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Optional
Text-If you don't have a background in learning theory and instructional
design, you may find the following text helpful. It is not required for this
course but rather as a suggested fundamental text for people who design
instruction.
Designing
Effective InstructioN by Gary R. Morrison, Steven M. Ross, and Jerrold E.
Kemp
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 5
edition (October 27, 2006)ISBN-10: 0470074264
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Required
Software
You must have Microsoft Office (specifically Word and
PowerPoint) or the open source equivalent of Microsoft Office. See
http://www.openoffice.org/.
If you use OpenOffice,
always save your documents in Microsoft Office formats (i.e., .doc, .ppt).
You should have the latest
non-beta version of your favorite Web browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer,
Safari, etc.), and the latest version of the free Flash Player. Visit
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=Shockwa
Jackie Dobrovolny, PhD
Adjunct Professor, University of Colorado Denver, and owner
of Triple Play: All Bases Covered.
Email:
jdoffice1@comcast.net
Jackie teaches part-time in the ILT program at UC Denver and
has an HPT (human performance technology) business called Triple Play. Her
past clients include Center for Nursing Excellence, Colorado Community
College System, J.D. Edwards, National Cable Television (NCTI), National
Indian Gaming Commission, National Park Service, Nurse Family Partnership,
Up With People, URS, and Western Cooperative for Educational
Telecommunications (WCET).
A long time ago, in a far-away galaxy, Jackie worked for
McDonnell Douglas Corp where she managed a team that supported a computer
based instructional development product. One of the best things about that
experience was the trips to Australia to support our clients "down under."
Jackie's dissertation focused on how adults learn from
self-paced, technology-based corporate training. She was fortunate to be
able to replicate that research at the Health Sciences Center, which is now
part of UC Denver.
Jackie has been active in the ISPI Front Range Chapter for
many years, including serving as president twice. She is a strong advocate
of professional development organizations such as ISPI.
Jackie is also a huge Rockies fan and lives with her husband
(Ken) and three cats (Chaco, Kiva, and Pumpkin Pie) in Aurora, CO, a suburb
east of Denver.
Brian Yuhnke, MEd:
Instructional Technology, BA Video & Audio Production from
Kent State University
Email:
Brian.Yuhnke@ucdenver.edu
A firm believer that if teaching is boring for the faculty
then it certainly is for the students, Brian is motivated by the use of
technology to make learning fun and innovative. He does radically cool stuff
with video, supports the Adobe Connect System, (web conferencing and online
lecture
recording) researches emerging technologies and all kinds of
other randomness for CU Online at the University of Colorado Denver. He is a
co host of the TechHEds (Technology in Higher Education ) Podcast
Brian is also the Creative Director for RawVoice Inc. A new
media company specializing in Podcast/Videocast delivery. RawVoice is the
technology behind The Blubrry, Podcaster News and TechPodcasts communities.
He also runs the website: Logobot2000.com which serves as a low cost
solution to help new media producers with professional branding.
Brian is an avid hockey fan and player who has a passion for
music and food.
You can find him in his spare time eating wings and cheering
on the Buffalo Sabres.
veFlash to install the Flash Player.
The ILT program and UCD will provide you, free of charge, an
Adobe Connect account. Web 2.0 tools, like blogs and del.icio.us, are
available on the Web free of charge.
Given that we have 15 students enrolled in IT5660, and the webinar
teams are teams of three, the class will develop a total of five
webinars. The participants in each of these webinars are the students
in this class. So, that means you will be a participant in four
webinars and a presenter in one.
There are tons of Web 2.0 tools so we are in the process of selecting
about eight or nine and then we will ask you to select your favorite
three. We will then put the teams together based on your
preferences. The Web 2.0 tools we are currently considering are
listed below. If there is a Web 2.0 tool you really want to learn
and it is not on the list, please let us know.
* Twitter
* Ning
*Virtual Worlds
* Blogs
* Mogulus
* UTube
* Wiki Media
Part of your preparation for your webinar will be to review one or
more of the recorded webinars presented by students last
semester. Accordingly, none of the Web 2.0 tools they covered
(GoogleDocs, Second Life, Jing, Moodle, Podcasting, Wikis, Flickr,
Voicethread) are available for you this semester. You will, however,
be able to view as many of the recorded webinars as you want and can
attend the revised version of any of those webinars. The students in
IT5670 will be presenting their revised webinars this semester so if
you are really interested in one of those Web 2.0 tools, you can
attend the webinar.
We will email you again next week with information about the second
major project in this course, i.e., the EdWeb.
In the mean time, if you have any questions about the course, please
feel free to contact either Brian or me. Both of our email address
are shown in the header of this message.
Cheers!
Jackie and Brian
ADMISSION:
The following link will give you information on how to
officially apply to the program:
http://www.cudenver.edu/Academics/Colleges/School of Education/Program
Admissions/Pages/default.aspx
After being accepted to the graduate program, you will
receive information about the registration process, (including your student
ID and PIN number), by mail in approximately 2 weeks. We recommend you call
the Registrar’s office sometime next week at 303-556-2389 to receive your
student ID and PIN number over the phone (it will take approximately a week
to get your application processed).
Please note that before you can register, you will be asked for a $200
tuition deposit that you can pay online. If you need assistance with this,
please call the Bursar's office at 303-5556-2710.
The information you will need in order to register is the course: IT 5660
Section OL1 Designing and Teaching in eLearning Environments, and the call
number(the number you register with).
If you are a resident of somewhere besides Colorado, the call number is
30891, and you will register through the “Extended Studies” portion of the
S.M.A.R.T. registration system
(https://hydra.cusys.edu/pinnacle/cgi-bin/sisget.cgi> Thank you,
Jannette