HTML

http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/teachingtool/index.html
list of how to's

http://dtp-aus.com/sitetopics.html
detailed tutorials beginning with basics. Lots of background

http://Stars.com/Authoring/HTML/Tutorial/toc.html
full line of online tutorials

http://www.cwru.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html
Case Western award winning

http://www.englib.cornell.edu/instruction/aolpress/aolpress.html
Creating your own webpage using AOLPress

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5969/index.html
HTML 101: An Introduction to Web Publishing

http://web.marshall.edu/html101/
Learning HTML B online Tutorial http://mmm.dartmouth.edu/web/learn.html

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
NCSA=s original B Beginner=s Guide to HTML

http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/ecat/web/starting.html
University of Arizona B Ways you can learn about HTML

CourseInfo Company Site http://www.blackboard.com/

Evaluating Online Course-Delivery Software

http://www.ctt.bc.ca/landonline/
CourseInfo FAQ

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/Courses/demottb/generator_faq.html

Article about CourseInfo from Syllabus Magazine
http://www.cit.cornell.edu/atc/cst/syllabus.pdf

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Queen=s University WebCT Information Site
http://webct.queensu.ca/webct/index.html

WebCT Online Help

http://homebrew.cs.ubc.ca:8900/web-ct/help/help_idx.html

http://www.center.iupui.edu/webct.html
Indiana University's WebCT page
 

Evaluation

• Ask both expert users and novices to test run site.
• Track users.
• Provide a feedback instrument on the site.

Questions & Concerns