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Assignments |
Wed Jan 3
Before Chat |
Click on the links below and follow the instructions to download
software for chatting online. Install the software and try it
out. Your facilitator will send you e-mail with the name of the
chat server to connect to. The MSchat (PC) software is free.
The ChatNet (Mac) software is not, but Fermilab has purchased
this for you and your facilitator will e-mail you the needed
license information.
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Sun Jan 7
Midnight |
Note: This seems like a long list, but many of the items just
take a few minutes.
- Bookmark your Winter
2001 LInC Online Home Page.
You can reach everything you need in this course starting from
this page.
- Respond to the e-mail from lgill@fnal.gov with administrative
questions. Please reply only to lgill@fnal.gov and not to
ed-lincon5@fnal.gov because otherwise everyone will get three
dozen messages about each other's spring breaks etc.
- Submit Technical
Skills Pre-evaluation Form. Choose Fermilab, IL as
your group. Clarification: Each person needs to submit this form
individually.
- Submit Participant
Information Pre-evaluation Form. Choose Fermilab, IL
as your group. Clarification: Each person needs to submit this
form individually.
- U.S. mail back the Participant agreement in the pre-addressed
envelope in your LInC mailing. If you want to register for 4.5
graduate credits, also include the registration form and $225
check to Aurora University in the same envelope. Registering
for credit is optional. If you wish to see the syllabus
before you decide, it is on page IN 25 in your book. The course
work and facilitator attention are the same whether you take
for credit or not.
- Read LInC book pages IN 6-24 (yellow section). This is about
19 printed pages in total. Note: You do not need to follow and
read all the links contained in these 5 web pages - reading just
the 5 web pages is all that is intended. Bring questions to this
week's chat.
- Browse through the Seed
Connection example LInC project. You can view it online or
look at the printed copy sent in your U.S. mail packet. You do
not need to read every word. Just spend ~30 min to get a concrete
idea of what an end-product for this course looks like and what
components are in a project.
- Also take 30 minutes to browse through one other project
example at the grade level you teach from the LInC
Project examples (EL 17) page.
Again, you do not need to read every word. Just get a feel for
what you will be creating for this class.
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Sun Jan 14
Midnight |
- Read the COW
Electronic Bulletin Board (TS 10) web page.
- Post a message in the COW
Electronic Bulletin Board
Topic: Introductions, Subtopic: Your Team's Name,
Browse through the existing topics and subtopics,
Change your COW password, and
Fill in your User Profile.
- After the Jan 10 chat, read the first 20 pages of
Plugging In.
This is the yellow booklet that was in your LInC packet. The
first 20 pages is the first 2 sections which are
- Analyze the Seed
Connection example LInC project that was in your packet.
What engaged learning and technology use indicators are present
and absent? Be ready to discuss this in the Jan 17 chat.
- View the Fishbowl
Model Project Discussion (EL 20)
and come to Jan 17 Chat prepared to discuss what you have seen.
This is a javascript animation that takes about 10 minutes to
view. If you have trouble with it, please view instead the Low Tech
Fishbowl Model Project Discussion.
- Read Project
Elements: Bridging the Gap (EL 23).
How you would rate the items in the yellow tables? Jot down some
notes. If you think they are well written, describe why. If they
are poorly written, how would you improve them? We will discuss
these in the Jan 17 chat.
- Read about and get started on the Education
and Technology project simulation (EL 7) you will be participating
in over the next week. This will be due on January 21. Do not
spend more than 6 hours next week on the simulation so that you
will have time for the other assignments.
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Sun Jan 21
Midnight |
- Form an issue-team working with the people that you think
you are likely to be creating your LInC Project with. As an issue-team,
select an issue that you are interested in for the Education
Technology Simulation (EL 5). It can be an ed-tech issue
that is not listed on that page. Create one posting (as an issue-team)
for your issue in the COW
Topic: Ed Tech Simulation Collaboration to get input from
participants in other districts. Post this early in the week
(Mon-Wed). Start a new conversation in COW for your issue. Also,
if you like, you can schedule to chat with other participants
to get their input. Use the Internet to find out recent information
about your issue and/or to contact an expert for an opinion.
- Respond individually to at least one other group's issue
in COW in the
Topic: Ed Tech Simulation Collaboration during the week
to give them input for their projects. Post this early in the
week (Tue-Thur) so your colleagues have a chance to view it before
posting their work. Reply to the same conversation they have
already created.
- Post your presentation on your selected issue for the Education
Technology Simulation in the COW
Topic: Ed Tech Simulation Presentations. Include a few
links (URLs) for useful related resources. Also include first-hand
information about how the issue is handled in your district and
how it is handled in one or more of your colleagues' districts.
Start a new conversation (subtopic) for your presentation
in the COW
One posting per issue-team is all that is needed. We suggest
you write your post in a text editor first and then copy and
paste it into the bulletin board. Please include the names of
all the people on your issue-team somewhere in your "presentation"
posting.
- Read these three web pages before the next chat. Jot down
one question you would ask each author for #2. Jot down one way
you would improve each proposal for #3. Be ready to share and
discuss these during the chat.
- Analyzing
Project Proposals 1 (Before and After) (EL
34)
- Analyzing
Project Proposals 2 (Before and After) (EL
39)
- Analyzing
Project Proposals 3 (Before and After) (EL
43)
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Sun Jan 28
Midnight |
- Read these five web pages. You can read these pages straight
through. It is not assigned to follow and read the links.
- After the Jan 24 chat, view this one page Project
Proposal for Educational Technology Simulation (EL 7).
This is the project proposal for the simulation you just finished.
- After the Jan 24 chat, read and post a message in the COW Topic: Tech-Supported
Engaged Learning, Conversation: EL Reflection 1. The
"question" is in the first message in that conversation.
You can always view the first message, by clicking on the Read
All N link for that conversation.
- After the Jan 24 chat, Consider standards
(EL 52) you would like to address.
Brainstorm and post at least 3 possible topic ideas for your
project in COW
Topic: Tech-Supported Engaged Learning, Conversation:
Project Topic Ideas. These should be very short.
Example: "earthquakes, civil war, water pollution, social
security". One posting per group working on the same
project is all that is needed. Please list all the names of the
people in your project group on your posting.
- Be ready to share and develop your topic ideas and provide
feedback for your colleagues' topic ideas in the Jan 31 chat.
In particular, be thinking about learner outcomes, authentic
task, hook, opportunities for student direction, and how technology
might be used to communicate and collaborate. You do not need
to write this information out yet.
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Sun Feb 4
Midnight |
- Read your colleagues reflections
on working as a team (from Jan 24 chat).
- Based on feedback in the Jan 31 chat and from your facilitators,
select two of your topic ideas and post one proposal for each
of them. Please follow these guidelines.
- Your proposals should be for projects that you can use
with your own "students". Your "students"
may be K-12, adults, or pre-service teachers. We want this to
be something that is useful to you in your current job, rather
than just an exercise. If you are a resource teacher (tech coordinator,
science specialist, library staff, ...) you can either create
a project for the adult teachers you work with or partner with
a classroom teacher. If you partner with a classroom teacher,
please arrange to team-teach the project with your partner so
that you will have first-hand experience facilitating an engaged
learning project with students. This experience is indispensable
when you continue on to become a LInC facilitator.
- Post your proposals in the COW
Topic: Proposals. Create one new conversation and post
both of your project proposals to that same one new conversation.
Use your group's name as the title of your posting. (Example:
Woodrow team, SCSU elementary team, ...)
- You can copy and paste from this
proposal template (EL 57) to get started.
- If you want to see some examples, take another look at the "After"
project proposals (EL 34) that you read for last week.
- The two proposals should be about different topics.
- The two proposals should be short: about one half page in
length.
- We suggest you write your post in a plain text editor such
as Notepad or SimpleText first and then copy and paste it into
the COW. Do not worry about formatting such as bold, underline,
...
- One posting per group working on the same project is all
that is needed. Please list all the names of the people in your
project group on your posting. Clarification: If your
LInC team will be creating two projects, then you have two project-teams
"A" and "B". Project-team "A" should
make one posting with two proposals in it. Project-team "B"
should also make one posting with two proposals in it.
- Be ready to share your proposals and provide feedback for
your colleagues proposals in the next chat.
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Sun Feb 11
Midnight |
- Pick a proposal written by another LInC team.
Post one response (individually) in the
COW
Topic: Proposals replying to the same conversation
that proposal is in. Include in your response:
- a positive comment about something you liked
in that proposal
- one suggestion or question for the authors of
that proposal
(Note: If you notice one project-team already has a lot of
responses, please consider replying to a project-team that
has fewer responses.)
- As a project team, post a second draft of one of your
project proposals (or a new proposal if you have discussed
this with your facilitator) in the
COW
based on feedback and ideas from your colleagues and
your facilitator. Post in Topic: Proposals.
Use the same subtopic you created last week.
- Read the following web pages. You can read the pages
straight through. It is not assigned to follow and
read the links.
- Download
FETCH (for Mac users) (TS 51) or
WS_FTP (for PC users) (TS 61) if you do not already have
this software on your computer. Some people already have
this software. Both programs are free for educators.
- Download
ShockWave (TS 70). If it doesn't work, don't spend much
time on it. Instead request "shockwave" as one of the topics
you want for a chat break-out session.
- Post a message in the
COW
Topic: Chat Break-Out Sessions,
Subtopic: Suggest Topics for Feb 14 Online Chat.
Please suggest three topics that will help you make
progress on your project.
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Sun Feb 18
Midnight |
- As a project team, post your latest
project proposal in the
COW
based on feedback from your facilitator.
Post in Topic: Proposals.
Use the same subtopic you have been using.
- If your proposal has been approved, start working on one
project component (presentation page, unit description before LInC,
scenario page, or rubric). You do not need
to turn this in yet. Use the
Resources for Developing Project Components section of the
assignment sheet as needed for information about each component.
- Read the Getting
Started Writing Web Pages (TS 72) tutorial.
- Read the File
and Folder Naming Guidelines (TS 80) before the next chat
and come prepared to discuss what you have read.
- Upload your proposal to the Fermilab web server by following these steps:
- View the
Shockwave animations for Fetch (Mac users) or WS_FTP (PC users).
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Download the LInC Project templates folder (TS 73, TS 50, TS 53 or TS 63)
onto your computer.
- Change the name of the folder you downloaded from "templates" to a short
name for your project such as: diversity, trail, wetlands, earthquakes, weather,
seniors, futurelearning, herbs, native, survival, aviation, rivers, genetics, ...
Follow the File
and Folder Naming Guidelines (TS 80) you read above.
This is now your project folder.
- Cut and Paste your latest proposal (plain text) into the proposal.txt
file in your project folder. Keep the name "proposal.txt".
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Upload your project folder (TS 78, TS 55 or TS 65) including
the proposal.txt file with your proposal to the Fermilab web server.
You will be sent an e-mail with the password information needed
to do this.
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Figure out the URL for your project proposal on the web
(TS 78, TS 50, TS 58) and view it using your web browser.
You can always check your work this way.
- Read the list of
Shockwave animations available for your Web editor. (Click on
the name of the Web editor you are using.) You do not need to view
the animations now, but make a mental note of what animations are
available so you can view them as needed to create your web pages.
- Read Writing
the Student Pages (EL 76). Take 45 min to browse the examples.
When browsing, look for:
- What "sections" or "categories of information" are provided
in the projects to help students? (i.e. items in navigation bar
for students or the main "headings" on the pages)
- How do these pages provide guidance for students without
dictating a step-by-step solution for students?
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Resources for Development of Project Components
Use the following resources as needed to make progress on your project.
Please see the
Guidance for Development of Project Components page. This
has been put on a it's own page to shorten this assignment page.
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Presentation Page
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Scenario
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Web Pages for Students
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Assessment
Unit Description Before LInC
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Web Authoring Resources
Staff Development Plan
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File Transfer Resources
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Sun Feb 25
Midnight |
- Turn in a draft of one project component by using FTP to
transfer your project folder and file to the web server. The
component may be in plain text or a web page. Text files should
end in .txt, web page (html) files should end in .html.
E-mail your facilitator to let him/her know which component
you uploaded and whether you wish to have them score your
component with a LInC rubric. Tip: If you are having trouble
getting started, try copying and pasting your proposal content
into the appropriate sections of the "presentation/summary"
page. Because you have finished your proposal, you are already
~75% done with the content for your "presentation/summary" page.
- Post a message in the
COW
Topic: Chat Break-Out Sessions,
Subtopic: Suggest Topics for Feb 28 Online Chat.
Please suggest three topics that will help you make
progress on your project.
- Review this assignment from last week. Project Web pages for students
will be discussed during this week's chat.
Read Writing
the Student Pages (EL 76). Take 45 min to browse the examples.
When browsing, look for:
- What "sections" or "categories of information" are provided
in the projects to help students? (i.e. items in navigation bar
for students or the main "headings" on the pages)
- How do these pages provide guidance for students without
dictating a step-by-step solution for students?
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Sun March 4
Midnight |
- Turn in a draft of one project component by using FTP to
transfer your project folder and file to the web server. The
component may be in plain text or a web page. Text files should
end in .txt, web page (html) files should end in .html.
E-mail your facilitator to let him/her know which component
you uploaded and whether you wish to have them score your
component with a LInC rubric.
- After the chat, post a message (as a project-team) in the
COW
Topic: Technology-supported Engaged Learning,
Subtopic: Web Pages for Students.
Post a short list of the "sections" you think you will need
to create for your project's web pages for students.
- Post a message in the
COW
Topic: Chat Break-Out Sessions,
Subtopic: Suggest Topics for March 7 Online Chat.
Please suggest three topics that will help you make
progress on your project.
- Reply by e-mail to the LInC evaluation I e-mail message.
- Read the information needed
for your LInC Partnership Program Plan for 2001/2002.
You can use your browser's File menu, Save As
to save this file into your project folder in Source
or Source Code format.
We are doing this assignment instead of the usual
Staff Development Plan.
- Read the following web pages (about 25 pages total).
These were U.S. mailed to you in hard copy.
- Post a message in the COW
Topic: Staff Development, Subtopic: Reflection on Readings.
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Sun March 11
Midnight |
- Turn in a draft of one project component by using FTP to
transfer your project folder and file to the web server.
E-mail your facilitator to let him/her know which component
you uploaded and whether you wish to have them score your
component with a LInC rubric. Be ready to present your work
so far (the drafts of the components you have turned in)
to your colleagues in the next chat.
As you are doing each component, please refer to the
resources on each component
for guidance and examples. Also, please take advantage of
the Shockwave animations for
Dreamweaver and
Composer
for help with how to use the Web editors.
- Read the middle column of this
LInC Partnership Program Plan for an example
of what a roll-out plan might look like.
- Post a message in the
COW
Topic: Chat Break-Out Sessions,
Subtopic: Suggest Topics for March 14 Online Chat.
Please suggest three topics that will help you make
progress on your project or staff development plan.
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Sun March 18
Midnight |
- Please review the web page on
Group and Individual Project Work.
(This was also sent via e-mail on Feb 12.)
- Turn in a draft of one project component by using FTP to
transfer your project folder and file to the web server.
E-mail your facilitator to let him/her know which component
you uploaded and whether you wish to have them score your
component with a LInC rubric.
As you are doing each component, remember that there are
resources for each component
with guidance and examples. Looking at the guidance and
examples may answer some questions and help get your
ideas flowing. This includes the
Presentation Page,
Scenario,
Student Pages,
Assessment Rubric,
Unit Description Before LInC, and
Staff Development Plan.
Also remember that you can get help on technical skills and
individual issues at office hours on Monday or Tuesday this week.
If you have asked for a break-out group topic that others
have not asked for, office hours is a great time to get
these questions addressed.
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Sun March 25
Midnight |
- Post a message in the
COW
Topic: Chat Break-Out Sessions,
Subtopic: Suggest Topics for March 28 Online Chat.
Please suggest
four
topics that will help you make
progress on your project or staff development plan.
Post your topic choices by
Saturday at 3 p.m. Central.
- Continue working on your project components and uploading
drafts to the Fermilab web server. E-mail your facilitator to
let him/her know which component you uploaded and whether you
wish to have them score your component with a LInC rubric.
Please start writing your components in web page format using
the LInC templates if you have been writing in plain text format
so far. Once you have
downloaded the templates folder and renamed it
to be your project folder, you can do this by launching your
web editor and using FILE menu OPEN to find and open any of
the files in your project/template folder.
As you are doing each component, please refer to the
resources on each component
for guidance and examples. Also, please take advantage of
the Shockwave animations for
Dreamweaver,
Composer, and
FrontPage for help with how to use the Web editors.
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Sun April 1
Midnight |
- Continue working on your project components and uploading
web pages to the Fermilab web server. E-mail your facilitator to
let him/her know which component you uploaded and whether you
wish to have them score your component with a LInC rubric.
Be sure to upload your latest web pages
for students to the Fermilab web server because your colleagues
will be viewing and assessing them during the next chat.
- Review the
LInC project rubric. You will need to be familiar with it so you can
assess one of your colleague's projects during the next chat.
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Sun April 8
Midnight |
- Read the
File and Folder Naming Guidelines.
- As a project-team, submit the
LInC project rubric for one of your colleague's projects.
You will be given an hour to work on this and the name of the
project to assess during the April 4 chat.
- Continue working on your project components and uploading
web pages to the Fermilab web server. E-mail your facilitator to
let him/her know which component you uploaded and whether you
wish to have them score your component with a LInC rubric.
The following teams should be ready to
present their final project at the April 11 chat: aviation, earthquakes,
floodingrivers, futureschool, library, and survivor
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Sun April 15
Midnight |
People who are presenting on April 18:
- Continue working on your project components and uploading
web pages to the Fermilab web server. Be ready to present your
final project at chat on the 18th.
People who are presenting on April 11:
- Please fill out the LInC Evaluation Forms
after your presentation.
(They are due on Sunday.)
The second one is long. The rest are much shorter.
You can fill them out on different days if you like.
We really use these to improve the course and materials
which you can then use for your LInC courses.
We appreciate your time in completing them!
When you submit, a new browser window will pop up showing the results.
If it says in red at the top "Your form was successfully submitted ...",
You are all set. You can print this out if you want a copy.
If it shows an "Error" instead, move the new window aside
(but do not minimize it) so you can see your original browser window with
all your answers still there. You should not need to fill the form out
from scratch, just make the needed edits and press submit again.
Then look in the same results window as before to see the success message.
On these forms, please choose "Fermilab, IL" as your group and remember to
fill in the last 4 digits of your social security so we can credit your work.
Your facilitator will not see these forms until after grades are turned in.
Thanks!
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Sun April 22
Midnight |
- Upload any remaining revisions to components by April 22.
(last day to update before grading starts)
- Please fill out the LInC Evaluation Forms
after your presentation.
(They are due on Sunday.)
The second one is long. The rest are much shorter.
You can fill them out on different days if you like.
We really use these to improve the course and materials
which you can then use for your LInC courses.
We appreciate your time in completing them!
When you submit, a new browser window will pop up showing the results.
If it says in red at the top "Your form was successfully submitted ...",
You are all set. You can print this out if you want a copy.
If it shows an "Error" instead, move the new window aside
(but do not minimize it) so you can see your original browser window with
all your answers still there. You should not need to fill the form out
from scratch, just make the needed edits and press submit again.
Then look in the same results window as before to see the success message.
On these forms, please choose "Fermilab, IL" as your group and remember to
fill in the last 4 digits of your social security so we can credit your work.
Your facilitator will not see these forms until after grades are turned in.
Thanks!
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