Workshop Info

Moving through the modules

The workshop is actually a set of five modules. The modules blend principles of web based instruction, activities to help you prepare your own web site to better serve your students, and strategies and materials to help you help other faculty develop their sites.

The five modules take roughly three to four hours apiece to complete, but the actual time it takes you depends on your prior experience with web page development, how much of your course is already in electronic form, and how much "extra" stuff you want to do (we know from experience how we tend to get caught up trying to "push the envelope").

Each module consists of five sections: Introduction, Context, Apply, Reflect, and Extend (I CARE). We recommend that you proceed through I CARE and, indeed, through modules 1 through 5, in order. Those with more advanced technical or other expertise can judge when to skip material.

  1. Module 1 presents an overview and rationale for learning online, as well as walking you through tutorials on how to create an instructor home page and a promotional, or "marketing" page for one of your courses.

  2. Module 2 helps you prepare graphics and media files for your web pages and provides instruction on using a web page editor. Activities will walk you through the steps to create a "topics" and other pages for your course.

  3. Module 3 lays the ground work and rationale for engaging your students in active learning on your web site. This module will also guide you to explore an online learning activity called a WebQuest, and prompt you to create a WebQuest for your own course. We will also be exploring other types of online active learning.

  4. Module 4 presents strategies for building learning communities with your students and peers. Job aids provide information to help you set up advanced features of email, newsgroups, and listservs.

  5. Module 5 interviews two CSU professors about their web-based courses and offers strategies and suggestions for course development. You'll be asked to submit a plan for mentoring colleagues and have an opportunity to develop your own personal web-based portfolios.

We hope you'll enjoy!

So, what will I need...?

Each participant will need a web editor, such asClaris Home Page (a highly rated HTML editor), although any web editor will do. You may want to use a graphics editor as well for editing graphics.

NOTE: Simply download the software from the Tools page, and use the templates and job aids provided in the course modules or from the Templates page.